| Rep. Connolly says Democrats already have 'smoking gun' to impeach Trump Posted: 12 Nov 2019 07:12 PM PST  A Democratic lawmaker who attended most of the closed-door depositions over the past month said that while public hearings will be instructive for Americans, President Trump has already given Congress all the evidence it needs to impeach him.
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| Sorry, Hillary: Democrats don't need a savior Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:42 AM PST  With the Iowa caucuses fast approaching, Hillary Clinton is just the latest in the colorful cast of characters who seem to have surveyed the sprawling Democratic field, sensed something lacking and decided that "something" might be them.
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| Islamic Jihad continues to fire rockets into Israel following commander's assassination Posted: 13 Nov 2019 05:50 PM PST ![Islamic Jihad continues to fire rockets into Israel following commander's assassination]( "Islamic Jihad continues to fire rockets into Israel following commander's assassination") Islamic Jihad has fired at least 360 rockets into Israel from Gaza since Tuesday, the Israeli army said Wednesday night, in response to the assassination of one of the militant group's senior commanders.On Tuesday, the commander, Bahaa Abu al-Ata, and his wife were killed when their Gaza home was targeted by an Israeli airstrike. The army says Abu al-Ata was responsible for several rocket attacks against Israel, and was planning a massive operation against the country.After Abu al-Ata's death was reported, Islamic Jihad began firing rockets into Israel, and Israel responded by ramping up airstrikes against Islamic Jihad targets across the Gaza Strip. At least 26 Palestinians have died in the fighting, including a 7-year-old boy. Islamic Jihad is backed by Iran, and calls for the destruction of Israel.The militant group Hamas, which controls Gaza, has so far stayed out of the matter. Egyptian mediators are trying to arrange a truce, The Associated Press reports, and U.N. Mideast envoy Nickolay Mladenov said the organization is "working to urgently de-escalate the situation." On Tuesday, Syrian officials said an Israeli airstrike targeting an Islamic Jihad militant in Damascus missed him, but killed two of his relatives.More stories from theweek.com The coming death of just about every rock legend The president has already confessed to his crimes Why are 2020 Democrats so weird?
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| Climate change is damaging the health of the world's children and threatens lifelong impact, report says Posted: 13 Nov 2019 03:31 PM PST  Climate change is already damaging children's health worldwide and could shape the well-being of an entire generation.
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| Young Turks Founder Cenk Uygur Files for Katie Hill’s Former Seat Posted: 14 Nov 2019 05:05 AM PST  Progressive talk show host Cenk Uygur has filed to enter the race for disgraced former congresswoman Katie Hill's congressional district, according to a Federal Election Commission database filing submitted on Wednesday.Uygur, host and creator of "The Young Turks," a leftist online news outlet, tweeted "no comment" after news broke of the filing Wednesday night.> To all reporters: No comment.> > -- Cenk Uygur (@cenkuygur) November 13, 2019During a show on Wednesday in which he endorsed Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) for president, Uygur hinted at "dramatic news on Thursday" and told viewers to "stay tuned."A former MSNBC commentator, Uygur has drifted further left in recent years, but in college he espoused conservative views, supporting pro-life causes and defending Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas. A Turkish immigrant, he has also been the subject of controversy for his past denial of the Armenian genocide, for which he apologized in 2016.Hill left her seat on October 28, resigning after the House Ethics Committee opened an investigation into allegations that Hill engaged in inappropriate sexual relationships with multiple staffers."I know that even a consensual relationship with a subordinate is inappropriate, but I still allowed it to happen despite my better judgment," Hill wrote in a letter of resignation at the time.On Wednesday night, Hill appeared to distance herself from Uygur by reinforcing her support for state assemblywoman Christy Smith, saying "A local gal is the only one who can keep it blue and the only one the community deserves."> A local gal flipped a decades-long Rep seat to win by 9 pts. A local gal is the only one who can keep it blue and the only one the community deserves. I called @ChristyforCA25 before I resigned to make sure she would run. Boys, please be gentlemen and step aside. She's got this. https://t.co/0HGzQY58Zr> > -- Katie Hill (@KatieHill4CA) November 13, 2019On October 29, former Trump campaign aide George Papadopoulos — a central figure in the 2016 Russiagate probe — announced his interest in running for Hill's seat.In 2017, Papadopoulous pleaded guilty to lying to investigators regarding his contacts with Russia and subsequently spent twelve days in prison.> I care about one endorsement: the American people. The rest is white noise.> > -- George Papadopoulos (@GeorgePapa19) October 30, 2019
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| An Air India flight was delayed nearly 12 hours after a stowaway rat was spotted in the cabin Posted: 13 Nov 2019 08:30 AM PST  "The rat was located and trapped. Then the aircraft was fumigated," a representative from Air India said, according to Indian local media.
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| Ukraine Wants to Set the Record Straight on Taylor Testimony Posted: 12 Nov 2019 07:53 PM PST  Carlos Jasso/ReutersWhen Ambassador Bill Taylor testified to congressional Democrats' closed-door impeachment inquiry, he created huge headaches for the Trump administration by detailing their efforts to push Ukraine to probe former Vice President Joe Biden's son. But Taylor also made some problems for Ukraine's president. And now, aides in President Volodymyr Zelensky's office are going on the record to push back. The episode shows just how complicated relations between the U.S. and Ukraine have become as the Trump impeachment inquiry unfolds. In his testimony last month, Taylor—America's top diplomat in Kyiv—implied that two Zelensky aides blamed Ukraine, rather than Russia, for the long-running, bloody war in the eastern part of the country. Taylor's words weren't crystal-clear, but the comment set off a political firestorm in Ukraine, where Russian-backed separatist fighters have killed thousands of Ukrainians. Critics of the country's newly elected president, Volodymyr Zelensky, seized on Taylor's testimony as evidence that Zelensky's team is running interference for Russia. The conversation Taylor described began when then-U.S. special envoy Kurt Volker urged the two Zelensky aides, Igor Novikov and Andriy Yermak, not to prosecute Petro Poroshenko, the country's last president and Zelensky's old rival. Poroshenko associates are linked to a huge military procurement scandal in Ukraine. Trump Wanted Zelensky to Publicly Announce He Was Investigating BidenTaylor told congressional investigators that after Volker urged the two Ukrainians to steer clear of charging Poroshenko, they had an emotional response. "[T]hey responded, take a look at this," Taylor said. Then he said that Yermak and Novikov showed Taylor and Volker pictures on their cellphones "of their relatives—one was a brother, one was a cousin—who had been killed or wounded in the east.""[T]hey said, Poroshenko is responsible for this," Taylor told investigators. Taylor's description of that comment has drawn little attention in American media (Novikov commented briefly on it to The Daily Beast last week). But it set off a significant controversy in Kyiv. Poroshenko allies seized on the testimony to say the Zelensky team was blaming the former president, Poroshenko, for the war in the east–and, in doing so, protecting Russia from accountability for the violent conflict."[Th]is testimony... puts the blame for the war against Ukraine on Ukraine, not on Russia," said Iryna Herashchenko, one of Poroshenko's allies in Ukraine's parliament, according to Interfax. And now, Yermak is pushing back. "I have never said that Poroshenko is responsible for the start of the war in Donbass," he told The Daily Beast in a statement. "What I said was, 'No one is above the law." He added, "Maybe I'm the wrong person to have this conversation with, since my family, like all other families in Ukraine, has been directly affected by this war." Novikov, meanwhile, also described the conversation differently than Taylor did. "As far as I remember, there's also a Kolomoisky reference in that section of Ambassador Taylor's testimony," he said in a statement, referring to oligarch Ihor Kolomoisky, who owns the TV station where Zelensky had a show before running for president. "Let me say this (and I'm choosing my words very carefully here): I have never met Kolomoisky; my questions and emotions towards Poroshenko are to do with corruption—I don't blame him for starting the war, and never have. Furthermore, our conversation centered around Kurt Volker's suggestion not to go after Poroshenko, and during this, as well as the subsequent meetings with Ambassador Taylor, I was consistent in my message: no one should be above the law."Novikov also indicated frustration that Taylor told Congress that he and Yermak had relatives fighting in the war with Russian-backed separatists. "I don't want to go into the details here, not to make the situation worse than it is," he said. "Let's just say that this whole thing, the publicity, that was unnecessary and reckless."House GOP Lawyer Tried to Out Whistleblower in Bill Taylor InterviewRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet 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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| Turkey deports American IS suspect stuck at Greek border Posted: 14 Nov 2019 02:20 AM PST  An American man suspected of being a member of the Islamic State group is being repatriated to the United States after spending three days in a no man's land between Turkey and Greece, Turkey's Interior Ministry said Thursday. The United States agreed to take him in and will provide him with travel documents, the ministry said, adding that the repatriation was underway. The move comes a day after Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan met with U.S. President Donald Trump in Washington.
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| The U.S. Navy canceled a routine Black Sea operation after Trump complained that it was hostile to Russia Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:01 AM PST  Christopher Anderson, an aide to Kurt Volker, former special envoy to Ukraine, testified that the White House canceled a Navy freedom-of-navigation operation in the Black Sea after President Trump complained to then-national security adviser John Bolton about a CNN report that framed the operation as a counter to Russia, Politico reported.
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| Immigration officer blows whistle on 'morally objectionable' Trump asylum policy Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:09 AM PST  A new anonymous whistleblower has accused the Trump administration of requiring U.S. asylum officers to enforce an illegal and immoral policy "clearly designed to further this administration's racist agenda of keeping Hispanic and Latino populations from entering the United States."
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| 'You embarrassed yourself': Kellyanne Conway blasts CNN's Wolf Blitzer for playing George Conway clip Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:29 AM PST  On CNN Thursday, Kellyanne Conway, special counselor to President Trump, was asked to respond to the assessment given by her husband, George, that testimony in the first public impeachment hearings was damning for her boss.
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| Ray Cromartie: Death row inmate executed without testing DNA evidence ‘that could have proved his innocence’ Posted: 14 Nov 2019 01:38 AM PST  A man has been executed in the US state of Georgia despite a request from his lawyers for DNA evidence which they claimed would clear him of murder.Ray Jefferson Cromartie was convicted of the April 1994 shooting of shop worker Richard Slysz twice in the head at the convenience store in the city of Thomasville.
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| General rebuked after tempers flare over rebuilding Notre-Dame Posted: 14 Nov 2019 05:44 AM PST  The French army general charged with the rebuilding of Paris' fire-ravaged Notre-Dame was rebuked by the government Thursday after telling the chief architect to "shut his mouth" in a sign of tension over the cathedral's future appearance. General Jean-Louis Georgelin lost his cool with architect Philippe Villeneuve in a dispute over whether to replace the spire -- which was toppled in the April 15 blaze -- with an exact replica or mix things up with a modern twist. "As for the chief architect, I have already explained that he should shut his mouth," Georgelin said to gasps of astonishment at a meeting of the cultural affairs committee of the lower house National Assembly late Wednesday.
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| Damaged Hard Rock hotel will be completely demolished, New Orleans officials say Posted: 13 Nov 2019 05:30 PM PST  The demolition process will take nine weeks, followed by three months of cleanup. The building's owners will cover all costs.
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| A History of Modern American Architecture Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:28 PM PST |
| Hyundai Santa Cruz Small Pickup Will Start Production in 2021 Posted: 13 Nov 2019 06:54 PM PST  Several years after its debut as a concept, Hyundai's first truck has officially become a reality.
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| Top Putin aide named by MH17 airliner investigators Posted: 14 Nov 2019 05:12 AM PST  An international investigation into the 2014 downing of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 on Thursday released a series of phone intercepts, including one between a top aide to Russian President Vladimir Putin and pro-Russian rebels accused in the crash. Calls between officials in Moscow and pro-Russian rebels in eastern Ukraine mostly took place via secure telephones provided by the Russian security service, and intensified ahead of the disaster in the first half of July 2014, the Joint Investigation Team (JIT) said. "The indications for close ties between leaders of the DPR (Donetsk People's Republic) and Russian government officials raise questions about their possible involvement in the deployment of the (missile), which brought down flight MH17 on 17 July 2014," the JIT said.
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| McConnell nukes House Ex-Im Bank bill in rebuke to Waters Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:34 AM PST  Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell is refusing to take up House legislation that would extend the operations of the beleaguered Export-Import Bank for the next decade and is instead inclined to keep the agency running as part of an upcoming government funding bill, he told POLITICO. The House on Friday is planning to pass legislation by Financial Services Chairwoman Maxine Waters (D-Calif.) that would reauthorize the agency for 10 years. The agency was previously included in the so-called continuing resolution that Congress passed in September to avoid a government shutdown at that time.
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| Ukrainian energy company tied to Hunter Biden supported American think tank, paid for trips Posted: 12 Nov 2019 05:51 PM PST  Burisma gave more than $450,000 to the Atlantic Council, a prominent Washington think tank.
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| The Latest: Mother of missing girl charged with neglect Posted: 12 Nov 2019 04:02 PM PST  Authorities say they've charged the mother of a missing 5-year-old Florida girl with child neglect and giving false information to investigators. Jacksonville Sheriff Mike Williams announced the charges against Brianna Williams during a news conference Tuesday evening. Taylor Rose Williams was reported missing from her Jacksonville, Florida, home last Wednesday.
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| 'Blossom everywhere': Hong Kong protesters evolve tactics Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:47 AM PST  From "be water" to "blossom everywhere", Hong Kong's black-clad pro-democracy protesters' tactics have evolved this week in their bid to overwhelm police by creating flashpoints in as many areas as possible. The campaign of massive disruption has seen small groups of protesters emerge all across the city of 7.5 million people from Monday to block intersections, vandalise shops, clash with police and damage the vital train network. "We must blossom everywhere to divert the police force," read an anonymous post on Wednesday morning on an internet message board popular with protesters, echoing other calls online.
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| Bloomberg Responded ‘Kill It’ after Employee Disclosed Her Pregnancy, 1997 Lawsuit Alleges Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:11 AM PST  Democratic presidential candidate Michael Bloomberg allegedly told a female employee,"kill it!" when she told him she was pregnant, according to the former Bloomberg executive's 1997 lawsuit.The lawsuit filed in New York by Sekiko Sakai Garrison alleges Bloomberg followed up his first remark with another offensive comment, "Great! Number 16," apparently referring to the number of pregnant employees on his payroll.Sakai Garrison also claimed Bloomberg pointed out another woman to her and remarked, "If you looked like that, I would do you in a second.""Sexual harassment and sexual degredation of women at Bloomberg was pervasive," the lawsuit states.Sakai Garrison, who now lives in Seattle, achieved the number one ranking as regional sales manager at Bloomberg's company, where she worked from 1989 to 1995, when she was let go. She did not respond to a request for comment.The suit accused Bloomberg of making racist remarks as well, including calling Mexican clients "jumping beans" and telling a female employee who needed a nanny, "all you need is some black who doesn't even have to speak English to rescue it from a burning building."The billionaire businessman settled the lawsuit in 2000. Bloomberg claimed to have passed a lie detector test in 2001 denying he made the remark about Sakai Garrison's pregnancy. He said he submitted to the polygraph "because I expected that those allegations would surface in the news media as I began to explore the possibility of entering the mayor's race."Reports of the former New York City mayor's demeaning comments towards women and others have circulated for years, some documented in a book of one-liners gifted to him by work colleagues."Mike has come to see that some of what he has said is disrespectful and wrong," said Bloomberg's spokesman, Stu Loeser. "He believes his words have not always aligned with his values and the way he has led his life."Bloomberg is currently battling lackluster poll numbers in the Democratic presidential primary after his late 2020 campaign announcement.
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| 4 frat deaths this month, 2 this week alone. What's going on with fraternity hazing? Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:41 PM PST  As a wave of young men nationally die in circumstances that appear to be related to fraternities, experts are unsure what to do next
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| The Navy Has Spent $13 Billion On An Aircraft Carrier That Can't Deploy Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:00 PM PST  The delay could further inhibit the ability of the Navy's Atlantic Fleet to deploy carriers.
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| ‘Watchmen’ brings 1921 Tulsa massacre to the fore: Three questions Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:31 AM PST !['Watchmen' brings 1921 Tulsa massacre to the fore: Three questions]( "'Watchmen' brings 1921 Tulsa massacre to the fore: Three questions") The massacre in Tulsa, Oklahoma, was largely forgotten, even by those living in the state. But as many as 300 black people died.
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| Steve Bannon says Democrats' strategy to impeach Trump is 'brilliant' Posted: 13 Nov 2019 06:50 AM PST  Far-right political strategist Steve Bannon has called the tactics deployed by Democrats to impeach his former boss and remove him from office "quite brilliant."
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| U.S. Justice Ginsburg misses oral arguments with illness Posted: 13 Nov 2019 07:35 AM PST  Liberal U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, who has faced various health scares over the past year, missed oral arguments in court on Wednesday due to illness. In August, Ginsburg underwent radiation therapy for pancreatic cancer. If Ginsburg, one of four liberal justices on the nine-member Supreme Court, were unable to continue serving, Republican President Donald Trump could replace her with a conservative, further shifting the court to the right.
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| Trump keeps contradicting the Pentagon about whatever it is the US is doing with Syria's oil Posted: 13 Nov 2019 04:07 PM PST  "We want to worry about our things," Trump said. "We're keeping the oil, we have the oil, the oil is secure, we left troops behind only for the oil."
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| Delhi smog hits 'emergency' levels as Britain's Prince Charles visits Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:43 AM PST  New Delhi has been choked on and off for weeks, as industrial and traffic pollution -- combined with smoke from crop stubble burning -- cast a toxic pall over the metropolis. With the government facing new criticism over steps taken to counter the pollution, Prince Charles visited the Indian Meteorology Department as part of his two-day visit to India.
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| Pope taps fellow Jesuit as Vatican’s finance minister Posted: 14 Nov 2019 04:13 AM PST  Pope Francis on Thursday appointed a fellow Jesuit to be the Vatican's finance minister, filling a crucial position left vacant for more than two years after Cardinal George Pell left Rome to stand trial on sex abuse charges in his native Australia. The appointment of the Rev. Juan Antonio Guerrero Alves, a 60-year-old Spanish economist, came one day after Australia's Supreme Court agreed to hear Pell's appeal of his conviction for molesting two choirboys in the 1990s. Francis created the Secretariat for the Economy, and named Pell its prefect, as a key part of his financial reform plans after being elected pope in 2013.
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| Deadly Arctic blast breaks records set more than 100 years ago Posted: 13 Nov 2019 01:47 PM PST  It was literally freezing in Florida and Alabama and parts of Maine, Michigan and New York were digging out a foot of snow. Blame an Arctic air mass.
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| Russia's Nuclear Battlecruisers: Armed with Hypersonic Anti-Ship Missiles? Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:00 PM PST  A shadowy new missile soon could arm some of the oldest, and some of the newest, ships in the Russian fleet.
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| Kentucky's GOP governor embraces conspiracies as he refuses to concede Posted: 13 Nov 2019 04:20 PM PST  Only hours after he appeared to lose his reelection bid last week, Kentucky Gov. Matt Bevin, a Republican, started making baseless claims about supposed irregularities and voter fraud.
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| Republicans gripe about acting secretaries — and pave the way for another Posted: 13 Nov 2019 02:10 AM PST  The Senate confirmed Chad Wolf Wednesday to become policy undersecretary at the Department of Homeland Security so that he can take another job — acting secretary of the entire agency. The strange maneuver comes as the White House still hasn't named a permanent successor to Kirstjen Nielsen to lead DHS since her resignation in April. In a 54-41 vote, the Senate approved Wolf's nomination, with Democratic Sens.
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| View Photos of the 2020 Lexus UX Posted: 14 Nov 2019 07:45 AM PST |
| The New Zealand man accused of murdering backpacker Grace Millane after a Tinder date said he arranged another date while she lay dead next to him Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:29 AM PST  Millane, 21, died after a Tinder date with a man in Auckland, New Zealand, last December. Her body was found a week later in woods outside the city.
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| Chicago teachers to vote on agreement that guarantees 16% raise, $35M to reduce classes Posted: 14 Nov 2019 08:23 AM PST  Chicago teachers will begin voting on a tentative contract deal that ended an 11-day strike in the nation's third-largest school district last month.
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| FEATURE-On China's Yangtze river, giant dam's legacy blocks revival Posted: 13 Nov 2019 10:02 PM PST ![FEATURE-On China's Yangtze river, giant dam's legacy blocks revival]( "FEATURE-On China's Yangtze river, giant dam's legacy blocks revival") The 2,000 residents of Muhe, whose village was moved to higher ground a decade ago to escape the rising Yangtze River, have tried to make the most of their remaining land by planting orchards of oranges and persimmons along its banks. With just 110 hectares on the edge of Asia's longest river, Muhe lost half its territory to make way for the colossal Three Gorges Project, a 185-metre dam and 660-kilometre reservoir designed to control flooding, aid navigation and generate electricity. Beijing has allocated more than 600 billion yuan ($86 billion) since 2011 to alleviate the dam's long-term impacts on villages like Muhe and bring the region's deteriorating environment under "effective control".
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| Tribe to argue against expansion of Dakota Access pipeline Posted: 12 Nov 2019 02:39 PM PST ![Tribe to argue against expansion of Dakota Access pipeline]( "Tribe to argue against expansion of Dakota Access pipeline") Standing Rock Sioux Tribe members have long maintained that a leak in the Dakota Access oil pipeline would threaten their Missouri River water supply, and on Wednesday they will argue that a new proposal to double the line's capacity magnifies the probability of a disastrous oil spill. North Dakota regulators will hold a hearing in Linton, a town of 1,000 along the pipeline's path. The Public Service Commission will take comments from tribe members and other pipeline opponents in the community near where a pump station would be placed to increase the line's capacity from 600,000 barrels per day to as much as 1.1 million barrels.
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| Gusty winds to return and reignite fire risk across California Posted: 14 Nov 2019 02:58 AM PST  While California residents continue to wait for an unusually late start to the wet season, a period of gusty winds will increase the fire threat across parts of the state.A storm system moving into the northwestern United States on Friday will bring areas of rain and mountain snow to the region.Late on Friday and into the weekend this storm system will drop south through the Rocky Mountains, where it can bring accumulating snow to some of the higher peaks.As this storm continues to sink south on Saturday, an area of high pressure will build into the Northwest.This will cause northeasterly winds to increase across Northern and Central California on Saturday. Wind gusts are expected to reach between 20 and 40 mph, especially in the northeast- to southwest-oriented mountain passes.By Saturday night the high is forecast to slide southwest toward the Great Basin and winds in Northern California will begin to decrease.Meanwhile, gusts across Southern California will begin to increase as a Santa Ana wind event develops.Wind gusts are expected to peak between 35 to 55 mph in the northeast- to southwest-oriented mountain passes and canyons before gradually tapering off into Monday.As is typical with an offshore wind events, conditions across the region will begin to trend warmer throughout the weekend."Winds with this event will be weaker than the past couple of Santa Ana events," stated AccuWeather Meteorologist Max Gawryla. "But any gusty winds coupled with the prevailing dry conditions can increase the fire threat across the region."As dry conditions continue across the region, any spark can set a fire and gusty winds can help to spread any new and existing fires faster. This threat will loom over the region until the wet season starts.The wet season in California typically runs from Oct. 1 to May 1, but residents across the state are still waiting for the first drops of relief."The 2019-2020 season will likely be the third latest start to the wet season as rain-free conditions look to continue into this weekend," added Gawryla. There is potential for a storm system to bring a little rain to Northern California during the early part of next week.However, at this time rain showers look to be widely separated and the storm track looks to stay too far north to kick off the wet season and bring relief from the fire threat in Northern California. Download the free AccuWeather app to follow the forecast for your area. Keep checking back on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.
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| U.S. Military Assistance Cannot Fix Mexico's Cartel Mayhem Posted: 13 Nov 2019 09:11 AM PST  Drone strikes or U.S. special forces missions will not solve Mexico's cartel and drug problems. Trump needs to resist the temptation to adopt a futile, counterproductive military option in the country.
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| Ruth Bader Ginsburg misses Supreme Court hearings due to illness Posted: 13 Nov 2019 11:05 AM PST  Ruth Bader Ginsburg was missing from oral arguments at the US Supreme Court on Wednesday morning after contracting a stomach virus.Chief Justice John Roberts announced that the court's oldest justice, at 86 years old, was "indisposed due to an illness" but would be following the week's cases by reading briefs from home. It's the second time within the past year that she has missed arguments due to an illness.
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| Russia blames fatal plane crash on pilots, including one who lied to get license Posted: 14 Nov 2019 03:18 AM PST  A plane crash that killed all 50 people on board at Russia's Kazan Airport in 2013 was the result of errors made by two pilots, including one who got his license using falsified documents, Russian investigators said on Thursday. The Boeing 737-500 aircraft was operated by the now-defunct Tatarstan Airlines, which later had its license revoked by Russia's Federal Air Transport Agency, Rosaviatsiya. The plane from Moscow had been trying to abort its landing when it nose-dived into the runway and burst into flames.
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