| UPDATE 1-Killed American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight -relatives Posted: 06 Nov 2019 06:45 PM PST ![UPDATE 1-Killed American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight -relatives]( "UPDATE 1-Killed American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight -relatives") The nine American women and children killed in northern Mexico were victims of a territorial dispute between an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel and a rival gang, officials said on Wednesday, and may have been used to lure one side into a firefight. Members of breakaway Mormon communities that settled in Mexico decades ago, the three families were ambushed as they drove along a dirt track in Sonora state, leading to U.S. President Donald Trump urging Mexico and the United States to "wage war' together on the drug cartels. Accounts emerging of Monday morning's slayings detailed the heroism of a surviving boy who walked for miles to get help for his siblings, and heavy gun battles in the remote hill area that lasted for hours into the night after the attack.
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| Fox News's Sean Hannity furiously demands 'ALL OF YOU STOP LYING ABOUT ME' after Ukraine claims emerge Posted: 08 Nov 2019 02:49 AM PST  Fox news host Sean Hannity has demanded people "stop lying" about him after it was revealed he had been mentioned by two separate officials in their testimonies to the impeachment committee as it seeks evidence to remove Donald Trump from office.Hannity was mentioned in the investigation into the president by both the former Ukrainian Ambassador Marie Yovanovitch and George Kent, a State Department Deputy Assistant Secretary who oversees the eastern-European country.
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| Iranian beauty queen wins asylum in Philippines Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:19 AM PST  An Iranian beauty queen sought by Tehran on criminal charges has been granted political asylum in the Philippines, an official said Friday, ending a three-week standoff at Manila airport. Bahareh Zare Bahari, based in the Philippines since 2014, was denied entry into the Southeast Asian nation on October 17 when she returned from Dubai, with Philippine authorities citing an Iranian warrant for her arrest. Claiming Tehran wanted to punish her for opposition to Iran's theocratic regime, Bahari then sought refugee status, holed up in a room at Manila's international airport and using social media to rally support from the international community -- including a plea to Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte.
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| Mexico farm town buries 3 of 9 slain Americans Posted: 07 Nov 2019 04:07 PM PST  As Mexican soldiers stood guard, a mother and two sons were laid to rest in hand-hewn pine coffins in a single grave dug out of the rocky soil Thursday at the first funeral for the victims of a drug cartel ambush that left nine American women and children dead. Clad in shirt sleeves, suits or modest dresses, about 500 mourners embraced in grief under white tents erected in La Mora, a hamlet of about 300 people who consider themselves Mormon but are not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Members of the extended community — many of whom, like the victims, are dual U.S-Mexican citizens — had built the coffins themselves and used shovels to dig the shared grave in La Mora's small cemetery.
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| Hillary Clinton slams Sanders's and Warren's wealth-tax plans as 'incredibly disruptive' and 'unworkable' Posted: 07 Nov 2019 11:38 AM PST  Hillary Clinton called the wealth taxes proposed by Sens. Bernie Sanders and Elizabeth Warren "unworkable" and said they would be "incredibly disruptive" if enforced.
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| View Photos of 2020 Porsche 911 Turbo S Prototype Posted: 06 Nov 2019 03:01 PM PST |
| 'You're not a serial killer, right?' victim text-messaged man before she died Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:33 AM PST  In testimony, it was revealed that Sarah Butler asked accused murderer Khalil Wheeler-Weaver if he was a serial killer — hours before she died.
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| Don't Sleep on North Korea's Large (But Really) Old Submarine Fleet Posted: 07 Nov 2019 05:42 AM PST  It only takes one torpedo to kill a lot of people.
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| Killed American family may have been 'bait' in Mexican cartel fight: relatives Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:29 AM PST  The nine American women and children killed in northern Mexico were victims of a territorial dispute between an arm of the Sinaloa Cartel and a rival gang, officials said on Wednesday, and may have been used to lure one side into a firefight. Members of breakaway Mormon communities that settled in Mexico decades ago, the three families were ambushed as they drove along a dirt track in Sonora state, leading to U.S. President Donald Trump urging Mexico and the United States to "wage war' together on the drug cartels. Accounts emerging of Monday morning's slayings detailed the heroism of a surviving boy who walked for miles to get help for his siblings, and heavy gun battles in the remote hill area that lasted for hours into the night after the attack.
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| How the Mid-Engine Corvette Helped Chevy Make a Better Small Block Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:54 AM PST  We went to GM's racing headquarters in Pontiac, Michigan to learn all about the C8 Corvette's LT2 V-8, and how it improves on the legendary small block.
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| Divers Salvage 100-Year-Old Liquor from WWI Shipwreck Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:30 PM PST  And it might still be drinkable.
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| Bolivian Mayor Has Hair Forcibly Cut by Masked Protesters as Post-Election Violence Continues Posted: 07 Nov 2019 10:18 AM PST  Vinto Mayor Patricia Arce was covered in red paint and had her hair cut in violence after President Evo Morales's contested election.
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| Ford Mustang Jack Roush Edition Has It All: 775 HP and a Manual Transmission Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:00 AM PST  The acclaimed Ford tuner outdoes even the Shelby GT500 in power, thanks to Roush's in-house-designed supercharger.
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| Child seats in Italy to be fitted with alarms after spate of deaths of children trapped in hot cars Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:11 PM PST  Parents of babies and toddlers will be required to use special alarmed child seats under a new law in Italy, in response to a spate of children dying in cars from extreme heat. Parents who fail to buy the alarmed car seats, or buy alarm attachments, face fines of up to €326 and five points being docked from their driving licence. If, within two years, a parent is caught again without the special seat, their driving licence will be suspended for two weeks. The special car seats work by motion sensor and set off audio alarms and flashing lights if a child is left alone in the car. Devices can also be linked to a parent's mobile phone. Under the law adopted on Thursday, they are now compulsory for all children under the age of four. The government has promised to contribute €30 to each family that has to buy the specially-equipped seats, which cost around €100. It will operate on a first-come-first-served basis, with warnings that there is unlikely to be enough money for every family in the country. The law was introduced in response to cases of babies and children dying in cars after being accidentally forgotten by their parents or carers during the scorching heat of summer. It applies not only to Italians but to foreigners visiting the country. An Italian road safety group said that parents "need to hurry" to buy the seats or fit alarms to their existing seats, or risk fines and the docking of licence points. Aside from car accidents and collisions, heat stroke is the main cause of vehicle-related death for children under the age of 15, according to the American Academy of Paediatrics. A small child's body heats up much faster than that of an adult's and vital organs start to shut down quicker.
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| Vietnam to Check Huawei, Xiaomi Phones for Disputed Map: Report Posted: 07 Nov 2019 06:39 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Vietnam will inspect all phones imported from China, such as Huawei and Xiaomi models, the Tuoi Tre newspaper reports citing Nguyen Hung Anh, head of Vietnam Customs' anti-smuggling and investigation department.At issue is whether the Chinese-made phones come with preinstalled navigation apps that use maps reflecting Chinese territorial claims rejected by Hanoi, such as the expansive nine-dash line claims in the South China Sea that overlap resource-rich maritime areas Vietnam says are within in its exclusive economic waters. The U.S. has said the area under dispute could contain oil and gas reserves worth $2.5 trillion.Vietnam has been the most aggressive Southeast Asian nation pushing back on Chinese maritime claims. Its ships directly confront Chinese vessels off its coast in disputed territorial waters and the government bans and removes products that reference China's controversial claims to large swaths of the South China Sea, from T-shirts worn by tourists to Hollywood movies.Vietnam last week seized all seven car models from China's Hanteng Autos for using the China's disputed map, the newspaper reported yesterday, citing Vietnam Customs Head Nguyen Van Can. Earlier, Vietnam said it would penalize Volkswagen AG's local distributor and an importer for displaying a Touareg CR745J car at a motor show last month that featured the nine-dash line in the navigation map.The country also recently blocked screening of a Dreamworks Animation movie "Abominable," co-produced with a Chinese company, that included a scene showing the nine-dash line.Vietnam Customs will send instructions to its local branches soon, the newspaper said. The agency, which typically responds only to formal requests made on paper, did not immediately respond to a request for comment via phone.(Updates with additional details of Vietnamese response, starting in third paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Mai Ngoc Chau in Ho Chi Minh City at cmai9@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Chua Baizhen at bchua14@bloomberg.net, Derek Wallbank, John BoudreauFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Biden and Buttigieg Are Road Kill if They Stay in the Middle Lane Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:05 AM PST  So the moderates have started to unload on the lefties. That's the story line in the wake of Elizabeth Warren's bumpy rollout of her Medicare for All funding plan last week. They smell a chance to arrest her momentum.So Joe Biden took a swipe at Warren on Medium.com without naming her: "Some call it the 'my way or the highway' approach to politics. But it's worse than that. It's condescending to the millions of Democrats who have a different view. It's representative of an elitism that working- and middle-class people do not share: 'We know best; you know nothing.' 'If you were only as smart as I am you would agree with me.' This is no way to get anything done."Pete Buttigieg bought a ticket for the Bash Warren Express, too. "We will fight when we must fight, but I will never allow us to get so wrapped up in the fighting that we start to think fighting is the point," he said at last Friday's Iowa Liberty & Justice Celebration, just hours after Warren released her plan.It was inevitable that Warren was going to absorb hits like that once she became a, or the, front-runner. They would have come even if she didn't open herself up to attack with a plan that, if my Twitter and Facebook feeds are any indication, even some of her admirers found perplexing. But given that she did that, the hits were double-inevitable.They're understandable, but I don't think flicking jabs at Warren is going to get them very far. No. If the "moderates"—a word I don't like, because their programs are pretty liberal; to the left of what Barack Obama ran on in 2008—want to steal a march on Warren, they need to do something else. They need to talk about themselves, not her.Specifically, they need to say: Look, my plan isn't moderate! My plan is big and bold and powerful! Are you kidding me? Ten years ago, a public option was considered too radical for the Democratic Party to pass. Now it's some gutless sellout position? Give me a break. They're not doing much of that. In debates and interviews, when they start talking about their plans, they tend to emphasize things about how their health-care plans are more realistic, less expensive, more reasonable. I saw Buttigieg being interviewed on Morning Joe Monday. Mika asked him about Warren's health-care plan and his, and he said: "We need to make sure there is an ironclad explanation of how to fund things. What I'm offering is something that can very clearly be paid for with a combination of a rollback of the Trump corporate-tax-rate cut and the savings we're gonna get by allowing Medicare to negotiate with drug companies… My plan is better because it's dramatically more affordable and because it allows you to choose your plan." To be fair, he did also say that his plan—an option for people to buy into Medicare, basically—represented a "bold change that would be the biggest thing we've done to Medicare since we implemented it in the first place." But he didn't emphasize it. He kinda snuck it in there. But that sentence should be what he wants listeners to take away.My point is this: Biden, Buttigieg, Kamala Harris, Cory Booker, and Amy Klobuchar are all fighting for the "middle lane" here, so all will exhibit a natural tendency to pitch themselves as reasonable and responsible, unlike Warren and Sanders. I get that. They want to reassure general-election voters—and probably to some extent the media.But at the same time, they don't want to come across as visionless incrementalists, either. They don't want to let Sanders and Warren and their supporters paint them as do-nothings.Biden in particular ought to be saying something like: "There's this line out there about me that I just want some kind of 'Restoration.' That I just want things to go back to being the way they were before Trump. Nothing could be further from the truth. I have an agenda, and it's a big agenda. Public option. A $15 minimum wage. A Green New Deal. A big infrastructure plan. Plans to protect and strengthen workers that even Sanders and Warren don't have. So I have a lot I want to do. Don't be fooled into believing that I just wanna get in there and host ceremonies and hand out medals." Talk like that could do him a world of good with primary voters.And Warren, for her part, may now be entering a phase where she needs to take a little of the edge off her leftism (I don't like that word very much either; all these labels miss important nuances). She might want to think about reassuring voters that she doesn't seek eternal class conflict, which fairly or not is increasingly the tag on her. Even a lot of voters who adore her and want class conflict are a little nervous about whether that's the path to electability.The next debate is in two weeks—Wednesday, Nov. 20 in Atlanta. These debates, especially the last two or three, have been about the two ideological camps drawing lines in the sand. Maybe next time, the advantage will go to the candidate who blurs them a little and surprises people and shows that he or she can't just be put in one ideological box. The Democratic Party has a lot of those boxes, and the nominee is going to be the person who checks the highest number of them. 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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| War crimes judges jail Congolese warlord Ntaganda for 30 years Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:17 AM PST  The International Criminal Court sentenced former Congolese military leader Bosco Ntaganda on Thursday to 30 years in prison for atrocities including murder, rape and conscripting child soldiers. Ntaganda, 46, was found guilty in July on 18 charges of war crimes and crimes against humanity for acts committed when he was military chief of the Union of Congolese Patriots (UPC) militia in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo in 2002-2003. At Thursday's sentencing, Judge Robert Fremr said there were no real mitigating circumstances and issued the 30-year sentence, the longest handed down by the Hague court to date.
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| Woman claims she was 'slut-shamed' by airline Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:11 PM PST  An Australian woman said she was "publicly slut-shamed" by two Jetstar airline employees while trying to board a flight at Sydney Airport.
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| A New Arab Spring Is Unfolding in Iraq and Lebanon. But Things Could Get Bloody If Iran Gets Its Way Posted: 07 Nov 2019 10:05 AM PST  A new Arab Spring is unfolding in Lebanon and Iraq as citizens lead protests. But Iran's involvement could be dangerous for protesters.
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| The Latest: Pilot dies as plane crashes into California home Posted: 07 Nov 2019 01:40 PM PST ![The Latest: Pilot dies as plane crashes into California home]( "The Latest: Pilot dies as plane crashes into California home") Police say the pilot of a small plane that crashed into a Southern California home has died. Upland police Capt. Marcelo Blanco said Thursday that authorities believe the pilot was the only person aboard the single-engine Cirrus SR22. Blanco says authorities don't know what caused the plane to crash into the residence, igniting a fire.
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| Hong Kong Student Death Fuels Anger Before Weekend Protests Posted: 08 Nov 2019 07:43 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Protesters hit the streets of Hong Kong Friday after a student who fell in a parking garage near a protest earlier this week died, a development that threatened to inflame more demonstrations planned for the weekend.Chow Tsz-lok suffered a brain injury after falling early Monday as police carried out a dispersal operation nearby using tear gas. A spokesman for the Hospital Authority confirmed Friday that he was certified dead at 8:09 a.m.While some demonstrators have committed suicide during the prolonged period of protests, nobody has been confirmed dead as a direct result of a clash between police and demonstrators. Anger over police tactics -- and injured protesters -- has been a major focus of recent rallies."Considering it's the first death that's happened at a police-people confrontation scene, it will certainly add fuel to the already strong fire of anger -- particularly when people generally have absolutely no trust in the system, and the police," said Alvin Yeung, a pro-democracy lawmaker.Hong Kong police officials again denied their officers had chased and pushed Chow, emphasizing during a Friday afternoon press conference that he had been seen walking around the car park alone in CCTV footage. Police officers entered the car park twice that night, once during a patrol before Chow entered, and the second time after firemen were already attending to him, said Suzette Foo, the force's Senior Superintendent of the Kowloon East region.She called for a coroner's inquiry into his death.Protesters held a memorial for Chow before a lunchtime rally in the city center Friday, and calls for "flash mob"-style demonstrations marking his death were trending on online protester forums."We are very sad about the incident, we do not know what's the next step," said a 31-year-old bank employee who asked to be identified by the surname Tam as she protested in centrally located Chater Garden. She said the midday rally was about showing that Hong Kong people "have not let go" of grievances that have fueled months of protest.Chow, 22, was a second year computer science undergraduate at Hong Kong University of Science and Technology, according to the South China Morning Post newspaper, which reported the death earlier Friday. University President Wei Shyy briefly paused the school's graduation ceremony to announce Chow's death and observe a moment of silence.The death comes after five months of historic unrest in the region's main financial hub. Sparked by a since-withdrawn bill that would have allowed extraditions to mainland China, the protest movement expanded to include calls for greater democracy, morphing into the biggest challenge to Beijing's rule over the former colony since its return to China in 1997.Hong Kong's government said it was "deeply saddened" and offered condolences to Chow's family in a statement responding to media inquiries about his death.'Freedom Fighter'Prominent activist Joshua Wong mourned Chow's death and called him a "freedom fighter.""Today we mourn the loss of the freedom fighter in HK. We will not leave anyone behind - what we start together, we finish together. Given the losses suffered by HK society in the past month, the gov must pay the price," he tweeted.The death comes amid a week of violence that saw an outspoken politician stabbed while campaigning, raising concerns about whether the city will be able to hold upcoming district council elections. The lawmaker, Junius Ho -- known for his inflammatory comments against protesters and pro-democracy politicians -- suffered only minor injuries.On Thursday, the government's Electoral Affairs Commission issued an appeal for the "public to keep calm and return to rationality" ahead of the vote, currently scheduled for Nov. 24. "The community is also urged to stop all threats and violence to support the holding of election in a peaceful and orderly manner," it said.China foreign ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said Friday that stopping violence and restoring social order was "the most pressing issue in Hong Kong right now."Hong Kong police arrested opposition lawmakers Au Nok-hin, Raymond Chan, Eddie Chu and Lam Cheuk-ting later on Friday, Now TV reported. Chu said on his Facebook page that he was arrested for breaching the Legislative Council ordinance at an extradition bill committee meeting on May 11; the arrest of the others could not be immediately confirmed.(Updates with report of arrest of lawmakers in final paragraph.)To contact the reporters on this story: Iain Marlow in Hong Kong at imarlow1@bloomberg.net;Josie Wong in Hong Kong at jwong836@bloomberg.net;Natalie Lung in Hong Kong at flung6@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Scott at bscott66@bloomberg.net, ;Daniel Ten Kate at dtenkate@bloomberg.net, Karen LeighFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 'Super' Aircraft Carrier: USS Franklin Roosevelt Made Some Serious History Posted: 07 Nov 2019 12:33 AM PST  The story of one supercarrier.
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| Many attacks at public schools could be prevented: U.S. Secret Service Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:48 PM PST  The study, which focused not only on mass shootings but other acts of targeted violence such as knifings, bolstered previous research on the warning signs students often exhibit before committing deadly violence at their school. The Secret Service, which is primarily tasked with protecting the U.S. president and other elected officials, has analyzed school violence since the 1999 mass shooting at Columbine High School in Colorado. The report did not include the deadliest shooting at a high school in U.S. history, the killing of 17 people at Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida, that a lone gunman carried out on Feb. 14, 2018.
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| Mexico prison raid leads to chaos in border city Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:05 PM PST ![Mexico prison raid leads to chaos in border city]( "Mexico prison raid leads to chaos in border city") As 850 Mexican local, state and federal security personnel prepared to raid a big state prison near the U.S. border, criminals inside orchestrated a wave of chaos outside the walls in Ciudad Juarez. "At least eight of these murders were tied to the diversion issue," Chihuahua state prosecutor Jorge Nava said. Four men who were arrested in the violence said they were paid in methamphetamine to wreak havoc, Nava said at a news conference.
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| Stephen Colbert Nails Lindsey Graham’s Impeachment ‘Ignorance’ Posted: 06 Nov 2019 08:13 PM PST  "When the facts aren't on your side, your only hope is ignorance," Stephen Colbert said in his Late Show monologue Wednesday night. Which brought him to Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC).Last month, Graham told Axios that he was not entirely ruling out the idea of voting to remove Donald Trump from the presidency. "If you could show me that, you know, Trump actually was engaging in a quid pro quo, outside the phone call, that would be very disturbing," he told Jonathan Swan. "Well, the transcripts clearly show that," Colbert said of the witness testimony that has already been released by the House Intelligence Committee. "But…"The host then cut to more recent video of Graham telling reporters that he would not be reading those transcripts. "I've written the whole process off," he said. "I think this is a bunch of B.S.""How tragic," Colbert replied. "Graham is clearly working through the five stages of Republican impeachment grief: anger, denial, won't read, can't read, no hablo ingles." Speaking directly to Graham—"I'm sure you're watching"—Colbert offered to summarize the transcripts in three little words: "QUID PRO QUO." Samantha Bee Embarrasses Chuck Todd for Terrible Election TakeRead 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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| Robots 'not evil' says Boston Dynamics as humanoids go viral Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:41 AM PST  As videos of robot-like dogs made by Boston Dynamics go viral on the internet, the humanoids' uncanny abilities have also sparked worries that they could become a threat to humans. Not so, says their creator Marc Raibert in an interview with AFP at the Lisbon Web Summit, claiming that the Spot robots aren't evil and won't be turned into weapons. US engineering and robotics firm Boston Dynamics, founded in 1992, was in 2013 bought by Google, which sold the firm on to Japan's Softbank in 2017.
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| Ohio police officer shot while executing search warrant has died, department said Posted: 07 Nov 2019 12:16 PM PST  Detective Jorge DelRio was carrying out a search warrant when he was shot. The injuries suffered were "tragically not survivable," police said.
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| China calls Hong Kong protesters 'mobsters' after stabbing Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:22 PM PST  China has slammed radical protesters in Hong Kong as "mobsters" using violence to influence upcoming local elections, after a pro-Beijing lawmaker was injured in a stabbing. The international finance hub has been shaken by five months of huge and increasingly violent protests calling for greater democratic freedoms and police accountability. With Beijing and Hong Kong's unpopular leader Carrie Lam refusing to offer a political solution to the protesters' grievances, violence has spiralled on both sides of the ideological divide.
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| What First-Time Homebuyers Should Know About Closing Costs Posted: 08 Nov 2019 06:35 AM PST ![What First-Time Homebuyers Should Know About Closing Costs]( "What First-Time Homebuyers Should Know About Closing Costs") Closing costs are easy to overlook when you're buying your first home, as you're probably most concerned about the house purchase price, your down payment and the mortgage interest rate. Here are some tips on how to plan ahead for closing costs. Closing costs are fees and expenses that allow you to finalize a home purchase, including mortgage-related fees, property title insurance and taxes.
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| Indian WhatsApp users ask government to explain ties with Israeli firm in privacy breach case Posted: 08 Nov 2019 04:40 AM PST  A group of Indians including journalists and lawyers whose phones were hacked via Facebook's WhatsApp messaging platform asked the government on Friday to make public its ties with the Israeli firm accused of deploying the spyware. WhatsApp last week sued Israel's NSO Group, accusing it of helping clients break into the phones of roughly 1,400 users - including diplomats, political dissidents, journalists, military and government officials - across four continents. NSO denied the allegations and said it sells technology to governments to counter terrorism.
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| Celebrities, others ask Texas to halt inmate's execution Posted: 07 Nov 2019 03:14 PM PST  Supporters of a Texas death row inmate who is facing lethal injection in less than two weeks for a murder he says he didn't commit are mounting a final push in the courts and on social media to stop his execution, which is being called into question by lawmakers, pastors, celebrities and the European Union. Rodney Reed is set to be executed on Nov. 20 for the killing of 19-year-old Stacey Stites near the Central Texas city of Bastrop. Reed, 51, has long maintained he didn't kill Stites and that her fiance, former police officer Jimmy Fennell, was the real killer.
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| Could America's F-52 Stealth Fighter Have Been Better Than The F-35? Posted: 07 Nov 2019 11:57 PM PST  We'll never know--as the F-52 doesn't exist.
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| Russia may have taken Israel's most advanced missile from Syria — and could figure out how to defeat it Posted: 06 Nov 2019 01:40 PM PST  Experts worry that the Russian military could learn how to defeat the missile system or refine its air defense systems.
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| Man serving life sentence says it ended once he died, was revived in medical emergency Posted: 07 Nov 2019 02:43 PM PST  An Iowa man convicted of murder was rushed from prison to a hospital where his heart was restarted five times. He claims he should be freed.
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| Muslim preachers must speak German to work in the country under proposed law Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:56 AM PST  All imams who work in Germany will in future have to prove they can speak the German language, under a draft law for religious leaders introduced by the government. The bill, which passed cabinet on Wednesday, means that foreign preachers will only be granted work visas if they can demonstrate basic German. They would then need to show improvements in their language skills after a year in order to prolong their stay. Although it applies to all religious preachers, the coalition treaty signed by the German government - which includes the rule - specifically refers to imams. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer hailed it as "a vital contribution for successful integration in Germany." The government justified the move by saying that imams have a central role to play as models of integration for other immigrants, who often turn to mosques for help when they first arrive. However, the media has reported concerns about clerics preaching in other languages for several years. There are no official figures on the number of mosques in Germany, nor on where their funding comes from. But authorities suspect that Gulf states including Saudi Arabia have been financing the construction of some mosques in order to spread the fundamentalist Wahhabi Islam practised on the Arabian peninsula. Conservatives complain that, as long as imams preach in other languages, they will feel free to espouse views hostile to democracy. Interior Minister Horst Seehofer said the bill was 'a vital contribution for successful integration' but others disagree Credit: Abdulhamid Hosbas/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images But Germany's Green party attacked the draft law, saying it will exacerbate the already acute shortage of imams to serve the country's growing Muslim population. According to a recent study, over 90 percent of imams active in Germany come from abroad. Criticism also came from the Islamic community. Bekir Altaş, head of the Millî Görüş mosque association, said that many Muslim associations had made German language skills a requirement for preaching in their mosques years ago. "The government's plans smack of populism. The portrayal of language skills equating with 'good imams' is dangerous - it downplays German-speaking hate preachers who use their rhetorical abilities to gain notoriety, while ignoring the good work done by other preachers in their native tongue," Altaş said. The bill now goes to the Bundestag, where it is expected to be approved.
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| Huge trove of mammoth skeletons found in Mexico Posted: 06 Nov 2019 03:31 PM PST  Archaeologists said Wednesday they have made the largest-ever discovery of mammoth remains: a trove of 800 bones from at least 14 of the extinct giants found in central Mexico. The skeletal remains were found in Tultepec, near the site where President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador's government is building a new airport for Mexico City. The herds grew, reproduced, died, were hunted... They lived alongside other species, including horses and camels," archaeologist Luis Cordoba told journalists.
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| Where Does California's Homeless Population Come From? Posted: 07 Nov 2019 04:54 AM PST  Today, we have a dispatch from our colleague Marie Tae McDermott, who tackled the latest installment of our series answering readers' questions about inequality in California:Christine Kroger, a reader from Stockton, wrote: "Where are the homeless people from? If they are transplants, when did they come to California, what brought them here, and how did they end up in their current circumstances?"Another reader, Jim, from Santa Cruz, wrote that he believed "many, if not most" of the homeless people he saw were not native Californians. He asked: "Why is California bearing the brunt of this national crisis?"Elizabeth Erickson, a reader in Seattle, echoed his sentiments, saying: "Do many homeless or near-homeless move to politically liberal areas, making the assumption that they will receive more assistance?"As the data shows us, most of the homeless people you pass on the streets every day are in fact Californians. Some may have rented an apartment or once owned a home in your neighborhood. Now they sleep in an encampment near the freeway you take to work each morning."This is a local crisis and a homegrown problem," said Peter Lynn, the executive director of the Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority, the agency that conducts the largest homeless census count in the country.Several years ago, LAHSA added a question to its homeless survey that captured how long a person had been in Los Angeles and where they became homeless. The resulting data dispelled the idea that the homeless population was largely made up of people from out of state."The vast majority fell into homelessness in LA County," Lynn said.LAHSA's 2019 homeless count found that 64% of the 58,936 Los Angeles County residents experiencing homelessness had lived in the city for more than 10 years. Less than a fifth (18%) said they had lived out of state before becoming homeless.In San Francisco, 43% of the homeless said they had lived in the city for more than 10 years.The path to becoming homeless can start with a large medical bill that causes someone to fall behind on their rent payments, which leads to eventual eviction. More than half of the people surveyed in Los Angeles cited economic hardship as the primary reason that they fell into homelessness. In San Francisco, 26% of the homeless surveyed cited the loss of a job as the primary cause.The survey also found that nearly a quarter (23%) of unsheltered adults lost their housing in 2018 and were experiencing homelessness for the first time. In Los Angeles, a renter earning minimum wage ($13.25 an hour) would need to work 79 hours per week to afford a one-bedroom apartment.Data about migration to California from other states among the housed population showed that the largest group of transplants to the state were actually college-educated professionals, ranging from 20 to 29, from Illinois, New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania. Over the past five years, California has gained 162,000 more college graduates from other states than it has lost."I hear a lot of people complain that the homeless people are all from 'somewhere else,'" wrote Kroger of Stockton, a lifelong Californian. "I think it might raise empathy and compassion if it turns out that the majority of the people who have been displaced are from the very communities in which they are now trying to survive on the streets."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company
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| UPDATE 10-Hong Kong mourning for student spirals into street violence Posted: 07 Nov 2019 07:05 PM PST ![UPDATE 10-Hong Kong mourning for student spirals into street violence]( "UPDATE 10-Hong Kong mourning for student spirals into street violence") Candlelight Hong Kong vigils mourning a student who died on Friday after a high fall during a pro-democracy rally quickly spiralled into street fires, bursts of tear gas and cat-and-mouse clashes between pro-democracy protesters and police. The centre of violence was on Nathan Road, in the Kowloon district of Mong Kok, one of the most densely populated locations in the world, where activists built barricades and trashed an entrance to the metro station.
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| Remember, Remember the 8th of November: Indians Recall Cash Ban Posted: 08 Nov 2019 02:19 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- DemonetisationDisaster was among the top trends worldwide on Twitter Friday, the third anniversary of Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ban on high-value currency notes that has since been termed a "total failure" and a "draconian" act.The outcry comes on the day Moody's Investors Service cut India's credit rating outlook to negative, citing a litany of problems from a worsening shadow banking crunch and a prolonged slowdown in the economy. While Modi's government hasn't assessed the impact of the cash ban, several economists and opposition leaders said demonetization devastated supply chains, especially in India's vast informal economy.Twitter recorded more than 63,700 tweets as users flooded the platform with old pictures, videos, newspaper clippings and comments.TV channels showed visuals of members of the youth wing of the main opposition Congress party, who were arrested by police for protesting at the Reserve Bank of India in New Delhi.On Nov. 8, 2016, Modi's administration had overnight invalidated 500 and 1,000 rupee notes, rendering worthless 86% of India's currency at the time. It also issued new 2,000-rupee bills in what it said was a fight against untaxed incomes and counterfeit bills that allegedly funded terrorist activities.This week, some Twitter users paraphrased the British nursery rhyme about gunpowder and treason, urging Indians to "Remember, remember, the 8th of November..."Former Finance Secretary Subhash Chandra Garg, who was abruptly transferred out of the ministry, in a blog post on the eve of the anniversary said that the 2,000-rupee notes are being "hoarded" and can be demonetized without causing any disruption.Others just turned to humor.To contact the reporters on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.net;Melissa Cheok in Singapore at mcheok2@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Jeanette RodriguesFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| Trump Needs to Reestablish Deterrence with Iran Posted: 07 Nov 2019 08:14 AM PST  The escalation ladder with Iran has lost several rungs.
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