| AOC calls Alabama's abortion ban 'a brutal form of oppression' Posted: 16 May 2019 08:21 AM PDT  "Abortion bans aren't just about controlling women's bodies," Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, D-N.Y., tweeted. "They're about controlling women's sexuality. Owning women."
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| He told her to be 'nicer' and she pushed him off a bus, authorities say. He died a month later Posted: 16 May 2019 09:03 AM PDT  Las Vegas police released video of a woman pushing a 74-year-old man off a bus, asking witnesses to come forward and describe the alleged murder.
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| William Barr Delivers Chilling Message to FBI for Trump Posted: 14 May 2019 02:39 PM PDT  Photo Illustration by Lyne Lucien/The Daily Beast/Photos from Getty/APIf you come at the king, you best not miss. That's the message Attorney General William Barr is sending to FBI agents, whether intentionally or not. Barr has authorized yet another investigation into the FBI's conduct probing links between Russian election interference and the Trump campaign. Even though two other entities are already investigating the same matter, reports indicate that Barr has appointed Connecticut U.S. Attorney John Durham to investigate the origins of the Russia probe. In doing so, Barr is playing into the hands of President Donald Trump, who has already characterized Durham's assignment as an investigation into "how that whole hoax got started." The most charitable interpretation of Barr's behavior in defense of Trump is that he believes strongly in a "unitary executive," where the president can order any investigation he wants. But in his quest to protect the presidency, Barr is damaging our national security. His complicity in Trump's efforts to disparage the FBI will make it more difficult for agents to do their jobs and could discourage investigations of those in power. Certainly, the FBI, like any other government agency, should be subject to scrutiny. If you were to ask most FBI agents about internal investigations, they would tell you that they welcome such probes when done in good faith because they ensure not only accountability but also public trust. Following the FBI's aggressive surveillance of civil rights activists and war protesters in the 1960s and '70s, safeguards and approval requirements were created to prevent such abuses. The Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court was created to provide independent oversight of wiretaps conducted in the name of national security. The Domestic Investigations Operations Guide was created to provide detailed operational and approval requirements for each investigative step. FBI personnel are subject to DOJ's Office of Professional Responsibility, which investigates allegations of misconduct. The FBI also has its own inspection division to conduct routine audits of compliance with polices and practices. But the current outcry about the use of FISA surveillance and informants to investigate Russian interference in the 2016 election is not sufficient predication for a criminal investigation. Those techniques are routinely and appropriately used in counterintelligence investigations against foreign adversaries. Former FBI general counsel James Baker has been speaking out about the FBI's work on the Russia investigation, stating that the investigation was not a "coup" against President Trump, but instead was "about Russia. It was always about Russia. Full stop." Failing to investigate Russian interference would have been a breach of the FBI's duty. Even use of the so-called Steele dossier in the FISA application for surveillance of Trump campaign adviser Carter Page is not the scandal that some describe. The dossier, compiled by a former British intelligence agent to be used as opposition research by Hillary Clinton's campaign against Trump, was properly described as such in the FISA application, such that the FISA court had complete and accurate information when it authorized the surveillance. Judges, including those on the FISA court, are capable of discounting information based on potential biases as long as they are disclosed in the application, as they were here. In addition, material from the Steele dossier provided only a portion of the facts included in the 66-page application that was used to establish probable cause to obtain surveillance authorization from the FISA court. Renewals of the application were approved from Trump-appointed Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein. There is no evidence in the public record that the FBI abused the FISA process in this investigation. Nonetheless, last year, then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions asked DOJ Inspector General Michael Horowitz to investigate potential abuses in the FISA process following complaints by Republican lawmakers. Sessions later asked Utah U.S. Attorney John Huber to pursue any criminal conduct relating to the same matter, along with other matters relating to Clinton. It is unclear why Barr does not simply await those results rather than appoint a new prosecutor to undertake another investigation. If Barr had wanted to expand the scope of the prior investigations, he could have done so without appointing a new investigator. If he were simply replacing Huber with Durham, who, by all accounts is a highly respected and experienced investigator, then he should say so. Forget Roy Cohn, Future Presidents Would Ask 'Where's My Bill Barr?'Instead, Barr has created the appearance that he is launching another investigation to appease Trump. But there is a significant downside to such a tactic. Barr's appointment of Durham advances the Trump narrative that the FBI is run by a "deep state" that is engaged in a witch hunt and a hoax. Barr has already contributed to the partisan conspiracy theory with the language he used at his press conference to announce the release of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report in April. Barr repeatedly used Trump's talking point of "no collusion," a term Mueller specifically said he was avoiding. Barr made things worse in his subsequent congressional testimony, when he used the word "spying" to describe the FBI's tactics in the Russia probe. Despite his protestations that the word is not a pejorative term, and that "spying" is a word used by the media, it is not a word that government officials use to describe court-authorized surveillance. Contrast Barr's performances with the recent congressional testimony of FBI Director Christopher Wray. Wray rejected Barr's use of the term "spying" as "not the term I would use." Wray also stated that he did not have any evidence of any illegal surveillance into the Trump campaign. Trump responded by tweeting: "The FBI has no leadership . . . The Director is protecting the same gang . . . that tried to . . . overthrow the President through an illegal coup."Even after seeing this treatment, Barr continues to appease Trump, who campaigns on the narrative that he is victim of the deep state. Trump has called the FBI "a disgrace" that is "in tatters." Harming the reputation of the FBI will make it more difficult for the FBI do the important work it does every day. When an agent knocks on a door for tips in a kidnaping case, will the resident help someone from an agency the president has warned him about? When an FBI agent testifies at the trial of a sex trafficker, will a juror trust that he is telling the truth? By disparaging the FBI, the president makes our country less safe. Barr is compounding the problem by contributing to this false narrative. In addition to harming the effectiveness of the FBI, Barr's complicity in Trump's tactics may also have a chilling effect. By advancing the "investigate the investigators" mantra, Barr may cause the FBI to flinch next time it perceives a threat from powerful people within the government. He is incentivizing the FBI to sit idly by in the face of national security threats. The risk is that under Barr's leadership, the FBI's new motto might become "he who does nothing does nothing wrong." Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Disabled man rebukes Southwest Airlines for failing to accommodate his medical device Posted: 15 May 2019 04:40 PM PDT ![Disabled man rebukes Southwest Airlines for failing to accommodate his medical device]( "Disabled man rebukes Southwest Airlines for failing to accommodate his medical device") A severely disabled man said that U.S. airlines do not provide appropriate lifts, so he brings his own, but Southwest still wouldn't let him fly.
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| India Claims It Can Track China's New J-20 Stealth Fighter Posted: 16 May 2019 02:36 AM PDT  The Indian Air Force has boasted its Su-30 Flankers have tracked J-20s on radar, but as stealth fighters often employ emitters called "Luneburg Lens" to enlarge their RCS on routine flights, and thus conceal their true capabilities, it's difficult to infer much from this either.In January 2011, the maiden flight of a large, dagger-like grey jet announced that China had developed its first stealth aircraft—the Chengdu J-20 "Mighty Dragon." Six years later, after several substantial revisions, J-20s entered operational service with the People's Liberation Army (PLA) Air Force.(This first appeared several months ago.)As radar-guided missiles from fighters and ground-based launchers threaten aircraft from dozens, or even hundreds of miles away, stealth capabilities are increasingly perceived as necessary for keeping fighter pilots alive on the modern battlefield.But just how good is the J-20? And what is its intended role? After all, America's first stealth fighter, the F-117 Nighthawk, was not even really a fighter and lacked any air-to-air capability whatsoever.
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| Thousands of Palestinians demonstrate to mark 'catastrophe' Posted: 15 May 2019 08:12 AM PDT  Palestinians protested Wednesday for the annual commemoration of what they call the Nakba, or catastrophe, when hundreds of thousands were expelled or fled during the 1948 war surrounding the creation of Israel. Thousands gathered at various locations along the volatile border fence between Israel and the Gaza Strip, while crowds also demonstrated in the occupied West Bank. Protests and clashes in Gaza a year earlier, which coincided with the controversial move of the US embassy to Israel to Jerusalem, had seen more than 60 Palestinians killed by Israeli fire but Wednesday's were far smaller.
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| Search for victims ends after mid-air crash of Alaska tour planes; probe begins Posted: 14 May 2019 10:13 PM PDT  Searchers found the bodies of the last two Alaska seaplane crash victims on Tuesday evening, after a hunt through the debris and frigid waters following a mid-air collision that killed six people and injured 10, officials said. The two missing, an Australian and a Canadian, had been among 14 passengers from a Princess Cruises ship who boarded two seaplanes operated by separate tour companies in the town of Ketchikan on Monday, the cruise line said. "This is not the outcome we hoped for," said U.S. Coast Guard Capt. Stephen White, offering the searchers' condolences to the families of the dead.
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| The Latest: AP sources: Panel, Trump Jr. agree to interview Posted: 14 May 2019 02:51 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on a subpoena sent to Donald Trump Jr. (all times local):
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| Woman survived Appalachian Trail stabbing by playing dead and hiking to safety, police say Posted: 14 May 2019 12:54 PM PDT  James Jordan, 30, of West Yarmouth, Massachusetts, faces murder and assault charges in connection with the attack late Friday and early Saturday.
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| Trump declares national emergency 'over Huawei' amid accusations he is risking 'devastating' conflict with Iran Posted: 15 May 2019 03:22 PM PDT  Donald Trump has been accused of "playing a very dangerous game" with Iran and risking dragging the US into a new war in the Middle East that could have "devastating" consequences.The warning came from Hamid Baeidinejad, Iran's ambassador to the UK, with the acting US defence secretary Patrick Shanahan tabling plans to send 120,000 troops to the region if needed as tensions soar between the two nations over economic sanctions and an increased American military presence in the Persian Gulf.A commander of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, Maj Gen Hossein Salami, later warned the nation is "on the cusp of a full-scale confrontation with the enemy".Meanwhile, President Trump has signed an executive order declaring a national emergency that will ban American companies from using telecommunications equipment made by foreign firms posing a national security risk to the US.The move – thought to be aimed at China's Huawei – comes as tensions flare between the two countries, with Beijing and Washington failing to find consensus on trade and tariffs after months of negotiations.In a statement, White House press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders said that the emergency declaration by the president is"part of his commitment to protecting the information and communications technology and services of our Nation."In the latest US immigration news, the Trump administration is planning to redirect Transportation Security Administration staff to the Mexico border, the TSA said Wednesday."TSA, like all DHS components, is supporting the DHS effort to address the humanitarian and security crisis at the southwest border.TSA is in the process of soliciting volunteers to support this effort while minimising operational impact," TSA spokesman James Gregory said in a statement.The announcement came as Donald Trump spoke at the annual Peace Officers' Memorial Service in Washington DC, where he denounced illegal immigration across the US-Mexico border.Please allow a moment for our liveblog to load
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| Google’s new travel portal will improve the way you plan your trips online Posted: 15 May 2019 04:06 PM PDT  Slowly but surely, Google has become a one-stop shop for everything travel related. Few sites (if any) offer a cleaner and easier approach to booking travel arrangements than Google, and now, a new travel portal for the web has made the process even easier. All you have to do to check it out is head to google.com/travel.While most of the functionality of this travel hub was previously available through Google's website, this unifies all of the various features and options into a single webpage where you can book flights and hotels, see all your upcoming trips, and scroll through all of the previous vacations and getaways from years past.This simplified hub made its way on to mobile devices more than a year ago, but if you prefer to book your trips on a bigger screen, you can now get the same experience while making travel plans on a desktop.> As you plan a trip, your research and reservations will be organized for you in Trips. As we continue to evolve Google Trips, we're making this information more accessible at google.com/travel, and in Google Search and Google Maps. We're also adding a few new features to make planning and organizing your trips easier.Building on some of the features introduced last year, Google now makes it possible to edit your trip timeline directly from the travel hub, and the ability to manually add reservations is coming in a few weeks as well. Google will also now show you the weather for all the days you are scheduled to be at a destination.Also worth noting: Hotel and restaurant reservations will be accessible in Google Maps in the coming months.
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| Texas police raid Catholic offices in sexual abuse probe Posted: 15 May 2019 05:20 PM PDT  Texas police investigating child sexual abuse on Wednesday raided offices of the Catholic diocese in Dallas, after alleging that church officials had not been fully cooperative. Police served search warrants at the headquarters of the diocese, a storage location and offices of a local church. The raids were connected to the investigation of a fugitive priest named Edmundo Paredes and at least five new allegations of abuse against other suspects, police said.
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| Kamala Harris likes the idea of Biden running — as her vice president Posted: 15 May 2019 11:47 AM PDT  The California senator flipped the script on worries that America isn't ready to elect a woman president.
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| Hungary will have to buy Russian natural gas if Exxon waits on offshore project -minister Posted: 15 May 2019 03:57 PM PDT ![Hungary will have to buy Russian natural gas if Exxon waits on offshore project -minister]( "Hungary will have to buy Russian natural gas if Exxon waits on offshore project -minister") Hungarian Foreign Minister Peter Szijjarto said on Wednesday his country would again turn to Russia for natural gas supplies if Exxon Mobil Corp has not decided by September whether to invest in a massive Black Sea offshore project. Romania's Black Sea reserves pose a potential challenge to Russian Gazprom's dominant role supplying Central and Eastern Europe, according to consultancy Deloitte. "Exxon Mobil can be the game changer in the energy supply of Europe.
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| A Toddler Detained at the U.S. Border Has Died After Weeks in the Hospital, Report Says Posted: 16 May 2019 12:22 AM PDT  The boy is reportedly the fourth Guatemalan child to die in U.S. custody since December
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| Alabama and Georgia Are Throwing Down the Gauntlet against Roe . Good. Posted: 15 May 2019 11:46 AM PDT  We are witnessing the beginnings of an anti-abortion legislative revolution in Red America. Two generations of pro-life activism, persuasion, and argument have yielded pro-life supermajorities in state houses across much of the South and Midwest, and they recognize the fact that we have reached a moment of legal possibility we may never attain again -- perhaps not for generations. It is possible (maybe not likely, but possible) that the Supreme Court could overrule Roe v. Wade, and these legislatures have chosen to go for broke.Good. While Alabama governor Kay Ivey ponders whether to sign Alabama's bill banning all abortion in the state, it's worth considering why this represents an important moment in the battle for life in the United States, why Alabama's bill (and Georgia's new heartbeat law) present the right kind of legal and philosophical challenge to Roe, and why now is exactly the time to make the challenge.Both Alabama's abortion ban and Georgia's heartbeat law contain a key provision -- they declare the personhood of the unborn child. This is a vital measure that is aimed directly at a key portion of the Roe v. Wade opinion. Late last week, I had a lengthy phone conversation with state representative Ed Setzler, sponsor of Georgia's legislation. He said his bill wasn't "waving its fist at Roe; it's answering Roe."Specifically, he pointed at a provision in Part IX of Justice Blackmun's opinion, where Blackmun states that if the "personhood" of the baby is established, then the pro-abortion case "collapses." The late Supreme Court justice was of course discussing the definition of personhood under the federal constitution. Setzler, however, notes that Supreme Court doctrine has long allowed states to expand constitutional liberties. They can establish standards of religious freedom, free speech, or due process, for example, that go beyond the First and Fifth Amendments. They cannot be more restrictive than the federal Constitution.In the abortion context, this doctrine traditionally has been interpreted to allow states like New York to protect abortion rights beyond the minimal threshold required by Roe and Planned Parenthood v. Casey. Georgia (and potentially Alabama) would be asking the Court to permit them to expand the constitutional liberty of the unborn child and to recognize the distinct human identity of the baby in the womb.In other words, Georgia and Alabama are saying: "We've read Roe, and we're making the very legal statement that Justice Blackmun says would fundamentally undermine the case for abortion. Under our federal system, we can expand the legal definition of life." While pro-life Americans can and do engage in good-faith debates about tactics, I prefer the most direct approach. Tell the Court what life means. Make the Court break the federal system once again.The timing is right. For two generations the Roe decision has distorted American politics. Millions of voters cast their ballots for president primarily to influence that president's judicial picks, and there is now a majority of justices on the ballot picked by presidents who openly ran on a pro-life platform. Donald Trump would still be the Apprentice host but for his pro-life pledges. Have 20 years of political activism been in vain? Have federal elections polarized to the point of mutual partisan hatred merely to decide whether doctors must have admitting privileges at a local hospital before they kill a child?It's worth knowing where the justices stand, and either way a decisive ruling has the potential to deescalate national politics for a generation. If the court overturns Roe, rightfully holding that the federal constitution is silent on abortion, then the battle turns to the states. In many respects local politics would rise in importance relative to national politics, and Americans would be able to express their fundamental values through the ballot box.If, however, Roe is upheld and the legal battle over abortion is reduced -- both now and for the foreseeable future -- to fights over far-more-marginal issues like admitting privileges, clinic regulations, and late-term abortion bans (that apply only to a small minority of abortions), then pro-life Americans would understand that presidents and judges have treated them like Lucy with the football: inducing them to vote on the issue that is more important to them than any other, only to protect the status quo. No longer could (or should) these Americans be manipulated into voting for candidates based on false promises. Instead, they could fundamentally reorient their strategy and resources away from the men and women who've failed them time and again.Yes, I know that in theory the justices could overrule Roe through, say, an admitting-privileges case. But why would they? It's axiomatic that when given the choice between broad and narrow rulings, the justices tend to default to the narrow. If the justices are unlikely to overturn Roe, they are especially unlikely to overturn while upholding an incremental law. After all, each and every incremental law the court is likely to review can be upheld without reversing Roe or Casey. The Court can simply redefine Casey's "undue burden" standard to permit late-term abortion bans or modest clinic regulations. In the absence of a bill that's incompatible with Roe, state attorneys general challenging Roe would be asking the Court to be bolder than their own legislatures.Finally, moral declarations have their own value, and through a combination of heartbeat bills and trigger bills (which dramatically restrict abortion in the event Roe is overturned), in recent months the elected representatives of voters in Ohio, Kentucky, Tennessee, Georgia, Mississippi, and now Alabama have decisively rejected the vast majority of abortions performed in their states. They have cast their lot on the side of life. They have decisively and dramatically illustrated how Roe has inflicted a serious injury on American federalism and American democracy.A judicially invented "right" is damaging the very fabric and premise of our constitutional republic. It's time for another fundamental challenge to the "right" to kill a child. Georgia has thrown down the gauntlet. Alabama may follow suit. Their laws represent the next righteous and prudent step in the fight for life.
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| White House says Congress has no 'legitimate role' in investigating Trump, rejects document demands Posted: 15 May 2019 05:46 PM PDT  The White House issued a broad rejection of House demands for records about Trump's conduct, saying it shouldn't 're-do' the special counsel probe.
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| Maleah Davis case: Missing 4-year-old's biological father shares heart-wrenching photos Posted: 15 May 2019 09:38 AM PDT  The father of a missing Houston girl took to social media to share heart-wrenching photos of his daughter amid a nearly two-week-long search for her
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| Poland cracks down on child sex abuse as priest film goes viral Posted: 14 May 2019 10:58 AM PDT  Poland's right-wing government on Tuesday unveiled plans to crack down on paedophiles by raising prison sentences to a maximum 30 years as a ground-breaking documentary on paedophilia among Polish priests went viral in the Catholic country. The proposed changes by the Law and Justice (PiS) government, which is closely allied with Poland's powerful Roman Catholic church, come just two weeks ahead of a tight race in elections to the European Parliament. "Paedophilia has been treated too lightly by our judicial system," Prime Minister Mateusz Morawiecki said after presenting the new proposals.
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| Hannity: Deep state is in deep trouble Posted: 14 May 2019 06:37 PM PDT  Barr taps U.S. attorney John Durham to investigate Russia probe's origins.
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| Global stocks bounce back as Trump downplays U.S.-China trade fight Posted: 14 May 2019 01:21 PM PDT  Fears that the United States and China were spiraling into a fiercer, more protracted trade dispute that could derail the global economy have shaken investors in the past week. The MSCI index gained 0.49% on Tuesday. Trump insisted trade talks with China had not collapsed, while China's Foreign Ministry spokesman said the two sides had agreed to continue pursuing relevant discussions.
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| The Latest: Texas Rangers to investigate police shooting Posted: 15 May 2019 04:04 PM PDT  BAYTOWN, Texas (AP) — The Latest on the investigation of a police shooting of a Houston-area woman (all times local):
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| 'Heartbeat bills' reveal extremist anti-abortion view that values unborn over women Posted: 14 May 2019 01:28 PM PDT  The anti-abortion movement pays lip service to caring for women, but there is only one thing they care about: the unborn. I care about all lives.
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| Iran will defeat U.S.-Israeli alliance, says defense minister Posted: 15 May 2019 12:16 PM PDT  Iran's military commanders said on Wednesday the Islamic Republic was on the verge of an all-out confrontation with its enemies and was ready to counter any threat. "Iran has the highest level of defense-military preparedness to confront any type of threat and excessive demands," Defence Minister Amir Hatami was quoted as saying by the Islamic Republic News Agency (IRNA). The United States has sent further military forces to the Middle East, including an aircraft carrier, B-52 bombers and Patriot missiles, in a show of force against what U.S. officials say are Iranian threats to its troops and interests in the region.
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| Top FBI officials were 'quite worried' Comey would appear to be blackmailing Trump Posted: 15 May 2019 06:29 AM PDT  Senior FBI officials were concerned then director James Comey would appear to be blackmailing then President-elect Trump – using tactics notoriously associated with J.Edgar Hoover – when he attended a fateful Jan. 6, 2017 meeting where he informed the real estate magnate about allegations he had consorted with prostitutes in Moscow, according to Jim Baker, the bureau's chief counsel at the time.
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| Pilots pushed Boeing to act after Lion Air crash: reports Posted: 14 May 2019 08:40 PM PDT  After a deadly crash in Indonesia, American Airlines pilots called a meeting to press Boeing executives for safety changes to the 737 MAX aircraft, US media reported Tuesday. The call for changes, which could have required the best-selling aircraft model to be temporarily grounded, were reported by The New York Times and CBS News after they obtained an audio recording of the November 27 meeting between the American Airlines pilots union and officials from the aircraft manufacturer. The 737 MAX 8 is currently grounded worldwide after the March crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 that killed all 157 people onboard and drew scrutiny to the new Boeing model's anti-stall system, which investigators believe may have brought the jet down.
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| Samsung insider teases breakthrough phone design coming in the second half of 2019 Posted: 15 May 2019 04:37 PM PDT  A Samsung insider who is perhaps best known for sharing details about brand new phones well ahead of their official announcements is back teasing that some sort of breakthrough smartphone design is coming in the second half of the year. It's unclear at this time whether he's talking about a Samsung phone or not, but the leaker did say recently that Samsung will be among the companies to deliver this brand new design.Ice Universe is the leaker in question, a constant presence in smartphone news. He posted the following Galaxy Note 7 images on Twitter teasing that a "better-designed phone" is coming later this year.https://twitter.com/UniverseIce/status/1128263015348953088The Galaxy Note 7 represents Samsung's biggest disaster to date. The phone was very well received, but then Samsung had to deal with a plethora of battery incidents, from explosions to fires. The phone was recalled and ultimately canceled, and Samsung had to deal with all the blowback. The Note 7 recall actually forced Samsung to delay the launch of the Galaxy S8 in early 2017, as it was still investigating the Note 7 and putting additional safety measures in place to prevent similar incidents from occurring in the future.No matter how great the Galaxy Note 7 design may have been, it's still a 2016 phone, and smartphone design has come a long way since. The Galaxy S8 was Samsung's first phone with an Infinity display. That screen morphed into the Infinity-O screen of this year's Galaxy S10, which is what we expect to see on the Note 10 come August.Samsung (and everyone else in the business) has tried to continuously increase the size of the screen at the expense of the bezels. Some did with it notches, pop-up selfie cams or slider phones. Others put two screens on the phone. And Samsung created hole-punch displays. The first foldable phones were also unveiled earlier this year, with one of them stealing the show back at the Mobile World Congress in 2019. So we already have smartphone designs better that are miles better than the Galaxy Note 7.How could Samsung or anyone else further perfect the smartphone design? The only thing nobody has done is to sell a phone with a selfie camera placed under the screen. That would be the perfect all-screen phone design, and something we expect to see in stores in the not-too-distant future. But is it ready for 2019?Ice Universe seems to know something we don't, and he's not sharing more details about it. However, since he's teasing it with the help of Note 7 pics, it's easy to assume Samsung is behind this new handset design, and that the Galaxy Note 10 could be the device he's referring to.
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| Top 10 Most Expensive Cars Sold At Auction Posted: 15 May 2019 01:06 PM PDT  How many are Ferraris, and what other makes appear in this list? Following RM Sotheby's Petersen Automotive Museum sale, even the cheapest here is over $20m. There are rumors of Ferrari 250 GTOs having sold privately for £35 million, perhaps £40 million, and we now know that one has sold for a claimed $70 million (£52m).
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| Celebrity chefs weigh in on restaurant industry future Posted: 14 May 2019 10:40 AM PDT  Giada De Laurentiis, Gordon Ramsay and Guy Fieri talk restaurant industry.
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| Polish lawmaker panned for excusing priest who abused girls Posted: 15 May 2019 09:28 AM PDT  WARSAW, Poland (AP) — Poland's opposition lawmakers demanded Wednesday that a member of the ruling party be excluded from parliament's work on new laws to curb sex abuse of minors, alleging he had tried to justify the actions of a priest convicted of pedophilia.
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| An abortion 'reversal'? The method is unproved, but Ohio lawmakers want women to consider it Posted: 14 May 2019 11:48 AM PDT  Republicans in Ohio want every women seeking a medical abortion to be informed of a method for abortion "reversal," which critics call unethical.
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| Dozens of shots fired into home of Colts assistant Posted: 14 May 2019 03:21 PM PDT ![Dozens of shots fired into home of Colts assistant]( "Dozens of shots fired into home of Colts assistant") Indianapolis police are investigating after dozens of shots were fired into the home of Colts assistant Parks Frazier over the weekend. According to the police report obtained by WRTV-TV, police found handgun and rifle casings in the street as well as a cell phone that may have been dropped at the scene. Frazier, 27, joined the Indianapolis staff in April 2018 as an assistant to head coach Frank Reich.
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| Trump's attempts to rally allies against Iran falls flat with UK official who says there's no threat Posted: 15 May 2019 03:33 AM PDT  As the Trump administration draws up war plans against Iran over what it says are threats to US troops and interests, a senior British military official told reporters at the Pentagon on Tuesday that he saw no increased risk from Iran or allied militias in Iraq or Syria.A few hours later, the US Central Command issued an unusual rebuke. The remarks from the British official — Major General Chris Ghika, who is also the deputy commander of the US-led coalition fighting the Islamic State — run "counter to the identified credible threats available to intelligence from US and allies regarding Iranian-backed forces in the region."The rare public dispute highlights a central problem for the Trump administration as it seeks to rally allies and global opinion against Iran.Over the past year, Washington has said Iran is threatening US interests in the Middle East, encouraging aggression by Shiite militias in Lebanon, Iraq and Syria, shipping missiles to Houthi rebels in Yemen and allowing its naval forces to behave belligerently in the Persian Gulf.All are concerns that have been levelled against Iranian forces for years."We are aware of their presence clearly and we monitor them along with a whole range of others because of the environment we are in," Mr Ghika said.But he said, "No, there has been no increased threat from Iranian-backed forces in Iraq or Syria."Intelligence and military officials in Europe as well as in the United States said that over the past year, most aggressive moves have originated not in Tehran, but in Washington — where John Bolton, the national security adviser, has prodded President Donald Trump into backing Iran into a corner.One U.S. official said the new intelligence of an increased Iranian threat was "small stuff" and did not merit the military planning being driven by Mr Bolton. The official also said the ultimate goal of the yearlong economic sanctions campaign by the Trump administration was to draw Iran into an armed conflict with the United States.Since May 2018, the Trump administration has withdrawn from the major powers agreement that curbed Iran's nuclear program, reimposed punishing sanctions on Tehran, demanded that allies choose between Iranian oil and doing business in the U.S. market, and declared the Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps a terrorist organisation.And on Tuesday, the State Department appeared on the verge of ordering a partial evacuation of the US Embassy in Baghdad as a heightened security measure, according to people familiar with the plans.The anti-Iran push has proved difficult even among the allies, which remember a similar campaign against Iraq that was led in part by Mr Bolton and was fuelled by false claims that Saddam Hussein had weapons of mass destruction.Secretary of State Mike Pompeo's efforts this week to recruit European countries to back the administration's steely posture on Iran are being received coolly.Federica Mogherini, the European Union's foreign affairs chief, called for "maximum restraint" after meeting on Monday in Brussels with Mr Pompeo, a proponent of the "maximum pressure" campaign against Iran.Iraqi officials said they were sceptical of the US intelligence that Mr Pompeo presented last week on a surprise trip to Baghdad. Mr Pompeo said the threat was to US "facilities" and military personnel in Iraq.In September, Trump administration officials blamed Shiite militias with ties to Iran for firing a few rockets into the area near the US Embassy in Baghdad and the US Consulate in Basra. There were no injuries, but Mr Pompeo ordered the Basra Consulate closed.Privately, several European officials described Mr Bolton and Mr Pompeo as pushing an unsusnewpecting Trump through a series of steps that could put the United States on a course to war before the president realises it. While Trump has made no secret of his reluctance to engage in another military conflict in the Middle East, and has ordered US troops home from Syria, his secretary of state and his national security adviser have pushed a maximalist hard-line approach on Iran. Mr Bolton, in particular, has repeatedly called for US military strikes against Tehran.Officials said Trump was aware that Mr Bolton's instinctual approach to Iran could lead to war; aides suggested that the president's own aversion to drawn-out overseas conflicts would be the best hope of putting the brakes on military escalation.A spokesman for Mr Bolton declined to comment.The Trump administration is looking at plans to send as many as 120,000 troops to the Middle East should Iran attack US forces or accelerate work on nuclear weapons, The New York Times reported. On Tuesday, Trump dismissed that as "fake news." "We have not planned for that," he told reporters.But he immediately added, "If we did that, we'd send a hell of a lot more troops than that."Some of the president's critics accept that Iran continues to engage in what US officials call "malign behaviour," be it in Yemen, Syria or the Palestinian territories. But they blamed the administration for aggravating the standoff with Tehran.."This is a crisis that has entirely been manufactured by the Trump administration," said Vali Nasr, the dean of the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies.He pointed to Trump's decision to pull out of the Iran nuclear deal in May 2018, coupled with the administration's failure to get any other nations to do so. "None of the other signatories to the deal were persuaded by the case the U.S. was making," Nasr said. "And that is because this administration's policy on Iran, at a fundamental level, does not have credibility."That lack of trust has proved to be a major obstacle in convincing allies that Iranian behaviour in the region warrants military action.And while acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan has carefully cultivated a more acquiescent stance to Mr Bolton's demands than did his predecessor, Jim Mattis, many military officials and congressional representatives worry about the escalating tensions. Mr Mattis had balked at Mr Bolton's request for military options against Iran after the rockets landed on US. Embassy grounds in Baghdad."Mr Bolton did the same with President George W. Bush and Iraq," Rep. Seth Moulton, D-Mass., an Iraq War veteran, said in a statement last week. "As someone sent four times to that misguided war, I have seen the costs of Mr Bolton's disastrous foreign policy in a way he never will — firsthand, and at the loss of thousands of American lives."One big worry is that the Trump administration has issued the most expansive type of warning to Iran, without drawing specific red lines. That has increased the chance of a military conflict over misinterpretations and miscalculations.In a statement this month, Mr Bolton outlined vague terms of what appeared to be conditions for military engagement, responding to what he said were "troubling and escalatory indications and warnings."He said "any attack on United States interests or on those of our allies will be met with unrelenting force." And he warned that the Trump administration was "fully prepared to respond to any attack" by the Iranian military or a "proxy" — one of the Middle East's many Shiite militias that are supported by Iran.Those militias often do not operate under direct command-and-control from Iran, and they have varying levels of allegiance to the Iran military.In Yemen's civil war, the Houthis are Shiite rebels who oppose a government backed by Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates and other Sunni nations. The Houthis' ties to Iran are murky. But the Trump administration labels the rebels as Iranian proxies, and Mr Bolton's statement left open the possibility that a Houthi attack on Saudi Arabia or the UAE — both US allies — could set off a US military assault against Iran.The hard-line tactics against Iran could backfire in two ways, said Ali Vaez, Iran project director at the International Crisis Group. If the sanctions crush its economy, then Iran could act with less restraint, he said. And if the sanctions do not work well, then some US officials will advocate military action, a move that Israel, Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates are likely to support."There will be people in Washington who will push for limited kinetic action against the Iranian regime to cut it down to size," he said.In statements, Iranian leaders have reacted with both belligerence and diplomatic restraint to a series of US actions that they see as provocative. In a tweet Tuesday, the Iranian foreign minister, Mohammad Javad Zarif, ridiculed Mr Bolton and three anti-Iran foreign leaders in the Middle East as a "B Team."> In interviews in April, I predicted "accidents"—not because I'm a genius— but because B_Team is so brazenly following @AmbJohnBolton's script (https://t.co/beCZByEaCT). > After all, half of B-Team were co-conspirators in disastrous Iraq war. > Stark reminder https://t.co/ksCi9ntp85 pic.twitter.com/hpkGaap8aC> > — Javad Zarif (@JZarif) > > May 14, 2019"In interviews in April, I predicted 'accidents' — not because I'm a genius — but because B_Team is so brazenly following @AmbJohnBolton's script," Zarif said. "After all, half of B-Team were co-conspirators in disastrous Iraq war."The New York Times
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