| After a family vacation in Italy, U.S. congressman's wife admits to misusing campaign funds Posted: 13 Jun 2019 12:57 PM PDT  The wife of a U.S. representative pleaded guilty on Thursday to federal charges alleging misuse of $250,000 in campaign funds and agreed to cooperate with prosecutors who are also bringing charges against her husband. The move by Margaret Hunter, wife of Republican U.S. Representative Duncan Hunter, came after she and her husband entered not guilty pleas in August 2018 that they spent campaign funds on items ranging from a holiday in Italy to Minnie Mouse ear headbands at Disneyland. The plea agreement recommends a five-year prison sentence, five years probation and a fine of up to $250,000, according to U.S. Attorney's office.
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| Pompeo Claims Iran Is Responsible for Oil-Tanker Attacks Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:47 AM PDT  The U.S. intelligence community has concluded that Iran is responsible for the oil-tanker attacks that occurred in the Strait of Hormuz Thursday morning, Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said during a press conference hours after the attack.Two oil tankers were attacked within the space of 45 minutes in the Gulf of Oman, off of the coast of Iran, where four oil tankers were similarly attacked last month by Iranian forces.Addressing reporters at the State Department, Pompeo explained that the assessment of Iranian culpability was "based on intelligence, weapons used, the level of expertise needed to execute the operation, recent similar Iranian attacks on shipping, and the fact that no proxy group operating in the area has resources and proficiency to act with such a high degree of sophistication."> BREAKING: Sec. Pompeo says the US blames Iran for the attacks on 2 tanker ships in the Gulf of Oman today. https://t.co/oAIxR89P7b pic.twitter.com/pdWBjgqYyS> > -- MSNBC (@MSNBC) June 13, 2019The tankers, one of which was operated by a Japanese company, were hit with torpedo-like projectiles near the water line, causing fires on-board that forced crew members to abandon ship. The attacks came shortly after Tehran rebuffed Japanese prime minister Shinzo Abe's attempts to deescalate military tensions between Iran and the U.S.The incident disrupted global oil-supply chains and caused prices to increase sharply, since roughly one-third of the world's oil flows the Strait of Hormuz. Tehran has repeatedly threatened to close off the strait in retaliation for U.S. sanctions that have cut off most Iranian oil exports and devastated the country's already-struggling economy.In describing the pattern of aggression that Iran has engaged in since the U.S. withdrew from the 2015 nuclear agreement reached by the Obama administration, Pompeo noted that 26 civilians were killed on Wednesday after Iranian-backed Houthi rebels fired a missile into a Saudi airport."Taken as a whole, these unprovoked attacks present a clear threat to international peace and security, a blatant assault on the freedom of navigation, and an unacceptable campaign of escalating tension by Iran," he said.Pompeo also criticized the Iranian foreign minister's suggestion that the U.S. might be attempting to frame Iran for the attack."Iran's foreign minister responded to these attacks today. He said sardonically: 'Suspicious doesn't begin to describe what likely transpired this morning.' Foreign Minister Zarif may think this is funny but no one else in the world does," Pompeo said. "Iran is lashing out because the regime wants our successful maximum-pressure campaign lifted. No economic sanctions entitle the Islamic republic to attack innocent civilians, disrupt global oil markets and engage in nuclear blackmail."U.S. representatives have been instructed to raise the attacks during a U.N. meeting Thursday afternoon, Pompeo said.
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| Joe Biden says he does not view ‘abortion as a choice and a right’ in unearthed video Posted: 13 Jun 2019 03:05 PM PDT  Joe Biden once said he did not believe abortion was a "choice and a right", according to a recently unearthed interview from 2006.Mr Biden, who has received criticism for his abortion positions as he leads a crowded and progressive 2020 primary field, made the remarks during an interview with Texas Monthly, acknowledging his stance on abortions had proved difficult as a Democrat."I'm a little bit of an odd man out in my party," Mr Biden said during that interview, which was uncovered on Thursday by CNN.He continued to note that he had voted against restrictions to abortion under Roe v Wade, but that he did not support public funding for abortions. Just last week, Mr Biden flipped his position on federal funding, and announced that he no longer supports the so-called Hyde Amendment, which prohibits the use of taxpayer dollars to fund abortion services.At the time of the interview in 2006, Mr Biden was running for president for the second time, and said that he recognised his stance would make things difficult for him. But, the Catholic politician continued to say he did not think of the procedure as a right."It's going to be very difficult," Mr Biden said. "I do not view abortion as a choice and a right. I think it's always a tragedy, and I think that it should be rare and safe, and I think we should be focusing on how to limit the number of abortions. There ought to be able to have a common ground and consensus as to do that."The issue has gained prominence in recent weeks after a series of states introduced and passed highly restrictive abortion legislation, with Alabama pushing forward with legislation that would essentially ban any abortions in the state.The laws appear to be aimed at getting abortion before the Supreme Court, with the goal of harnessing an increasingly conservative panel of judges there to overturn the landmark abortion ruling Roe v Wade, which essentially determined that abortion cannot be banned in the United States.In the meantime, most 2020 candidates have spoken out forcefully on the issue, calling in some cases for a federal law that would protection abortion rights.Mr Biden's campaign did not respond to a request for comment on the 2006 video.
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| The New Bentley Flying Spur Imagined Four Different Ways by Our Staff Posted: 14 Jun 2019 01:00 PM PDT |
| China probes FedEx after Huawei parcels misrouted Posted: 14 Jun 2019 09:16 AM PDT  China on Friday launched an investigation into FedEx for "failing to deliver express packages" to the correct addresses in the country, state media said, after the US delivery service misrouted some Huawei parcels. FedEx apologised earlier this month for the delivery mishap after Chinese telecoms giant Huawei said it was reviewing its ties with the package service over the incident. The US delivery firm said at the time that "no external parties requested that FedEx transfer these packages".
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| Top-rated Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs are down to $7 in this Amazon sale Posted: 14 Jun 2019 06:11 AM PDT ![Top-rated Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs are down to $7 in this Amazon sale]( "Top-rated Alexa and Google enabled smart plugs are down to $7 in this Amazon sale") Even though smart home devices are pretty much ubiquitous at this point, they're still often quite expensive. For example, a lamp with built-in Alexa compatibility can easily cost $100 or more! Of course, the smarter move is to keep using your regular old dumb lamp but plug it into the wall using a Teckin Mini Smart Plug. You'll get the same great Alexa controls that you would with a $100 smart lamp, but it'll only cost you $7.22 when you buy a 4-pack and use the coupon code EBS6C5V7 at checkout!Here's some additional info from the product page: * REMOTE CONTROL ----Control your electrical items via your phone whenever and wherever you are after downloading the FREE APP Smart Life as long as there is a network. Ideal for someone who can not move around very well and needs easy access to turn on/off a device. * VOICE CONTROL----Compatible with Amazon alexa, Google home assistant and IFTTT, control your home appliances with the smart plug by simply giving voice commands to Amazon Alexa or Google Assistant. No Hub Required, the smart plug SP10 works with any Wi-Fi router without the need for a separate hub or paid subscription service. * SCHEDULE & TIMER---- Get ready to have a smart home and create customized schedule to automatically turn on and off any home Electronics or appliances such as lamps, Christmas Lighting, coffee maker, etc * SET UP EASILY----Simply plug TECKIN mini outlet into an electrical outlet, connect a device to the Smart Plug, and wirelessly control your device using a tablet or phone. A secured 2.4GHz WiFi network is required. * QUALITY GUARANTEED----The Mini Smart Plug features a sleek new design that is FCC approved product. If you encounter any problem or need support, please feel free to contact us through following E-mail support.us@teckinhome.com or Amazon directly. We offer two years of warranty and replacement services and lifetime technical support services if the plug is defective.
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| Slingshot overturned on I-45 at FM 517 shuts down all northbound lanes Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:43 PM PDT  Crews are working to clear this crash.
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| Calm prevails in Memphis neighborhood two days after fatal shooting, amid police patrols Posted: 14 Jun 2019 03:07 AM PDT  Police helicopters and squad cars patrolled the Memphis neighborhood overnight into Friday morning where a young black man was fatally shot by federal agents, with residents appearing to heed calls for calm a day after sometimes violent street demonstrations. The man who was killed, Brandon Webber, was suspected by police of shooting a man in a violent carjacking in Mississippi earlier this month. Webber's death prompted hundreds of his neighbors to demonstrate in nearby streets on Wednesday night in Frayser, a working-class, predominantly black neighborhood.
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| On Painting Air Force One Posted: 13 Jun 2019 12:43 PM PDT  And so it has come to this.Two oil tankers were just attacked in the Gulf of Oman, presumably by Iran. The United States and China are facing off in a confrontation that is about far more than trade. The southern border remains anarchic and uncontrolled.And Congress is asking: "Can I get the icon in cornflower blue?"Here is the situation: The president of these United States gets from place to place in one of two Boeing jets designated "Air Force One" when the president is aboard. Jets wear out, and the U.S. government is commissioning a couple of new ones, which will not come into use until President Ocasio-Cortez takes over in 2025. The paint scheme is going to change from its 1960s two-tone blue to a more conservative and modern look that is — see if these colors sound familiar — red, white, and blue. The Washington Post is on the case, and reports that the new look will end up "featuring colors remarkably similar to his" — Trump's — "private jet." This is true. Trump's jet, seen often during the 2016 campaign, is, going from top to bottom, blue, red, and white. The new Air Force One will be white, red, and blue. In each case, the red makes up a narrow stripe separating the two larger color fields.Congressional Democrats are, of course, outraged: How dare this aspiring caudillo order a vehicle belonging to the government to be painted red, white, and blue! That's . . . un-American!Aesthetically, we dodged a national bullet, here. The new designs (there are a few slight variations under consideration) are perfectly ordinary. They are entirely respectable and unremarkable. Given President Trump's own Nero-by-way-of-Liberace personal tastes — the gilding, the fake Louis XIV furnishings, the golden toilet — things could have been a lot worse.Nonetheless, Congress has been roused to action. Yes, the same Congress that hasn't been able to muster a declaration of war for any of the many American military conflicts since World War II, that has allowed debt and unfunded liabilities to rise to ruinous levels, that has sat on its hands as its constitutional prerogatives have been usurped year after year by the executive branch — that Congress has sprung into action, with the House Armed Services Committee voting 31–26 to insist that any changes to the paint or interior decoration (seriously!) of new presidential aircraft require congressional approval."Additional paint can add weight to the plane," says Representative Joe Courtney, a Democrat from Connecticut. The government spends $2 million a minute on Social Security, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, and the gentleman from Connecticut is worried about the marginal fuel consumption necessitated — possibly! — by a little more paint on a jumbo jet. Representative Joe Courtney should resign in shame.So should Representative John Garamendi of California, who says the airplane is "a representation of the power of the United States, the power of the president. If someone wants to change its appearance, its scheme, then we ought to have a say in that." Representative Garamendi represents, among other places, Sacramento, where the violent-crime rate is about twice the national average. There are criminal-justice-reform proposals gathering dust in Congress, but Representative Garamendi has the energy to get his pants over his head about paint.This is the wrong paint discussion to be having. If we are to be governed by clowns, let them at least look the part.VIEW SLIDESHOW: Air Force OneI have a proposal of my own regarding Air Force One: Get rid of it. Lots of world leaders fly commercial. Tony Blair did, from time to time. Queen Elizabeth flies British Airways. Presidents of Switzerland have been known to take public transit to work. I'm not saying they have to fly coach — I'm not saying the president needs to be back there in last class, seat 34B — but it is unseemly for the chief magistrate of a republic to stage a Roman triumph as reimagined by P. T. Barnum every time he goes to eat a chicken dinner in Iowa.Red, white, and blue? Or white, red, and blue? Or blue, red, and white? If that is the national crisis of the moment, then we have indeed immanentized the eschaton, at long last.But maybe, just maybe, these jackasses have other business.
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| Trump blames Iran for tanker attacks but calls for talks Posted: 14 Jun 2019 09:43 PM PDT  President Donald Trump has blamed Iran for attacks on oil tankers near the strategic Strait of Hormuz, but he also held out hope that implicit U.S. threats to use force will yield talks with the Islamic Republic as the Pentagon considers beefing up defenses in the Persian Gulf area. A day after explosions blew holes in two oil tankers just outside Iran's territorial waters, rattling international oil markets, the administration seemed caught between pressure to punish Iran and reassure Washington's Gulf Arab allies without drawing the U.S. closer to war.
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| Pinterest Is Latest Tech Company Drawn Into U.S. Culture Wars Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:58 AM PDT  The anti-abortion organization, Live Action, and conservative activist James O'Keefe allege Pinterest targeted the group for its abortion stance, not for the reasons the company claims. The dust-up is the latest in a wave of conservative complaints of social media bias.
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| Here's what to know about about Chase's Marriott Bonvoy Bold credit card Posted: 13 Jun 2019 09:42 AM PDT  AOL Finance broke down the key points you should know as youconsider opening one of your own
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| The Next-Gen 2021 Nissan Rogue Compact SUV Looks Bigger and Boxier Posted: 14 Jun 2019 09:06 AM PDT  With new styling and revised underpinnings, this redesigned crossover should go on sale sometime in 2020.
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| Nissan considers giving Renault some seats on oversight committees - source Posted: 14 Jun 2019 07:12 PM PDT  Nissan Motor Co is considering giving its alliance partner Renault SA some seats on planned oversight committees after the French automaker expressed discontent with the envisioned governance reform, a source said. The two-decade-old partnership of Nissan and Renault was plunged into a crisis earlier this week, as the French automaker's demand for a greater say in Nissan's new governance system drew rare public censure by the Japanese firm. Renault, which owns 43.4% of the Japanese firm, signaled it would block Nissan from formally adopting an overhauled governance structure at a June 25 shareholder meeting - unless Renault received representation on new Nissan committees.
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| Utah man pleads not guilty to threatening US lawmaker Posted: 13 Jun 2019 04:05 PM PDT  A Utah man pleaded not guilty Thursday to a charge of threatening to kill a member of Congress during thousands of phone calls to the U.S. Capitol. Scott Brian Haven, 54, entered his plea to one count of interstate transmission of threats to injure during an arraignment in a federal courtroom in Salt Lake City. Moffat said Haven is a soft-spoken, mild-mannered insurance broker who has lived a crime-free life.
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| Far-right group in EU parliament doubles in strength Posted: 13 Jun 2019 10:16 AM PDT  The European Parliament's nationalist group will double in strength to 73 deputies in the new 751-seat assembly after last month's elections, MEPs said Thursday. The Identity and Democracy Party, formerly known as the Europe of Nations and Freedom Party, becomes the assembly's fifth biggest bloc, immediately after the Greens. "This group is from now on the first nationalist force in the European Parliament," Marine Le Pen, head of the French National Rally (RN), told a news conference in Brussels.
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| Trump tries to clarify stance on foreign dirt: 'If you don't hear what it is, you don't know what it is' Posted: 14 Jun 2019 06:58 AM PDT  The president said he would "absolutely" notify the FBI if a foreign power presented his campaign with "incorrect or badly stated" information about a political opponent — but he would want to hear it first.
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| Man being chased by officers falls from bridge Posted: 14 Jun 2019 10:17 AM PDT  Video from a police body camera shows a shooting suspect falling about 30 feet from a bridge in Tulsa, Oklahoma, as officers chased him. (June 14)
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| Southwest passenger 'bombarded by inappropriate photos' from stranger on her flight Posted: 15 Jun 2019 07:18 AM PDT  Here's a good reason for iPhone users to disable AirDrop while on planes: A Texas woman forgot and another passenger sent her unsolicited nude photos.
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| 6 paid iPhone apps on sale for free on June 13th Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:02 AM PDT  Looking to fill your iPhone or iPad with premium apps without having to pay all that money? Well you've come to the right place. We dug through tons of paid apps that went on sale on Thursday to find the six best freebies of the bunch. You'll find them all laid out below, plus there are a few more in yesterday's roundup that are still free downloads today.This post covers paid iPhone and iPad apps that have been made available for free for a limited time by their developers. BGR is not affiliated with any app developers. There is no way to tell how long they will be free. These sales could end an hour from now or a week from now -- obviously, the only thing we can guarantee is that they were free at the time this post was written. If you click on a link and see a price listed next to an app instead of the word "get," it is no longer free. The sale has ended. If you download the app anyway, you will be charged by Apple. Some apps may have additional in-app purchases. Subscribe to our RSS feed to be notified as soon as these posts are published and you'll avoid missing the sales we cover. War of EclipseNormally $0.99.> People say > \- Another great game from Game Stew - by DarkDjango > \- An excellent follow-up to the quirky Tower of Fortune - by Retr0spective > \- Fantastically retro - by Stumpyjay > \- Great minimalist pixel art. Sharp looking game - by ForestRayColson > \- Gonna buy tower of fortune just because its from the same guys!!!! - by Droskie > \- Hard as heck but wonderful! - by Admiral Snackbar > \- Just as fun as Tower of Fortune! And just as addicting! - by Juliet M > \- Original and fun - by 4ppleseed > \- The gameplay is much deeper than what you see on the surface. Can't stop playing!! - by MilkcanRocks > \- Very charming and elegant - by Ponder_Rosa> > Review > \- War of Eclipse is great - by 148Apps, 4/5 > \- ... a near perfect balance between casual distraction and hardcore game - by AppsHappens> > Appstore Customer Ratings > Average rating for all versions: 4.5/5> > \----------------------------------------------------------- > War of Eclipse is a retro style game that combines timing action, role playing, and adventure elements. You play as a captain who crashed in a battle but is saved by human survivors. As the fight against the aliens wages on you will unveil the truth about the war for the human world.> > Features > \- One button gameplay that is easy to learn and play > \- Retro style pixel graphics with detailed 8 bit art > \- Challenge high scores in survival mode and see your ranking in the world > \- Detailed tutorial and tips that are available at any time > \- 7 air battleships to build and customize, including one ultimate battleship > \- 7 endings to discover, see the story and experience the possibilities from different angle > \- 35 enemy types to fight; they will shoot, charge, and ambush you, and also bomb your base > \- Collect lost data that unveils the history behind the aliens and human world > \- Random equipment includes: 20 kinds of parts combine with 50 kinds of abilities and 10 LV upgrade > \- Different challenges during the battle, such as avoiding an ambush, battling in a lightning storm, and destroying the falling boss enemies before atmospheric friction burned you > \- 20 achievements to conquer!Download War of Eclipse Calendarium - About this DayNormally $0.99.> Calendarium is new, easy to use calendar which gives you a new way to discover many interesting things about this day.> > Calendarium combines calendar of historical events with times of sunrise/sunset, number of week, day, day length, moon phase and more.> > -- What our users think --> > " Fascinating!" - Snaarl> > "It is a great way to see the history of the day. I always learn something new." - Nancy Rohe> > "Use this app every day! Fun to learn new info from a wide time range of history." - M1d2i3v4> > "This is a trivia nerd's Nirvana, and a history buff's Beulah! Bravo! to the developers of this app!" - jmhillpresley > ------ > • 1 App in 3 Countries > • 1 Reference App in 40 Countries > • Over half million downloads > ------> > Features: > • On this day in history - Discover historical events and holidays and share it with your friends via mail, Twitter, Facebook or text message > • Sunrise and sunset time > • Planets View - Shows how all planets of solar system are aligned right now > • Week number, day number, weekday and year > • Number of days passed from 1 Jan and days left until 31 Dec > • Moon phase > • Day length > • Geographic coordinates > • No Internet connection required> > \-- Calendarium uses your location only to provide accurate information about sunrise, sunset times and length of the day. We do not store it in any way. Disabling location settings will disable only these features --Download Calendarium - About this Day Anchor Pointer Compass GPSNormally $3.99.> Never get lost again with Anchor Pointer! Save location and find your way back whenever you are. Anchor Pointer is a great location saver app for travelers, hunters, fishermen, outdoor lovers, or anyone who simply needs a tool to find his or her car in a parking lot. Anchor Pointer uses GPS as the navigation system so you don't have to be online to use our app. Download our app now and feel the convenience!> > "Anchor Pointer: The navigation app that Apple should buy" - Financial Review, May 2016.> > There are so many times we need a navigation app beyond the standard Maps or Google Maps. First of all, we will need a reliable navigation app when we're not connected to the internet. Maybe we currently don't have a data plan or we can't find the signal. We might also need an app to save location and find our way when there is no map available, such as in wilderness or in a very large park. This is why you need a navigation app that uses your device's built-in GPS system instead of internet connection. This is also the reason why we built Anchor Pointer. This location saver app will free you from a lot of frustration in finding your way back. It will also guide you when you are in nature where map apps are unavailable/unusable. By using Anchor Pointer, you don't need to rent expensive navigation equipment anymore.> > =============================== > TOP FEATURES OF ANCHOR POINTER: > =============================== > • Mark your location easily. We know that making such app should simplify your life and not let you do complex steps and that's why we developed a very easy to use interface. > • Give you a direction to your saved location easily and fastly within a few seconds. > • Uses built-in GPS function. You should activate your Location before using our app > • Accurate and reliable. > • Work even when offline. You don't have to be connected to a 3G, 4G or Wi-Fi internet connection to use our app because we have a smart offline mode. > • Share your location with friends easily. > • Smooth user experience. > • iCloud Sync - automatically sync saved locations with your other iOS devices.> > There are some reasons why you should use Anchor Pointer now:> > SAVE TIME - you don't have to waste time finding your car in a great parking lot anymore. You can also save a lot of time when you need to meet or locate your friends. Just share your location and they can find you easily.> > SECURITY - As travelers, we often get lost in a foreign country. Now you can save location (such as your hotel's location) and find your way back easily. Furthermore, you can easily meet and locate friends or family in a big park when there's concerts or other crowded events. 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WILL NOT WORK ON IPADS OLDER THAN THE IPAD AIR 1 ***> > Get 'Em is an action packed, first of its kind, open world free-roaming video game! Play as superhero crime fighting dogs, on a mission to track down the city's most ruthless gangster, save their dognapped friend, and make the police K9 unit! This is not your typical game APP. Get 'Em is a full-fledged video game, made for mobile devices!> > After Leila, a helpless Yorkie is dognapped, three best friends come together to find out what happened. You can start the game by picking one of 3 characters. Are you going to be Pump, the resilient Doberman, Bentley, the fierce Chihuahua, or Marley, the kind Beagle? As you accomplish more missions and get closer to tracking down the city's mob boss, you meet and unlock more dogs along the way! Not only can you play as many different dogs, but you can customize each dogs outfit, and enhance their powers!> > You have never played a game like this before! Get 'Em is fully indie-made, and will feature many different styles of gameplay, which will definitely tailor to everyone. Have you ever wanted to be an animal, in a big city? Have you ever wanted the ability to play a 3D cartoon or comic book like a video game? If you like first person games, guitarhero-style games, third person games, infinite runner games, top-down games, and open world games, Get 'Em is for you! If you love challenging games, dogs, action, adventure, and crime fighting, Get 'Em is for you!Download Get 'Em Pros n ConsNormally $0.99.> Pros n Cons - simple yet powerful decision helper.> > List all factors and set their importance. > List all options and assess them for each factor. > Options will be sorted from the best to the worst based on the assessments multiplied by importance of corresponding factors.> > Make the best decision!Download Pros n Cons NoLocation - Remove exif data from photosNormally $1.99.> "If you want to protect the privacy of your photos then NoLocation is a simple app that can help you with this. It's easy to use and the whole process only takes a couple of seconds." - appPicker> > "If you don't want to share your location, this is the app for you. It's remarkably easy to use." - AppAdvice> > Location data is stored in every photo you take with your iPhone. When your photos are shared on the internet, anyone that sees them can see exactly where they were taken. NoLocation is here to fix that problem. With just a few taps, you can remove that data. After the data is removed, it will automatically open the share menu so you can send it to the to the internet or your favorite social network.Download NoLocation - Remove exif data from photos Tweety Pro Widgets for TwitterNormally $0.99.> View your Twitter timeline, mentions, messages and even lists on the lock screen or inside any app to quickly get updated about the world around you with Tweety.> > Tweety adds a Twitter widget to your Notification Center so you no longer need to quit the app you're using or even unlock your device to check your Twitter feed. You can even favorite, re-tweet or open the tweet in the default Twitter app/Tweetbot/Twitterrific right from the widget!> > With Tweety you can see recent news, facts, quotes, mentions and everything on Twitter without even the need to unlock your device or quit the game/app you're using.Download Tweety Pro Widgets for Twitter
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| Hornets' Walker willing to re-sign below supermax terms Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:11 AM PDT ![Hornets' Walker willing to re-sign below supermax terms]( "Hornets' Walker willing to re-sign below supermax terms") Charlotte Hornets point guard Kemba Walker said Thursday that to stay with the team long term, he is willing to sign for less than the supermax contract terms he earned by being on an All-NBA team in 2019. The 2017 collective bargaining agreement projects that Walker's supermax contract would be worth five years and $221 million. The maximum Walker could make by signing with another team is four years and $140 million.
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| The Latest: Mexico migrant agency chief presents resignation Posted: 14 Jun 2019 12:10 PM PDT  Mexico's National Migration Institute says its top official has presented his resignation to the president. The institute said Friday in a brief statement that Tonatiuh Guillén thanked President Andrés Manuel López Obrador for the opportunity to serve the country. The agency did not say why Guillén was stepping down.
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| What we know about the Gulf tanker attacks Posted: 13 Jun 2019 09:43 AM PDT  Suspected attacks left two tankers in flames in the Gulf of Oman on Thursday, bumping up oil prices and further raising regional tensions triggered by a bitter US-Iran standoff. The ships were struck in the same strategic sea lane where four oil vessels were sabotaged last month in attacks Washington blamed on Tehran. In the early hours of Thursday, two vessels transiting through the Strait of Hormuz towards the Indian Ocean caught fire.
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| President Trump Invoked Executive Privilege. Here's the History of That Presidential Power Posted: 13 Jun 2019 10:00 AM PDT  From George Washington to Richard Nixon to today
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| 2020 Toyotas will automatically park and shut off Posted: 14 Jun 2019 03:58 AM PDT  Toyota Motor North America has announced that most models with a 2020-year designation will be equipped with both "Auto Shut Off" and "Automatic Park" features. To accompany this feature, vehicles will also gain the ability to automatically park with "Automatic Park," an addition designed to minimize roll-away risk. Both features will be available with "most" vehicles that have a 2020 model year designation.
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| The Latest: Death sentence for father who killed his 5 kids Posted: 13 Jun 2019 12:10 PM PDT  A jury says a South Carolina father should be executed for killing his five children. The jury unanimously agreed on the death penalty Thursday for 37-year-old Timothy Jones Jr. in the slayings of his children, ages 1 to 8, in their Lexington home in August 2014. Although Jones is heading to death row, South Carolina hasn't executed an inmate since 2011.
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| A Hydrogen-Station Fire in Norway Doesn't Mean the Fuel Is Inherently Unsafe Posted: 13 Jun 2019 11:04 AM PDT  Authorities are still investigating what went wrong, but some pro-battery critics are already using the incident as their own fuel.
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| Iran renews nuclear pact ultimatum amid tensions with U.S. Posted: 15 Jun 2019 12:49 AM PDT  Iran will continue scaling back compliance with a nuclear deal unless other signatories to the pact show "positive signals", the Iranian president said on Saturday as tensions with the United States escalated over tanker attacks in the Gulf region. Iran stopped complying in May with some commitments in the 2015 nuclear deal that was agreed with global powers, after the United States unilaterally withdrew from the accord in 2018 and ratcheted up sanctions on Tehran. "Obviously, Iran cannot stick to this agreement unilaterally," President Hassan Rouhani told Russian, Chinese and other Asian leaders at a conference in Tajikistan.
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| Check Out the Navy's F-35C (In Beast Mode with Hypersonic Weapons) Posted: 14 Jun 2019 07:00 PM PDT  The F-35As the Air Force in May 2019 deployed to the Middle East for operations targeting Islamic State in Iraq and Syria frequently fly in beast mode. Islamic State forces lack significant air defenses.The U.S. military could hang more weapons under the wings of its F-35 stealth fighters.(This article originally appeared earlier this year.)Lockheed Martin, which assembles the single-engine, radar-evading jets, in early May 2019 revealed a concept for a hypersonic surface-to-air missile that's compatible with the U.S. Navy's F-35C.Lockheed for years has been working with the U.S. Air Force and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency to develop the Hypersonic Air-breathing Weapon Concept hypersonic missile. "HAWC, which has so far been under development as a land-attack weapon, is set to fly for the first time before the end of the year," Joe Trevithick reported at The War Zone.> The artist's conception of an F-35C firing a HAWC derivative first appeared at the Navy League's annual Sea, Air, Space convention just outside of Washington, D.C., on May 6, 2019. The rendering shows the stealth aircraft configured to carry two of these weapons externally, one under each wing. ....
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| FEC chair rebukes Trump over statements on accepting election help from foreign governments Posted: 13 Jun 2019 05:31 PM PDT  Ellen L. Weintraub issues a forceful statement directed at the president.
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| UPDATE: Costco shooting: Suspect in custody after shooting leaves 1 dead, 2 wounded in Riverside County Posted: 14 Jun 2019 10:22 PM PDT  A shooting at a Costco Wholesale store in Corona has left one person dead and two others wounded on Friday. The alleged gunman is in custody, police say.
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| US considers more options for detaining transgender migrants Posted: 13 Jun 2019 06:33 PM PDT  The players, all clad in different colored jumpsuits, are transgender women awaiting the outcome of their cases while in the custody of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement. Immigration and Customs Enforcement is considering opening a second permanent facility where transgender migrants can be detained amid the influx of Central Americans crossing the U.S.-Mexico border. While transgender migrants represent a small fraction of those in federal custody, their numbers have grown exponentially.
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| GMC Releases Prices for Its 2020 Sierra HD Pickups Posted: 13 Jun 2019 06:54 PM PDT  From the base Sierra to the glitzy Denali, base pricing for the GMC HD Pickups spans a $30,000 range.
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| Tesla’s Solar Roof is incredibly sleek… and incredibly expensive Posted: 14 Jun 2019 03:04 PM PDT  Beyond selling cars, it's no secret that Tesla's overarching goal is to change the way the world uses and generates electricity. Hardly a well-kept secret, Elon Musk explained as much during the second iteration of Tesla's master plan."The point of all this," Musk wrote back in 2016, "was, and remains, accelerating the advent of sustainable energy, so that we can imagine far into the future and life is still good.""By definition," Musk went on to explain, "we must at some point achieve a sustainable energy economy or we will run out of fossil fuels to burn and civilization will collapse."In light of that, it wasn't all that surprising when Tesla in 2016 purchased SolarCity for nearly $2.7 billion. One year later, Tesla opened up orders for solar roof tiles designed to convert sunlight into electricity. Now without question, the solar roof tiles Tesla sells look incredibly sleek and are essentially indistinguishable from a regular roof. Price wise, though, Tesla's solar roof tiles leave much to be desired.Tackling this issue, Electrek relays some interesting information about a quote a prospective customer was given about installing a solar roof.> For a 9.45 kW system on a 1,862 square foot roof, Tesla is charging $64,634 for the solar roof, along with $10,050 for a Powerwall, and another $10,630 for roof and site repairs.> > It adds up to a shocking total of $85,314 for the entire solar roof system and work.> > The solar roof alone adds up to almost $35 per square foot, which is much higher than the $21.85 price Tesla first guided for the product.The report does make a point of noting that the roof in quest boasted a dense number of solar cells which likely added to the cost. Incidentally, Musk noted during a recent shareholder meeting that the company's next-gen Solar Roof will be priced about the same as a "shingle roof plus someone's utility cost" or even lower.
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| Apple could launch up to 7 new laptops later this year Posted: 14 Jun 2019 07:54 AM PDT ![Apple could launch up to 7 new laptops later this year]( "Apple could launch up to 7 new laptops later this year") This week MacRumors spotted that Apple recently registered seven unreleased Mac notebooks in the EEC database, suggesting that refreshed MacBooks and MacBook Airs are on the way. On the heels of the release of refreshed MacBooks Pros in May, MacRumors reported on Thursday that Apple registered seven unknown devices with the Eurasian Economic Commission that are likely updated MacBooks and MacBook Airs.
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| Venezuelans rush to Peru border ahead of migration crackdown Posted: 14 Jun 2019 11:08 AM PDT  Thousands of Venezuelans rushed to Peru's northern border on Friday in hopes of entering the Andean country before it imposes tough immigration requirements at midnight, as one of the hitherto most welcoming destinations for the migrants in South America closes another door to them. Venezuela's economic collapse under President Nicolas Maduro has unleashed the biggest migratory crisis in recent Latin American history, forcing countries like Peru - a developing nation of 32 million people - to grapple with an unprecedented surge in immigration. Children dominated the crowds of tired migrants who arrived at the Peruvian border town of Tumbes from Ecuador on Friday, ahead of the June 15 deadline for all Venezuelan migrants to have valid visas and passports.
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| Hong Kong suspends controversial proposed bill allowing extraditions to China Posted: 15 Jun 2019 01:00 AM PDT  Following days of protests and street clashes, Hong Kong's chief executive is prepared to suspend a controversial bill Saturday that would allow extraditions to mainland China, according to the city leader's advisers.
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| Trump says Iran is a 'nation of terror' but does not call for strikes after tanker attack Posted: 14 Jun 2019 08:28 AM PDT  Donald Trump called Iran "a nation of terror" on Friday but gave no indication the US plans to retaliate for the alleged Iranian attack on two oil tankers in the Gulf of Oman. The US military released a grainy video that it said proved Iran was behind Thursday's attack and allegedly showed Iranian forces trying to remove an unexploded mine from the side of one tanker. "They didn't want the evidence left behind," Mr Trump said. "They are a nation of terror and they've changed a lot since I became president." Iran has denied responsibility. Jeremy Hunt, the Foreign Secretary, said on Friday night that responsibility for the attacks "almost certainly lies with Iran". He had earlier warned that the US were in danger of stumbling into an unwanted war. "At the moment both sides in this dispute think the other side doesn't want war. The risk you have is that then they doing something provocative that leads to catastrophic consequences that weren't intended," Mr Hunt said. However, the Japanese owner of the oil tankers contradicted the US claims and said he believed the tanker was attacked by "a flying object" rather than a mine or a torpedo. Yukaka Katada, president of the operating company, did not say say whether he believed Iran was responsible. The US blamed Iran for Thursday's attack Credit: AP Photo/ISNA Iranian military boats were on Friday night preventing two privately owned tug boats from towing away one of the tankers, a US official said. While tensions remained high in the Persian Gulf region, the US did not appear to be planning any immediate military response to the attack, which came just a month after four other oil vessels were sabotaged in the same area. Speaking on Fox News, Mr Trump was repeatedly asked how the US was going to respond and replied merely: "We'll see." He repeated his hope that Iran would agree to return to the negotiating table to thrash out a tougher version of the 2015 nuclear agreement, which Mr Trump withdrew the US from. "I'm ready when they are," Mr Trump said. Iran has repeatedly said it will not negotiate until the US lifts crippling sanctions that have devastated the Iranian economy. "We will not negotiate with the United States," said Ayatollah Khamenei, Iran's supreme leader. "No free nation would ever accept negotiations under pressure." Meanwhile, 23 crew members from the Front Altair, one of the oil tankers, remained in Iran at the southern port of Jask, where they were taken after being rescued by Revolutionary Guard forces. Iranian state media released video of the mainly Russian crew saying they were being treated well. Video shows crewmembers of a tanker hit by suspicious blast in Sea of Oman who were saved by Iranian rescue teams and transferred to Jask port.SeaofOmanpic.twitter.com/XE2Nd5cynF— Press TV (@PressTV) June 13, 2019 The US Navy meanwhile took 21 crew members from the other tanker, the Kokuka Courageous, back to the ship so they could help tow it to port. The video released by the US military appeared to show a small Iranian patrol boat pulling alongside the Kokuka Courageous and removing an unexploded limpet mine several hours after the attack. The US said the Iranians were trying to dispose of evidence of their involvement. "It's not a great video and you cant see much detail it could but it looks like what the US says it is," said Richard Meade, the editor of Lloyd's List, a shipping intelligence agency. "The working assumption is that it was Iran and this footage points in that direction." The US also claimed that Iranian forces appeared to be racing towards the tug that initially rescued the crew of the Kokuka Courageous in an effort to pick up the sailors themselves. However, the USS Bainbridge, an American warship, got there first and the sailors were taken aboard. Javad Zarif, Iran's foreign minister, said the attack was carried out by what he called "the B Team" - John Bolton, the US national security advisor; Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister; and Mohammed bin Salman, the Saudi crown prince - in order to disrupt Iranian diplomacy. All three men have advocated a hawkish approach against Iran. "Unilateral US actions - including its economic terrorism on Iran - are solely responsible for insecurity and renewed tension in our region," Mr Zarif said. While Israel and Saudi Arabia are both archenemies of Iran, neither state has called for major military action in the wake of the oil tanker attacks. Mr Bolton was outspoken on the need to deter Iran last month but appears to be have reined in after Mr Trump grew frustrated with his rhetoric.
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| A Smart Buyer’s Guide to Light Bulbs Posted: 14 Jun 2019 06:00 AM PDT  See if a simple incandescent or WiFi-enabled smart bulb is the perfect pick for you.
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| The view from one of the last abortion clinics in Louisiana Posted: 13 Jun 2019 02:08 PM PDT ![The view from one of the last abortion clinics in Louisiana]( "The view from one of the last abortion clinics in Louisiana") Now, the man known in court documents as "Dr. John Doe 1" – or "Doe" for short – is ready to retire and wondering whether anyone will be around to take his place. There are one or two local physicians who might be willing to hack it – to risk judgment from their peers and neighbors, face hostility from antiabortion extremists, and conceal their identities from the public, as Doe has done for most of his career. "We're going to kind of face the point where [I have to] say, 'Look, if none of the other OB-GYNs in this state are willing to come up and step up to the plate, then too bad,'" he says one April afternoon after his shift at Hope Medical Group for Women in Shreveport, Louisiana, where he's performed abortions since 1981.
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