| AOC's first congressional endorsements reflect subtle shift away from outsider status Posted: 20 Sep 2019 02:00 AM PDT  Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez appears to be playing more of an insider game in some of her recent endorsements. But she's insisting her insurgency is focused on policy, not merely disruption.
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| School board reverses decision to ban cheerleaders' tribute to slain classmate Posted: 20 Sep 2019 08:50 AM PDT  A Wisconsin school board that was under fire for banning a tribute to a slain student at a football game has reversed its decision.
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| Texas man wanted for allegedly divorcing his wife without her knowledge Posted: 20 Sep 2019 12:32 PM PDT  A Texas man is wanted by police after he allegedly filed for and completed divorce proceedings against his wife without her knowledge.
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| Iran and U.S. Navy SEALs Are Ready to Battle in the Persian Gulf Posted: 20 Sep 2019 05:11 AM PDT  This happened once before.
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| On Kavanaugh and the FBI, time to investigate the investigation: Sen. Whitehouse Posted: 20 Sep 2019 02:00 AM PDT  Why didn't the FBI pursue tip-line leads and interview witnesses? As a US attorney, I wouldn't have made charging decisions on such cursory work.
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| History buff finds ships that sank in 1878 in Lake Michigan Posted: 20 Sep 2019 06:41 PM PDT  A diver and maritime history buff has found two schooners that collided and sank into the cold depths of northern Lake Michigan more than 140 years ago. Bernie Hellstrom, of Boyne City, Michigan, said he was looking for shipwrecks about 10 years ago when a depth sounder on his boat noted a large obstruction about 200 feet (60 meters) down on the lake bottom near Beaver Island. "I've made hundreds of trips to Beaver Island and every trip I go out the sounder is on," he told The Associated Press on Friday.
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| A historic first? Israel's Arabs could lead parliamentary opposition Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:59 AM PDT  Israel's Arab parties are set to be the largest non-ruling bloc in parliament - and could even lead the opposition - if a national unity government emerges from Tuesday's election. A surge in turnout gave the Arab-dominated Joint List 13 of the Knesset's 120 seats, making it the third-largest grouping behind Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's right-wing Likud party, with 31 seats, and Benny Gantz's centrist Blue and White, with 33. No party drawn from the 21 percent Arab minority has ever been part of an Israeli government.
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| Bill de Blasio's net worth as he pulls out of 2020 presidential race Posted: 20 Sep 2019 01:24 PM PDT  New York Mayor de Blasio announced that he is officially dropping out of the 2020 presidential race -- here's a look at his current finances.
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| Campaigning Trudeau vows Canada assault rifle ban Posted: 20 Sep 2019 10:16 AM PDT  Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, campaigning for re-election, vowed on Friday to ban assault rifles but fell short on handguns, saying only that he would help cities restrict pistols and revolvers in response to a spate of shootings. "You don't need military-grade assault weapons, ones designed to kill the largest amount of people in the shortest amount of time, to take down a deer," he told a news conference in Toronto. There have been 311 shootings in Canada's largest city so far this year, with gun violence having increased incrementally each year to almost triple the rate in 2014.
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| Architect Reinaldo Leandro on the Art of Building Design and Personal Style Posted: 20 Sep 2019 12:17 PM PDT |
| George Conway says Trump should be impeached if he pressured Ukraine to investigate Joe Biden Posted: 20 Sep 2019 10:48 AM PDT  George Conway, who is married to senior White House counselor Kellyanne Conway, said Thursday that President Trump should be impeached and removed from office "without delay" if it turns out he pressured Ukraine to dig up dirt on political rival Joe Biden.
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| 'This Is an Emergency. Our House Is on Fire.' Greta Thunberg Addresses New York's Climate Strike Posted: 20 Sep 2019 08:47 AM PDT  Organizers expect thousands to turn out, and 16-year-old climate activists Greta Thunberg is scheduled to speak.
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| High school sparks controversy over 'ridiculous' lunch: 'It's honestly sad' Posted: 20 Sep 2019 11:24 AM PDT  A Minnesota high school is facing criticism for serving a meal that many people have since called "ridiculous."
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| Officials: Political donor caused deadly overdose during sex Posted: 19 Sep 2019 10:31 PM PDT  Gemmel Moore had moved back home with his mother in Texas two years ago and was missing Los Angeles when he texted a photo of syringe in an arm to a wealthy gay man he knew in California. Buck bought a plane ticket for Moore and had a car pick him up a week later at the airport. Federal prosecutors released new details Thursday as they charged Buck, 65, with distributing methamphetamine resulting in Moore's death on July 27, 2017.
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| A car crashed through a Sears in Woodfield Mall outside Chicago and kept driving, injuring at least 2 shoppers Posted: 20 Sep 2019 01:07 PM PDT  A black SUV appears to have driven through a Sears into the Woodfield Mall outside Chicago, with police stating at least 2 people were injured.
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| 2019 Editors' Choice Awards: The Best Trucks, SUVs, and Vans Posted: 20 Sep 2019 10:15 AM PDT |
| Israel Could Not Survive Hamas' Missiles Without The Iron Dome Posted: 21 Sep 2019 01:30 AM PDT  Israel lives in a dangerous neighborhood.
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| Colt to stop making AR-15 rifles, weapon of choice in US mass shootings Posted: 20 Sep 2019 10:53 AM PDT  Legendary US gun manufacturer Colt has said it will no longer produce the AR-15, blaming market forces rather than the semi-automatic rifle's role in some of the country's worst mass shootings. "Over the last few years, the market for modern sporting rifles has experienced significant excess manufacturing capacity," said the company's chief executive Dennis Veilleux in a statement released on Thursday. For that reason, "we believe there is adequate supply for modern sporting rifles for the foreseeable future," he said, noting that his firm would continue to make assault rifles for the US military and law enforcement agencies, as well as its world-famous revolvers.
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| American Airlines Mechanic who Sabotaged Plane before Takeoff Suspected of ISIS Ties Posted: 19 Sep 2019 10:41 AM PDT  A federal judge denied bail on Wednesday to an American Airlines mechanic, who has been incarcerated since July for sabotaging a plane with 150 people on board, due to suspicions the mechanic has ties to ISIS.Abdul-Majeed Alani was arrested on September 5 and confessed to tampering with a Boeing 737 at Miami International Airport weeks earlier, grounding the plane before it had a chance to take off. He told investigators at the time that he was upset over a contract dispute involving a union, and decided to ground the plane so that he could obtain overtime work.However, investigators subsequently found videos of mass murders committed by ISIS on Alani's cell phone.In the Wednesday bail hearing, prosecutors announced that Alani has a brother in Iraq who may be involved with ISIS, and that Alani had previously expressed his desire for Allah to harm non-Muslims.Alani's lawyer requested bail to be posted at $200,000 but Magistrate Judge Chris M. McAliley denied the request, deeming Alani a flight risk.Alani has been a mechanic at American Airlines for thirty years and does not have a criminal record. He is a U.S. citizen.Court documents assert that Alani used a piece of foam to obstruct the plane's air data module, which tracks air speed and other critical flight data. Security camera footage from July 17 shows Alani tampering with the aircraft.The plane had left the gate and reached the runway just before takeoff when the pilots received an error message, after which they aborted the takeoff.
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| UPDATE 4-Iran says it will destroy any aggressor Posted: 21 Sep 2019 12:17 AM PDT ![UPDATE 4-Iran says it will destroy any aggressor]( "UPDATE 4-Iran says it will destroy any aggressor") Iran will pursue any aggressor, even it carries out a limited attack, and seek to destroy it, the head of the elite Revolutionary Guards said on Saturday, after attacks on Saudi oil sites which Riyadh and U.S officials blamed on Tehran. U.S. President Donald Trump on Friday approved sending American troops to bolster Saudi Arabia's air and missile defences after the Sept. 14 attack. Iran denies involvement in the attack, which was claimed by Yemen's Houthi movement, a group aligned with Iran and currently fighting a Saudi-led alliance in Yemen's civil war.
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| Jeffrey Epstein victim says Prince Andrew bought her vodka at a London club when she was 17 before having sex with her Posted: 20 Sep 2019 02:21 PM PDT  Virginia Roberts Giuffre, who has accused Jeffrey Epstein of sex trafficking her, explained how the late financier's close associate Ghislaine Maxwell coerced her into having sex with Prince Andrew of Britain.
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| Justices' DC sniper case examines teen murderers' sentences Posted: 21 Sep 2019 07:22 AM PDT  Lee Boyd Malvo, who terrorized the Washington region in 2002 as one-half of a sniper team, is at the center of a case the Supreme Court will hear this fall. At issue for the Supreme Court is whether Malvo should be resentenced in Virginia in light of Supreme Court rulings restricting life-without-parole sentences for crimes committed by juveniles.
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| '90s kids were asked to do 'simple things' to save the Earth. Gen Z is thinking bigger Posted: 20 Sep 2019 11:37 AM PDT  A 1990s book told kids of the "simple things" to do to affect the environment. Today, many say bigger changes are needed to stop climate change.
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| GOP Strategy to Shield Trump by Canceling Primaries Carries Risk Posted: 21 Sep 2019 03:00 AM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- The Republican Party's gambit to kill primary elections to ensure President Donald Trump's renomination may protect the president from short-term losses but has also put the spotlight on his challengers.Republicans in four states have canceled presidential primaries next year in an effort, they say, to save money.Given Trump's popularity within the party, it's unlikely the primaries would make a big difference anyway. But canceling primaries could result in more uncommitted delegates to the Republican National Convention next year, meaning they would not be pledged to Trump and could be less loyal if things go sideways."The attempts to stifle competition have backfired," challenger William Weld. "The Republican Party in Washington is working on voter suppression. I'm working on enlarging the electorate."Weld has spent the last six days campaigning in New Hampshire and had four cable television news appearances scheduled this week. "The dial-o-meter has dialed way up," he said.The former Massachusetts governor, who ran as a libertarian in 2016, has been courting others to join him as anti-Trump Republicans. Joe Walsh and Mark Sanford, two Tea Party conservatives who lost re-election to Congress, are also running."It seems more like a real primary than when I was the solitary standard bearer out there planting my flag," Weld said.Polls show Trump remains popular with the overwhelming majority of Republican voters. But his allies' fear of a runaway primary is founded in history: No modern president has ever won re-election after a serious primary challenge.Harry Truman and Lyndon Johnson dropped out after poor showings in New Hampshire. Gerald Ford, Jimmy Carter and George H.W. Bush all won renomination but were wounded by challenges from Ronald Reagan, Ted Kennedy and Pat Buchanan.And even though Weld, Sanford and Walsh don't pose the same level of threat to Trump, the state Republican parties in South Carolina, Nevada, Arizona and Kansas are preventing history from repeating itself by canceling their nominating contests."The logic behind the move was, 'Circle the wagons and protect the incumbent.' I get it," Sanford told Bloomberg Radio on Wednesday. But he said that move doesn't make sense if Trump is — as he claims — the most popular president ever among Republicans."If that is true, you would take the win. You would take 90% all day long, particularly in the first-in-the-South primary," Sanford said, referring to the primary in his home state of South Carolina. "It suggests that someone looking at the numbers is concerned, and that his support is a mile wide and an inch deep."Trump's challengers don't have to win the nomination to hurt his chances of re-election. Buchanan lost New Hampshire with 37% of the vote in 1992, but exceeded expectations and showed Bush's weakness on taxes and the economy. Buchanan went on to win only 18 delegates, but they earned him a speaking slot at the convention. Bush then lost to Bill Clinton in the general election.Two recent national polls both show that Trump's challengers are all polling at 3% or less.So Trump seems to be mostly ignoring them. Sort of. "I guess it's a publicity stunt," he said last week. "So, to be honest, I'm not looking to give them any credibility. They have no credibility."Trump has said he had nothing to do with the effort to cancel nomination contests in key states next year.Without a presidential preference primary, the unbound delegates could come back to haunt Trump in a worst-case scenario."They are basically free agents," said Elaine Kamarck, a Brookings Institution fellow and expert in primary politics."The more untethered delegates, the easier it is to break open a convention," she said.That's exactly why anti-Trump activists in Colorado moved to cancel that state's GOP primary in 2016, instead sending unpledged delegates to the Cleveland convention. Some of those delegates played a role in a short-lived attempt to derail Trump's nomination on the opening day.Once a party insurgent, Trump now has all the benefits of incumbency and appears focused on the general election. He has not campaigned in Iowa, and made one official visit to New Hampshire last month.Trump's three Republican challengers have different strategies for dealing with the canceled primaries. Walsh says he's redoubling efforts in the states without primaries."We're going to campaign in South Carolina, Arizona, Nevada, and Kansas, because I believe if we let these Republican voters know that the president of the United States just took away their right to vote, they'll march on the headquarters of their state parties to get that right to vote back," he told CNN Monday.Weld is focusing on 20 states with open primaries — meaning independents and sometimes even Democrats can switch parties. He's hoping that retail-level politics and his appeal as a moderate can win crossover voters in places like New Hampshire."I can campaign there as many days a week as I want, and always sleep in my own bed," Weld said from Boston on Wednesday. "I don't think Mr. Trump has an appetite for retail-level campaigning in New Hampshire. He'll probably hold a few rallies and shake a few hands and leave it at that."His argument to Democrats: "They can try to guess who's the strongest Democrat. But if they want to vote against Trump they can cross over and vote against Trump."To contact the reporter on this story: Gregory Korte in Washington at gkorte@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: Wendy Benjaminson at wbenjaminson@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Boy, 4, who was diagnosed with autism and cancer within months of each other beats odds Posted: 20 Sep 2019 02:05 PM PDT  A 4-year-old boy who was diagnosed with autism and cancer within three months has impressively beaten the odds
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| Russia Can't Stop Israel's F-35 Stealth Fighters Posted: 19 Sep 2019 06:00 PM PDT  Key point: The F-35 operates on another level that Russia's air defense cannot handle.
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| Tunisia ex-president Ben Ali buried in Medina: witnesses Posted: 21 Sep 2019 08:19 AM PDT  Tunisia's former president Zine El Abidine Ben Ali was buried in the Muslim holy city of Medina on Saturday, an AFP photographer said, after he died in exile in Saudi Arabia. Ben Ali, who died Thursday in the city of Jeddah, was laid to rest at Al-Baqi cemetery next to the Prophet Mohammed's mosque -- a place of great reverence for Muslims. Some of Ben Ali's family were to receive condolences on Sunday in an upmarket suburb of Tunis, according to a small notice published in Tunisia's La Presse newspaper.
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| Elizabeth Warren just issued the most scathing call for impeachment yet Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:18 PM PDT  Following new reports about a whistleblower complaint, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, a 2020 Democratic presidential candidate, sent out a series of tweets.
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| Epstein Victim: Ghislaine Maxwell Made Me Recruit ‘Youngest-Looking’ Girls for Epstein Posted: 20 Sep 2019 09:28 PM PDT  REUTERSVirginia Roberts Giuffre, the woman who says she was recruited as an underage "sex slave" for Jeffrey Epstein and trafficked to other powerful men within his orbit, revealed in her first on-camera interview that she was allegedly trained to find the "youngest-looking" girls for the wealthy financier. It all started when she was 16 and working as a locker attendant at Mar-a-Lago, she told Dateline NBC's Savannah Guthrie in an interview that aired Friday night. "I get approached by this beautiful, well-spoken, well-mannered woman with an English accent," Giuffre said. "She told me her name was Ghislaine Maxwell, and she said, 'I know this older gentleman who's looking for a traveling masseuse. He's super rich, he flies around everywhere. If you want, you can come by for an interview.'" Giuffre said Maxwell led her to Epstein, who was laying naked on a massage table, and that's when the two exchanged a "Cheshire grin," she said. "He smiled and nodded, as in, like, approval." Steven Mnuchin's Mysterious Link to Creepy Epstein Model ScoutREVEALED: We Found Billionaire Pedophile Jeffrey Epstein's Secret CharityGiuffre said even after Maxwell ordered her to perform sex acts on Epstein during their first meeting, she went back again because they'd promised they could help her become a real masseuse. She said she viewed dealing with Epstein at the time as a "necessary evil" to get out of a life of abuse and into a "normal life." But she soon learned that his "life revolved around abuse," she said. Eventually, she said Maxwell trained her to recruit new girls for Epstein. "Jeffrey was very particular in the kind of girls he wanted. First off, the younger the better." Epstein said that to her, Giuffre claimed, and "Maxwell said that too. During the training and telling me how to do it, she said 'You always have to go for the youngest-looking ones.'" Giuffre said she reluctantly brought other girls to Epstein. "It'll always haunt me." Several of Epstein's accusers have alleged that Maxwell served as the money-man's madam to lure new girls into his operation, though Maxwell has denied all allegations against her and has not been charged with any crime. Chauntae Davies, who has alleged she was raped by Epstein on his private island in the U.S. Virgin Islands, also told NBC that she was first brought to Epstein by Maxwell. "Just do whatever he likes and you'll be fine," Davies said Maxwell told her. Giuffre said she was expected to be on call for Epstein every day, all day. "I had to pretend like I was happy. You couldn't just be depressed around Jeffrey. You had to pretend like… like I told you, he wanted all of us to be his little Lolita." Several months in, when she was 17, Giuffre said she was instructed to start having sex with other men at Epstein's request. After flying to London, she said, "Ghislaine woke me up in the morning excited. And she said, 'You're going to meet a prince today.'"She said she first met Britain's Prince Andrew at a nightclub before being told by Maxwell to "do for him what you do for Epstein." "The abuse went on for a little bit in the bathroom" at Maxwell's London home, Giuffre said. "And then it continued to the bedroom. And he wasn't rude or anything about it. He said, you know, 'Thank you.'"She said she was later directed to have sex with Prince Andrew on Epstein's private island, an incident which she said stands out in her mind because "he was a prince." "I grew up watching Disney… and princes and princesses were the good people of the world," she said. Prince Andrew has denied having any relationship with Giuffre, and while he acknowledged knowing Epstein, he has maintained he had no knowledge of any of Epstein's crimes. "He's going to keep denying that it ever happened. But he knows the truth. And I know the truth," Giuffre said. For Giuffre and Epstein's other accusers, the convicted sex offender's suicide in his Manhattan jail cell last month only makes it more important for his alleged accomplices to be held accountable. "I think that… there should still be some accountability for a lot of the people that were enabling Epstein. You know, there are still people out there, like Ghislaine Maxwell," said Jennifer Araoz, who said Epstein raped her in his New York home when she was 15. Araoz is suing both Maxwell and Epstein's estate over the alleged rape.British actress Anouska de Georgiou, another alleged victim of Epstein's, struck a defiant tone in the Dateline interview: "Jeffrey thought that we were disposable. And he threw us all away. And look who's still standing." 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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| Candace Owens to House panel: 'White supremacy and white nationalism is not a problem' Posted: 20 Sep 2019 01:13 PM PDT  Five months after far-right pundit Candace Owens told Congress that the rise in hate crimes is "fake" and the GOP's Southern Strategy was "a myth," Republicans once again invited her to testify before a subcommittee on combating white supremacy. This time around, the conservative provocateur straight-up dismissed the notion that white nationalism is a problem.
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| Afghanistan War veterans, still waiting for a peace deal, ask: Was the sacrifice worth it? Posted: 21 Sep 2019 08:05 AM PDT  After 18 years of the U.S.-led war in Afghanistan, some veterans are questioning whether the conflict was worth it.
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| White supremacist who praised ‘psychedelic Nazis’ caught with stockpile of guns and LSD Posted: 21 Sep 2019 03:14 AM PDT  In a secret chat last November, according to court filings, two associates of a violent white supremacist group discussed whether drug use was in line with their political beliefs."Psychedelic Nazis . . . There's nothing more Aryan than entheogenic drug use," Andrew Thomasberg, 21, texted a friend, according to prosecutors, referencing plants that have psychedelic effects. But, he added, "Drug addiction is untermensch" – a Nazi term for people considered subhuman.
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| In 1988, Iran and America Went to War at Sea Posted: 20 Sep 2019 09:00 PM PDT  Let's just say this: half of Iran's Navy was sent to the bottom of the sea.
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| Russia criticizes U.S. general over plan to destroy Kaliningrad air defenses Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:51 AM PDT ![Russia criticizes U.S. general over plan to destroy Kaliningrad air defenses]( "Russia criticizes U.S. general over plan to destroy Kaliningrad air defenses") Russia on Friday accused the United States of brazenly threatening it after a senior U.S. general said Washington had drawn up a plan in case it needed to destroy air defenses in Russia's Kaliningrad exclave in Europe. U.S. General Jeffrey Harrigian said on Tuesday that "If we have to go in there to take down, for instance, the Kaliningrad IADS (Integrated Air Defense System), let there be no doubt we have a plan to go after that," the Breaking Defense magazine reported. Kaliningrad is a Russian region that lies on the Baltic Sea between EU members Lithuania and Poland.
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| 2nd '500-year rainfall' in 2 years will cause $8 billion in damages, AccuWeather predicts Posted: 19 Sep 2019 10:43 AM PDT  Angel Marshman wades through floodwaters from Tropical Depression Imelda after trying to start his flooded car Wednesday, Sept. 18, 2019, in Galveston, Texas. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) AccuWeather estimates the total damage and economic loss caused by Imelda will be $8 billion, according to the company's Founder and CEO Dr. Joel N. Myers, based on an analysis of damages expected from major flooding caused by heavy rainfall over eastern Texas and far southwestern Louisiana.The estimate includes damage to homes and businesses, as well as their contents and cars, job and wage losses, farm and crop losses, contamination of drinking water wells, infrastructure damage, auxiliary business losses and the long-term impact from flooding, in addition to the lingering health effects resulting from flooding and the possible disease caused by standing water.AccuWeather's damage estimate incorporates independent methods to evaluate all direct and indirect impacts of the storm based on a variety of sources, statistics and unique techniques to estimate damage developed over a decade.Given the major flooding with a high risk to lives and property in eastern Texas and far southwestern Louisiana, Imelda is rated as a 3 on the AccuWeather RealImpact™Scale for Hurricanes for the overall tropical storm. The AccuWeather Local StormMax™rainfall amount is projected to be 55 inches; despite that high total, Imelda is a 3 because the coverage area receiving the heaviest rain is not a large or populated area, such as Houston, during Hurricane Harvey in 2017. Imelda was never rated on the Saffir-Simpson Hurricane Wind Scale by the National Hurricane Center."This storm is a great example of the value of the AccuWeather RealImpact™Scale for Hurricanes that we invented," Myers said. "It would be easy to dismiss Imelda since it is not a hurricane but a tropical storm, but the rain and subsequent flooding is the main source of what will be substantial damage."Deep tropical moisture will continue to stream northward from the Gulf of Mexico with heavy rain bands expected to continue impacting the area Thursday night and perhaps even early Friday. A very heavy rain band east of Houston continues to drop copious rainfall amounts of 3 to 4 inches per hour, adding to flooding that is ongoing in some areas."The rain and resulting flooding will be the overwhelming cause of damage and discomfort and threats to life and property," Myers said. "The amount of rainfall will rival records set during Hurricane Harvey, which makes this the second 500-year rainfall within two years."George Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston was at a full ground stop because of the rainfall and severe weather in the area as of Thursday morning. Some parts of Texas are facing possible levee collapses and local emergency offices have asked residents of Harris, Montgomery, Liberty and Chambers counties to shelter in place in response to flood emergencies caused by Imelda.As flooding overwhelmed many access roads, access to Interstate 10 and Highway 69 from Beaumont became "extremely limited," the police department said. The City of Beaumont has closed non-essential offices for Thursday. The interstate was also closed in both directions near Highway 365 and Fannett.Click here to follow AccuWeather's extensive coverage of Imelda for more information.Download the free AccuWeather app to receive the latest forecast and tropical advisories. Stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network for Imelda coverage on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| Meghan Markle is gorgeous in sparkly black gown to attend Misha Nonoo's wedding in Rome Posted: 20 Sep 2019 10:30 AM PDT  The Duke and Duchess of Sussex have stepped out in Rome to attend Misha Nonoo's wedding to oil heir Mikey Hess on Friday.
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| Trudeau says he doesn't know if there will be more blackface photos of him because he didn't remember doing it before the photos came out Posted: 20 Sep 2019 08:20 AM PDT  Photos and videos surfaced this week showing Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau in racist makeup on three occasions in the 1990s and 2000s.
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| Parachutists jump over Dutch heath to mark WWII operation Posted: 21 Sep 2019 06:16 AM PDT  Parachutes glowing gold and white against clear blue skies, hundreds of paratroopers floated to the ground in the eastern Netherlands on Saturday to mark the 75th anniversary of a daring but ultimately unsuccessful mission that Allied commanders hoped would bring a swift end to World War II. Operation Market Garden dropped nearly 35,000 paratroopers deep behind enemy lines in the Nazi-occupied Netherlands. After landing, the troops were to capture and secure key roads and bridges so Allied forces massed in Belgium could pour into Germany's industrial heartland.
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| Cory Booker Hints at Ending White House Bid as Fundraising Slumps Posted: 21 Sep 2019 08:47 AM PDT ![Cory Booker Hints at Ending White House Bid as Fundraising Slumps]( "Cory Booker Hints at Ending White House Bid as Fundraising Slumps") (Bloomberg) -- Senator Cory Booker's fundraising isn't keeping pace with what's required and the New Jersey lawmaker will quit the Democratic presidential race unless he collects $1.7 million in the next 10 days, the campaign said."If we cannot raise the $1.7 million to scale up our operation, we don't believe we are going to be in position to compete for the nomination," Addisu Demissie, Booker's manager, said Saturday in a call with reporters.The former Newark, New Jersey, mayor raised $12.3 million by June 30 and had $5.3 million cash on hand. He lags behind the fundraising of other leading candidates, including front-runner Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren, Kamala Harris, Pete Buttigieg, Amy Klobuchar and Beto O'Rourke.In a fundraising appeal sent shortly after his campaign manager spoke, Booker also told potential donors this is a make-or-break moment."The next ten days will determine whether I have a path in this race," he said in the solicitation. "To be completely transparent with you, team, I'm only going to continue running if I see a clear path to victory."Demissie said the campaign wants to emphasize a need for resources as the third quarter ends because Booker must build his grassroots efforts in early primary states to stay viable. In a memo to supporters, Demissie said fundraising in recent weeks has slowed after an uptick in August.In the call, he said the campaign is at an "inflection point" as state ballot deadlines approach and Booker needs to meet targets to qualify for the Democratic National Committee's December presidential debate.Booker has remained at 2% or 3% in recent polls of Democrats likely to vote in next year's primaries, well behind the emerging top tier of Biden, Warren and Sanders.Booker, 50, is New Jersey's first black senator and has worked to draw comparisons with former President Barack Obama. He has made criminal justice reform a key part of his presidential platform. But he's been challenged by other candidates who are more strongly embraced on the left, particularly Warren and Sanders. Harris, who also is black, has made stronger inroads with African American voters.Booker is in Iowa this weekend for campaign events, including a steak fry in Polk County.(Updates with comments from manager in second paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Laura Litvan in Washington at llitvan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Steve Geimann, Tony CzuczkaFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Mosques in Liberia dedicate Friday prayers to pupils killed in fire Posted: 20 Sep 2019 12:17 PM PDT  The Monrovia suburb of Paynesville was a town in mourning Friday, as residents sought to come to terms with the loss of 27 pupils in a huge fire at a Liberian Koranic school. "How do you expect me to feel in this condition?" said Isatu Sow, mother of one of the victims, who was among the first to arrive at the Bassa Town Community mosque ahead of Friday prayers. Only eight of the 36 people inside the building survived when the fire broke out in the early hours of Thursday morning as the victims, who were all of Guinean origin, slept in the school dormitory.
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| Let Us Show You How Iran Would Wage a War Against America Posted: 20 Sep 2019 07:11 AM PDT  A dangerous game.
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| No future, no children: Teens refusing to have kids until there's action on climate change Posted: 19 Sep 2019 09:54 AM PDT  Canadian Emma Lim is pledgeing NoFutureNoChildren until her government takes serious action against climate change. And it's cathcing on globally.
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