| In Trump pitch at black college, its students were largely absent Posted: 25 Oct 2019 03:54 PM PDT  What if Donald Trump was set to make a grand speech to black students, but no one was allowed to come?
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| UPDATE 1-Syria's Kurdish-led SDF says worked with U.S. on successful anti-IS operation Posted: 27 Oct 2019 02:05 AM PDT ![UPDATE 1-Syria's Kurdish-led SDF says worked with U.S. on successful anti-IS operation]( "UPDATE 1-Syria's Kurdish-led SDF says worked with U.S. on successful anti-IS operation") The Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) said on Sunday they had worked with the United States on a "successful" operation against Islamic State, in an apparent reference to reports that IS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi is believed to have been killed in a U.S. military operation in Syria. "Our strong and effective operations once again confirm our strength and determination to go after (Islamic State)," the head of the SDF's media office, Mustafa Bali, said on Twitter in Arabic. SDF commander Mazloum Abdi said on Twitter an "historic, successful operation" resulted from joint intelligence work with the U.S.
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| This Is How America Can Stop China From Dominating the South China Sea Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:00 AM PDT  America can't do it alone.
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| World ‘Awash’ in Oil As U.S. Sees Its Shale Boom Barreling Ahead Posted: 26 Oct 2019 11:34 PM PDT ![World 'Awash' in Oil As U.S. Sees Its Shale Boom Barreling Ahead]( "World 'Awash' in Oil As U.S. Sees Its Shale Boom Barreling Ahead") (Bloomberg) -- Global markets are "awash" in crude thanks to the surge in U.S. oil output, and the boom looks set to continue, U.S. Energy Secretary Rick Perry said in a Bloomberg TV interview.U.S. shale production has turned the world "on its head," and Goldman Sachs Group Inc. is "off a bit" in a report last week saying that the bonanza is fading, Perry said on Sunday in Dubai.Oil and natural gas from American shale fields have made the U.S. one of the world's largest producers and enabled it to become a net energy exporter. Perry will travel in the coming week to Saudi Arabia to discuss possible sales of U.S. liquefied natural gas and Saudi efforts to develop a nuclear power program. Perry held talks in the United Arab Emirates and visited the country's largest solar-power facility at a site near the U.A.E.'s commercial hub of Dubai.The U.S. sent 11 LNG shipments to the U.A.E. over the past three years and is seeking to sell more of the fuel there and to Saudi Arabia, Perry said.The world needs to be prepared for attacks disrupting the global economy, and the U.S., Saudi Arabia and other allies are discussing the safety of oil supply routes, he said. Aerial strikes against Saudi oil facilities on Sept. 14 temporarily knocked out half of the kingdom's output, and the U.S. is currently doing enough to help Saudi Arabia defend against such attacks in the future, Perry said.Washington won't hold a grudge forever against Saudi Arabia over the murder last October of government critic and U.S. columnist Jamal Khashoggi, though there's not a "massive amount of forgiveness" in Congress for his killing in the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Perry said.The energy secretary said he asked U.S. President Donald Trump to call Ukraine to try to sell U.S. LNG there. The approach to Ukraine is important for energy sales and to break that country's over-reliance on Russian gas, he said.The U.S. is "making progress" with its Middle East foreign policy, while efforts to impeach Trump won't be an issue in the U.S. presidential election next year and will go away in six months, Perry said.\--With assistance from Giovanni Prati.To contact the reporters on this story: Anthony DiPaola in Dubai at adipaola@bloomberg.net;Manus Cranny in London at mcranny@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Nayla Razzouk at nrazzouk2@bloomberg.net, Bruce StanleyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 100 Days Before the Caucuses, Pelosi Visits Iowa to Discuss the Impeachment Inquiry and 'Healing' a Divided Country Posted: 26 Oct 2019 01:47 PM PDT  "Nobody comes to Congress to impeach a President"
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| Lion Air crash report points to Boeing, pilots, maintenance Posted: 25 Oct 2019 03:59 PM PDT  Indonesian investigators found plenty of blame to go around for a Boeing 737 Max crash that killed 189 people a year ago. Investigators said in a report issued Friday that a combination of nine main factors doomed the brand-new Boeing jet that plunged into the Java Sea shortly after takeoff on Oct. 29, 2018. Many of the problems had been previously disclosed in a preliminary report that Indonesian authorities issued last year and in recent findings by U.S. and global safety experts who were privy to the investigation.
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| Birmingham couple charged with murder after abducted 3-year-old's body found in dumpster Posted: 26 Oct 2019 09:34 AM PDT  An Alabama couple have been charged with capital murder in the suffocation death of 3-year-old Kamille "Cupcake" McKinney who was found in a dumpster
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| Being the frontrunner takes its toll: Joe Biden is more disliked than Bernie Sanders Posted: 27 Oct 2019 05:50 AM PDT  While 27% of Democratic voters dislike former Vice President Joe Biden, 21% dislike Sen. Bernie Sanders, and about 15% dislike Sen. Elizabeth Warren.
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| Reps. Schiff, Nadler criticize DOJ for elevating Russia probe to criminal investigation Posted: 25 Oct 2019 01:54 PM PDT  Reps. Adam Schiff, D-Calif., and Jerry Nadler, D-N.Y., criticized the Justice Department late Thursday after the DOJ upgraded its inquiry into the origins of the Russia probe to a criminal investigation.
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| Does Russia's Anti-Drone Pantsir S1 System Even Work? Posted: 26 Oct 2019 06:00 PM PDT  Let's take a look.
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| 'Beautiful' moments as Mexican migrants meet families on US border Posted: 27 Oct 2019 01:11 AM PDT  Ciudad Juárez (Mexico) (AFP) - Hundreds of Mexican migrants to the United States have reunited with their families for a few fleeting moments as part of the "hugs not walls" meetup on the US-Mexico border. People shed tears on a bridge linking Mexico's Ciudad Juarez with El Paso in the United States, flinging their arms around relatives they hadn't seen for years and walking slowly along together. The bridge was made neutral territory for four hours during the event, held for the seventh time, to allow undocumented migrants to the US to see their Mexican families.
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| Steven Mnuchin may have gone against IRS warnings to help a friend get a major tax break Posted: 26 Oct 2019 11:12 AM PDT ![Steven Mnuchin may have gone against IRS warnings to help a friend get a major tax break]( "Steven Mnuchin may have gone against IRS warnings to help a friend get a major tax break") Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin may have used his position to help a billionaire friend earn a significant tax break and subsequent profits, despite the Internal Revenue Service warning against it, The New York Times reports.The Treasury Department, reportedly at the personal instruction of Mnuchin, made an area of land in Nevada owned by financier Michael Milken, who was reportedly an inspiration for the character of Gordon Gekko in the film Wall Street, eligible for a federal tax break that it did not previously qualify for after alleged pressure from Milken's business partner and other landowners.The IRS expressed its doubts about the decision, arguing in an internal memo obtained by the Times that "failure to apply the designation standards equally across the board will call into question the legitimacy of the process by which the designations were made." The memo also stated that the appearance of "arbitrary" Treasury standards like this one could open the "door for accusations that the determination process was influenced by political considerations or bias."Spokespersons for both Mnuchin and Milken, who are reportedly longtime friends, said the two men did not discuss the matter and Mnuchin had no knowledge of Milken's investments in Nevada. Regardless, the report has already spurred criticism. Read more at The New York Times. > THREAD: Let's start with this smoking-gun memo-obtained by The New York Times. Treasury at direct order of Sec. Mnuchin took what staff at IRS warned would be seen as a overtly political act & one could undermine the integrity of a multi-billion dollar Trump-era federal tax break pic.twitter.com/XrToQiBa1r> > -- Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 26, 2019> And the bottom line is that Mr. Mnuchin directed his staff to take a move that many strongly objected to, and which some saw as overtly political, and which stood to benefit his billionaire friend, Milken. (Nevada Gov sent in this letter 45 minutes after phone call with Mnuchin) pic.twitter.com/CnlzVcDAxF> > -- Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) October 26, 2019
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| Trump Gave a Speech at a Historically Black College, and Most Students Were Asked to Stay Inside Their Dorms Posted: 26 Oct 2019 09:16 AM PDT  The President delivered the speech Friday afternoon to a room that only included seven students
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| The Latest: New wildfire forces college campus to evacuate Posted: 27 Oct 2019 10:00 AM PDT  A small wildfire broke out Sunday morning near Vallejo (vuh-LAY'-ho) with flames coming dangerously close to homes and forcing a college to evacuate at the northeast end of San Francisco Bay. The fire forced the freeway to close and the California State University Maritime Academy to issue an evacuation order. The wildfire halted traffic at the Carquinez Bridge toll booth as the freeway became shrouded in thick smoke.
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| Ex-CIA spy flees from Italy to U.S. fearing for her safety: paper Posted: 27 Oct 2019 06:04 AM PDT  A former U.S. spy, pardoned by Italy in connection with the CIA kidnapping of a terrorism suspect in Milan, has fled from Italy to the United States fearing for her safety, Italian newspaper Il Corriere della Sera on Sunday quoted her as saying. Sabrina de Sousa is one of 26 people convicted by Italy in absentia over the 2003 abduction of Egyptian cleric Hassan Mustafa Osama Nasr, but the only one to spend any time in prison for the operation, in which she denies involvement. De Sousa was still due to carry out community service in Italy until next year after the Italian president commuted her four-year prison sentence but she decided to flee the country after U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo and CIA Director Gina Haspel visited Rome in October, Il Corriere said.
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| After woman set ablaze at Taco Bell in Florida, police investigate string of other fires Posted: 25 Oct 2019 11:08 AM PDT  Tallahassee police responded to the Taco Bell Wednesday after a suspect allegedly doused the woman in gasoline and lit her on fire.
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| Hizbollah leader warns of civil war after days of Lebanon protests Posted: 25 Oct 2019 11:21 AM PDT  The leader of Hizbollah on Friday warned Lebanon that nationwide protests calling for the overthrow of the government could lead to chaos and civil war. Hassan Nasrallah praised protesters for achieving "unprecedented" economic reforms but also suggested foreign intervention had a role in the demonstrations. Over a quarter of Lebanon's population are reported to have taken to the streets in anti-corruption protests over the past week. Hizbollah supporters have in recent days organised counter-attacks on the protests, which have so far remained largely free of sectarian division. The powerful Shiite group, which is backed regionally by Iran, is in coalition with the government of Prime Minister Saad Hariri. Speaking to the nation for the first time on day nine of the mass protests, Nasrallah warned that he had "intelligence" of foreign "conspiracies" to drag Lebanon into civil war. Lebanon has been swept by more than a week of nationwide protests against the political elite Credit: AFP The leader claimed that the protests had started spontaneously, but were now being funded and organised by local and foreign actors who were exploiting the naivety of protestors. His speech echoed those given earlier this week by Mr Hariri and Michel Aoun, the country's president. On the streets, protesters appeared unmoved. "All of them means all of them" they chanted, in reference to the demand for the country's entire cabinet to be replaced. For the second day, security forces had to create human walls between the protestors and Hizbollah supporters in attempts to stop scuffles. "We are not going to stop our protests until we get what we want. We have been suffocated in these conditions for years. They have to go. All of them means all of them," said Hieba, a 42-year-old restaurant owner.
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| After This War, India Became A Powerhouse and Pakistan Was Ruined Posted: 26 Oct 2019 05:14 PM PDT  The 1971 India-Pakistan War's legacy lives on.
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| Our fascination with Tyrannosaurus Rex Posted: 27 Oct 2019 12:06 AM PDT  Why are we captivated with a creature that hasn't existed on Earth for about 66 million years? "Sunday Morning" digs for answers
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| Another black eye for Boeing Posted: 26 Oct 2019 03:15 AM PDT ![Another black eye for Boeing]( "Another black eye for Boeing") The smartest insight and analysis, from all perspectives, rounded up from around the web:Boeing's 737 Max jet now faces even more trouble, said David Gelles and Natalie Kitroeff at The New York Times. Last week, Boeing gave the Federal Aviation Administration a transcript of messages from 2016 that reveal that the jet's automated systems had raised alarms more than two years before two fatal crashes. In the messages, Mark Forkner, one of Boeing's top pilots, complained of "egregious" erratic behavior in flight simulator tests of a troubled automated system known as MCAS. In earlier discussions, Forkner had left the FAA -- which agreed to let Boeing drop any mention of MCAS from the pilots' manual -- with the impression the system was rarely used, and he had not told the agency that it was in the midst of an overhaul. "I basically lied to the regulators (unknowingly)," Forkner wrote in another message. The newly disclosed records "strike at Boeing's defense that it had done nothing wrong" and that regulators were to blame for the crashes.The new information gives ammunition to lawmakers who were already "ratcheting up scrutiny of Boeing's leaders," said Andrew Tangel and Andy Pasztor at The Wall Street Journal. Boeing's engineers often played dual roles "designing certain systems on behalf of the plane maker and then certifying the same systems as safe" on behalf of the FAA. Investigators recently uncovered a three-year-old survey "showing roughly 1 in 3 employees who responded felt 'potential undue pressure' from managers regarding safety-related approvals."Families of the crash victims aren't just seeking damages -- they want regulators to order a complete re-certification of the Max, said Jim Zarroli on NPR's Morning Edition. "Such a move would be an enormous financial challenge for Boeing," which was counting on getting the Max back in the air by the end of this year. But "the possibility the 737 Max could be flying again soon has stirred" victims' families into collective action, including a call for a "soup-to-nuts examination of its design" by regulators. While that's unlikely to happen, the FAA's response after this latest news was "not encouraging," said Chris Isidore at CNN. Any further delay in the approval process "will be more than another black eye" for Boeing. It could shut the assembly lines for the 737 Max, until recently Boeing's best-selling plane. The company already has a backlog of more than 400 planes that have been built but can't be delivered until the plane is ready to fly again.Boeing continues to dig itself into a deeper hole, said Brooke Sutherland at Bloomberg. Forkner's messages are bad; worse, the FAA, like the rest of us, is "only now finding out" about them, even though Boeing knew for months. Yes, the company did recently unveil an "organizational overhaul" intended to improve safety and transparency, and it stripped CEO Dennis Muilenburg of his chairman's title. But "for all of Boeing's talk about recommitting itself to safety, the company appears reluctant to fully come clean."
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| Joe Biden's changing looks have reportedly become a 'minor obsession of the White House' and Trump Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:21 AM PDT  Early on, Trump was worried about Joe Biden. Privately, he doesn't like his 'look,' or the plastic surgery he thinks Biden has had done.
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| California blaze forces evacuations as wind spurs blackouts Posted: 26 Oct 2019 10:07 PM PDT  A Northern California blaze forced evacuation orders and warnings for nearly all of Sonoma County stretching to the coast, with forecasts of strong winds prompting blackouts to prevent fire-causing power line damage. Pacific Gas & Electric started shutting off power Saturday around 5 p.m. for an estimated 2.35 million people across 38 counties. About 90,000 residents were ordered to evacuate towns near the 40-square-mile (104-square-kilometer) fire.
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| Man Opens Fire in Georgia Walmart Dies After Turning Gun on Himself: Police Posted: 26 Oct 2019 10:56 AM PDT  No one besides the shooter was injured
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| Saudi takes command of coalition troops in Yemen's Aden Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:22 AM PDT  Saudi Arabia took command of anti-rebel troops in Yemen's Aden, Saudi state media said Sunday, after the government and southern separatist forces struck a power-sharing deal following clashes in the city. "Coalition forces have been repositioned in Aden to become under the kingdom's command and redeployed to conform with requirements of current operations," the Saudi-led pro-government coalition said in a statement carried by the Saudi Press Agency.
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| Car crash stopped red light runner from hitting couple with stroller, traffic cam shows Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:19 AM PDT  Shannon Vivar was driving a Chevrolet Cruz when it crashed into a vehicle that ran a red light, possibly saving the pedestrians.
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| After bishops call for married priests, pope urges new ways Posted: 27 Oct 2019 06:08 AM PDT  At Mass Sunday in St. Peter's Basilica to conclude a weeks-long Vatican meeting on the special needs of Catholics in that South American region, Francis thanked the bishops for their candor. In follow-up remarks to faithful in St. Peter's Square, he didn't cite the vote a day earlier by a majority of the synod's bishops to ordain married men in special circumstances in the region, where some faithful who want to attend Mass and receive the Eucharist don't see priests for months, even years. On Saturday, Francis told bishops he would draw his conclusions about their requests in a document he hoped to write by year's end.
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| Four-star US army general compares Trump to Mussolini after ‘watershed moment’ for America Posted: 26 Oct 2019 06:06 AM PDT  A decorated retired US Army general has compared Donald Trump to fascist dictator Benito Mussolini, and said the president's actions over the past week are a watershed moment for America.Mr Trump ordered his administration to cancel subscriptions to The New York Times and The Washington Post at the start of the week, a move that Barry McCaffrey called 'deadly serious'.
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| Argentina to welcome back Peronists after four years of failed economic reform Posted: 27 Oct 2019 01:00 AM PDT  When Andrea Espinosa began offering food from her home in the Argentinian district of Neuquen eight years ago, it was just to hungry school kids. Now even pensioners shuffle, embarrassed, into her tiny breeze-block shack. Theoretically, Neuquen, which lies on a windswept Patagonian plateau, is one of Argentina's boom towns, home to the third largest shale and gas reserves in the world. On a recent campaign stop, incumbent president Mauricio Macri called the region "the beating heart of Argentina". But the scale of economic dysfunction Mr Macri has overseen in his four years in office has left a third of the country below the poverty line - and even the residents of Neuquen are struggling. Now Neuquen, like the rest of Argentina, looks set to vote overwhelmingly to return the Peronists, four years after Cristina Kirchner's government was kicked out over endemic corruption. "This government is to blame," says Mrs Espinosa, 25. "Inflation is out of control, and salaries can't keep pace. People are hungry. Neuquen is the richest province in the country, and yet we're living like this? It's a disgrace." Mr Macri started well - attempting to peel back 20 years of Peronist economic illusion by resuming the publication of financial data, stripping away subsidies, and resolving long-standing feuds with international financial organisations. But that soon stalled, due to both bad luck – the worst drought in 40 years, the US raising interest rates – and arrogance. Mr Macri seemed to believe his pro-business rhetoric was enough. By 2018 the International Monetary Fund (IMF) had approved the largest bailout package in its 73-year history – a $57 billion loan designed to shore up the country's faltering economy and end its pattern of cyclical crises. The cash injection has not worked and Argentina's annual inflation rate is the highest in the region at 54 per cent. The Peronists have a new face in Alberto Fernandez, a 60-year-old former Cabinet secretary, but Mrs Kirchner still looms large as his running mate. Alberto Fernandez, who polls say is on track to be elected as president on Sunday, with his running mate, Cristina Kirchner In May she arranged a meeting with Mr Fernandez to inform him, he said, that she was choosing him as the candidate. She would only run as his vice president "because the country needs someone who does not divide, but rather unites," he recounted. He insists he is more than just her puppet, but few believe him. The announcement of her position on the ticket destabilised financial markets, as investors realised with horror that South America's second-largest economy could soon be ruled once more by a populist who delighted in disrupting the international financial order. The charismatic 66-year-old, who has been frequently compared to Eva Peron, has 11 corruption, bribery and money laundering cases pending against her dating from her time as president between 2007-15. She denies the allegations, describing them as politically-motivated, but the testimony of her former chauffeur has been particularly damning. In court testimony, he described driving bags of cash bribes to her from construction companies – 40 bags of money were even stashed away inside the mausoleum of Mrs Kirchner's late husband and predecessor, Nestor, who died in 2010. Her former planning minister is now serving a six-year sentence after he was caught throwing $9 million in cash over the wall of a convent outside Buenos Aires, in an attempt to hide it from investigators.And at the start of the year the newspaper Clarin calculated that 28 of her former officials or business associates were behind bars, mainly on corruption charges. Cristina Kirchner, president from 2007-15, is loved by millions of Argentines - and despised by an equally large number. But for Mrs Kirchner's supporters, who benefited from her generous social welfare programmes, her return cannot come soon enough. "An old lady approached me the other day and asked when she was coming back," said Nanci Parrilli, a deputy in Neuquen's provincial government. "She told me that her last pair of glasses was given to her by Cristina. And she can no longer see. "When I visited schools, they used to ask me if we could update the computers to the latest models. Now they ask for food." An aerial view of a town on the outskirts of the Vaca Muerta shale gas and oil reserve, in Neuquen province Francisco Sanchez, the national parliament candidate for Mr Macri's Republican Proposal party in Neuquen, shakes his head sadly when asked why Mr Macri is staring defeat in the face. "We've been good at management, but bad at marketing," he said. "We've just been doing what a government should. In a province with 7,000km of roads, we built 1,000km. We've built three new hospitals. The government has been transparent, and is clamping down on corruption. Twelve years of Kirchner lies are over. We were handed a terrible inheritance. But four years isn't enough to turn it around." Since a shock defeat in primaries in August, which sparked the currency plunge, Mr Macri has chopped taxes and told the energy firms that dollar contracts would be paid at a set exchange rate, far weaker than the market rate. He also imposed currency controls to keep the country's diminishing supply of dollars from fleeing abroad. The moves have further spooked investors abroad, and appear unlikely to have achieved their purpose in shifting the dial in his favour. A couple unfolds a map of Vaca Muerta oil area during the Argentina Oil and Gas Expo 2019 in Buenos Aires on September 25 "The benefits haven't reached the people," said Asuncion Miras Trabalon, Mr Sanchez's rival. "The oil sector is controlled by an elite. Very few jobs have been created. Furthermore, Macri has focused on bringing in international companies, rather than employing our small businesses – which are highly trained and up to the task. "The only thing Macri has done for us is saddle us with debt, which will take us 100 years to pay off." Mr Macri's supporters are clinging to the hope that he can force the Fernandez-Kirchner team into a second-round run off, on November 24. "It's like a game of football – you play right to the final whistle," said Mario Esteban Lara, a councillor for Mr Macri's party. And then hope for help from the Hand of God? He laughed. "Not all of us are cheats."
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| Thousands ordered to flee California wine country blaze Posted: 26 Oct 2019 12:13 PM PDT  California firefighters raced against time on Saturday as they cut defensive lines against a wildfire in Sonoma County's famed wine country and authorities ordered 50,000 people to evacuate, ahead of winds that are forecast to pick up at night and spread the flames. The expanded evacuation orders came as the utility Pacific Gas and Electric Corp prepared to shut off power to about 940,000 customers in 36 of the state's counties to guard against the risk that an electric mishap could spark a blaze. The move to cut power to so many people quickly drew a rebuke from California Governor Gavin Newsom, who called it "unacceptable" in a video message on Twitter.
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| Trump Administration Has Separated 1,556 More Migrant Children Than Previously Known Posted: 25 Oct 2019 05:37 PM PDT  A Trump Administration lawsuit revealed an additional 1,556 children were separated from their parents then what was previously reported.
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| Did Israeli Stealth F-35s Do the Unthinkable: Fly Over Iran? Posted: 26 Oct 2019 11:00 PM PDT  Is that really possible?
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| Hitman outsourced a murder to hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman, who hired hitman Posted: 27 Oct 2019 09:17 AM PDT  Six men — including five hitmen — have been charged in Chinese court last Thursday, after all attempted to subcontract the killing to another hitman.
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| Trump kept Pelosi and key Democrats out of the loop on the strike against ISIS leader al-Baghdadi Posted: 27 Oct 2019 08:10 AM PDT  Trump said he "wanted to make sure this kept secret, I didn't want to have men lost, and women, I didn't want people lost."
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| Mind your language: Archbishop of Canterbury's Brexit warning for Boris Posted: 26 Oct 2019 07:21 PM PDT  The Archbishop of Canterbury has taken Prime Minister Boris Johnson to task for his use of "inflammatory" language through the Brexit debate. Justin Welby told The Sunday Times there was a risk of pouring "petrol" on the country's divisions on the issue of Britain's departure from the European Union. The archbishop said Mr Johnson had come to symbolise a climate in which Britain had become consumed by "an abusive and binary approach to political decisions", and where those with opposing views treated each other as "total" enemies. In an era in which social media had made it "extraordinarily dangerous to use careless comments", and in which hate speech was on the rise, Mr Welby called for political leaders to take more care with their language. He said his criticisms were not confined to Mr Johnson and his Government, but made it clear he considered the prime minister partly to blame for the fact society had become "quite broken". The Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby during an address at Westminster Abbey. Credit: Paul Grover/Paul Grover "I think we have become addicted to an abusive and binary approach to political decisions: 'It's either this or you're my total enemy'," Mr Welby told the paper. "There have been inflammatory words used on all sides, in parliament and outside - 'traitor', 'fascist', all kinds of really bad things have been said at the highest level in politics." Mr Welby said he was "shocked" by Mr Johnson's recent dismissal of concerns extreme language could encourage death threats against politicians as "humbug". And he added political leaders could no longer behave the same way as Mr Johnson's hero, Winston Churchill. "Churchill was well known for his somewhat inflammatory putdowns in parliament," the archbishop said. "But this is happening at a time when we have social media, which amplifies things. "In a time of deep uncertainty, a much smaller amount of petrol is a much more dangerous thing than it was in a time when people were secure. "There is a great danger to doing it when we're already in a very polarised and volatile situation." Mr Welby said action was needed to heal divisions "at almost every level of society, including the political level of society", adding: "I don't only blame government. I think we are quite broken."
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| Tech consultations on parts of U.S. trade deal completed: China's Commerce Ministry Posted: 25 Oct 2019 09:01 PM PDT  Chinese Vice Premier Liu He had a phone call with U.S. trade officials as both countries confirmed technical consultations on some parts of a trade agreement were basically completed, China's Ministry of Commerce said in a statement on Saturday. Liu spoke with U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer and U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin on Friday night, the statement said. The Commerce Ministry said both sides agreed to properly address each other's core concerns.
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