From 8720ff94205959ebd547371570b0daf256a13af7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 12:34:47 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 01/11] Method for getting rss from url is created --- rss_reader.py | 43 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 43 insertions(+) create mode 100644 rss_reader.py diff --git a/rss_reader.py b/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2921236 --- /dev/null +++ b/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,43 @@ +import requests +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET + + +def get_news(url, limit=None): + request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if limit is not None and limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + +def get_image(description): + pass + + +def fancy_output(): + pass + + +print(get_news('https://news.yahoo.com/rss')) From c3db1a37ed1217b6b935b1ddb201a995cfe0d087 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Thu, 24 Oct 2019 14:40:28 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 02/11] Methods for news ouput, image reading and description reading were added Every method was wrapped into class --- rss_reader.py | 98 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++------------ 1 file changed, 75 insertions(+), 23 deletions(-) diff --git a/rss_reader.py b/rss_reader.py index 2921236..20f130b 100644 --- a/rss_reader.py +++ b/rss_reader.py @@ -1,43 +1,95 @@ import requests +import re + +import lxml.html as html import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import argparse + +class NewsReader: + def __init__(self, url, limit=None): + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text -def get_news(url, limit=None): - request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') + items[num].update(news_description) - result = request.text - tree = ET.fromstring(result) + return items - items = dict() - items.setdefault('title', ' ') + @staticmethod + def get_image_regexpr(description): + image_url = re.findall(r'src="([^"]+)"', description) + image_description = re.findall(r'alt="([^"]+)"', description) - for head_el in tree[0]: - if head_el.tag == 'title': - items['title'] = head_el.text + return image_url, image_description - for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') - if limit is not None and limit == num: - break + return image_src, image_description - items.setdefault(num, {}) + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) - news_description = dict() + return node.text_content() - for description in item: - news_description[description.tag] = description.text + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + image = NewsReader.get_image(news['description']) - items[num].update(news_description) + # TODO: solve problem with image indexing - return items + image_src = image[0][0] + image_description = image[1][0] + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + image_src, + image_description, + NewsReader.get_description(news['description'])) -def get_image(description): - pass + return result + def fancy_output(self): + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) -def fancy_output(): - pass + print('_' * 100) -print(get_news('https://news.yahoo.com/rss')) +rss = NewsReader('https://news.yahoo.com/rss', limit=2) +rss.fancy_output() From 945bf4872f4ef7abbd4282b6f994b24de16f6c97 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2019 00:39:38 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 03/11] Simple argparse manipulations were added. New features: - from dict to json method created - news format was slightly changed --- rss_reader.py | 84 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-------- 1 file changed, 71 insertions(+), 13 deletions(-) diff --git a/rss_reader.py b/rss_reader.py index 20f130b..2b2c749 100644 --- a/rss_reader.py +++ b/rss_reader.py @@ -3,23 +3,40 @@ import lxml.html as html import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json import argparse +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' + + class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + def __init__(self, url, limit=None): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + self.url = url self.limit = limit self.items = self.get_news() def get_news(self): - request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') + request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') # TODO: catch all errors result = request.text tree = ET.fromstring(result) items = dict() items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] for head_el in tree[0]: if head_el.tag == 'title': @@ -35,12 +52,30 @@ def get_news(self): news_description = dict() for description in item: - news_description[description.tag] = description.text + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text items[num].update(news_description) return items + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0][0] + image_text = image[1][0] + + return text, image_link, image_text + @staticmethod def get_image_regexpr(description): image_url = re.findall(r'src="([^"]+)"', description) @@ -64,20 +99,14 @@ def get_description(description): @staticmethod def news_text(news): - image = NewsReader.get_image(news['description']) - - # TODO: solve problem with image indexing - - image_src = image[0][0] - image_description = image[1][0] result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], news['pubDate'], news['link'], - image_src, - image_description, - NewsReader.get_description(news['description'])) + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) return result @@ -90,6 +119,35 @@ def fancy_output(self): print('_' * 100) + def to_json(self): + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + # json_result = json.loads(json_result) + + return json_result + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='News Reader utility') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Pring result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + elif args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit) + + news.fancy_output() -rss = NewsReader('https://news.yahoo.com/rss', limit=2) -rss.fancy_output() From dfeae2c536533709f00a24e0138d7df7e272d7eb Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:56:21 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 04/11] Setuptools usage was added. As a result were created pacakge intsallation files (*.whl). Because of that project structure changed. rss_reader.py was moved to news_feed directory. --- README.md | 0 __init__.py | 0 build/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/build/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/build/lib/build/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py | 0 .../build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py | 0 .../build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py | 48 +++-- build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py | 179 ++++++++++++++++++ .../build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py | 0 .../build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py | 179 ++++++++++++++++++ build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py | 179 ++++++++++++++++++ build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py | 0 build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py | 179 ++++++++++++++++++ dist/news-feed-0.2.tar.gz | Bin 0 -> 2681 bytes dist/news_feed-0.2-py3-none-any.whl | Bin 0 -> 11382 bytes news_feed.egg-info/PKG-INFO | 14 ++ news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt | 10 + news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt | 1 + news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt | 3 + news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt | 1 + news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt | 2 + news_feed/__init__.py | 0 news_feed/rss_reader.py | 179 ++++++++++++++++++ setup.py | 34 ++++ 29 files changed, 997 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 README.md create mode 100644 __init__.py create mode 100644 build/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/build/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py rename rss_reader.py => build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py (77%) create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py create mode 100644 build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py create mode 100644 build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py create mode 100644 build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py create mode 100644 dist/news-feed-0.2.tar.gz create mode 100644 dist/news_feed-0.2-py3-none-any.whl create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/PKG-INFO create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt create mode 100644 news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt create mode 100644 news_feed/__init__.py create mode 100644 news_feed/rss_reader.py create mode 100644 setup.py diff --git a/README.md b/README.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/__init__.py b/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/__init__.py b/build/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/__init__.py b/build/lib/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/build/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/build/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/rss_reader.py b/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py similarity index 77% rename from rss_reader.py rename to build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py index 2b2c749..6f44907 100644 --- a/rss_reader.py +++ b/build/lib/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py @@ -8,6 +8,7 @@ import argparse PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' class NewsReader: @@ -17,7 +18,7 @@ class NewsReader: @Input: url """ - def __init__(self, url, limit=None): + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): """ :param url: url of rss @@ -26,10 +27,15 @@ def __init__(self, url, limit=None): self.url = url self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + self.items = self.get_news() def get_news(self): - request = requests.get('https://news.yahoo.com/rss') # TODO: catch all errors + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output result = request.text tree = ET.fromstring(result) @@ -71,8 +77,8 @@ def parse_description(description): image = NewsReader.get_image(description) # TODO: deal with image indexing - image_link = image[0][0] - image_text = image[1][0] + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] return text, image_link, image_text @@ -89,6 +95,16 @@ def get_image(description): image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + return image_src, image_description @staticmethod @@ -111,6 +127,9 @@ def news_text(news): return result def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + for key, value in self.items.items(): if key == 'title': print(f'Feed: {value}') @@ -120,19 +139,21 @@ def fancy_output(self): print('_' * 100) def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) - # json_result = json.loads(json_result) return json_result -if __name__ == '__main__': - parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='News Reader utility') +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') - parser.add_argument('--json', help='Pring result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') # TODO: add flags to output logs parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') @@ -142,12 +163,17 @@ def to_json(self): if args.version: print(PROJECT_VERSION) - elif args.json: - news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) print(news.to_json()) else: - news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit) + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) news.fancy_output() + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0453156 --- /dev/null +++ b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +import requests +import re +import datetime + +import lxml.html as html +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json + +import argparse + +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' + + +class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + def cash_news(self): + pass + + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] + + return text, image_link, image_text + + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + + return image_src, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) + + return node.text_content() + + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) + + return result + + def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) + + print('_' * 100) + + def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + + return json_result + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') + + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output() + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f44907 --- /dev/null +++ b/build/lib/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +import requests +import re + +import lxml.html as html +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json + +import argparse + +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' + + +class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] + + return text, image_link, image_text + + @staticmethod + def get_image_regexpr(description): + image_url = re.findall(r'src="([^"]+)"', description) + image_description = re.findall(r'alt="([^"]+)"', description) + + return image_url, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + + return image_src, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) + + return node.text_content() + + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) + + return result + + def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) + + print('_' * 100) + + def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + + return json_result + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output() + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py b/build/lib/news_feed/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0453156 --- /dev/null +++ b/build/lib/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +import requests +import re +import datetime + +import lxml.html as html +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json + +import argparse + +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' + + +class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + def cash_news(self): + pass + + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] + + return text, image_link, image_text + + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + + return image_src, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) + + return node.text_content() + + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) + + return result + + def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) + + print('_' * 100) + + def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + + return json_result + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') + + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output() + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py b/build/lib/news_feed_reader/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py b/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6f44907 --- /dev/null +++ b/build/lib/news_feed_reader/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +import requests +import re + +import lxml.html as html +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json + +import argparse + +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' + + +class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] + + return text, image_link, image_text + + @staticmethod + def get_image_regexpr(description): + image_url = re.findall(r'src="([^"]+)"', description) + image_description = re.findall(r'alt="([^"]+)"', description) + + return image_url, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + + return image_src, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) + + return node.text_content() + + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) + + return result + + def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) + + print('_' * 100) + + def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + + return json_result + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output() + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/dist/news-feed-0.2.tar.gz b/dist/news-feed-0.2.tar.gz new file mode 100644 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Programming Language :: Python :: 3 +Classifier: Operating System :: OS Independent +Requires-Python: >=3.6 +Description-Content-Type: text/markdown diff --git a/news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt b/news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..870fff8 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt @@ -0,0 +1,10 @@ +README.md +setup.py +news_feed/__init__.py +news_feed/rss_reader.py +news_feed.egg-info/PKG-INFO +news_feed.egg-info/SOURCES.txt +news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt +news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt +news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt +news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt \ No newline at end of file diff --git a/news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt b/news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8b13789 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed.egg-info/dependency_links.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ + diff --git a/news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt b/news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1aa40ae --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed.egg-info/entry_points.txt @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +[console_scripts] +rss_reader = news_feed.rss_reader:main + diff --git a/news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt b/news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f2d1975 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed.egg-info/requires.txt @@ -0,0 +1 @@ +lxml>=4.3.0 diff --git a/news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt b/news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..85f2f3e --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed.egg-info/top_level.txt @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +build +news_feed diff --git a/news_feed/__init__.py b/news_feed/__init__.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e69de29 diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0453156 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -0,0 +1,179 @@ +import requests +import re +import datetime + +import lxml.html as html +import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET +import json + +import argparse + +PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' +PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' + + +class NewsReader: + """ + Class for reading news from rss-format files. + + @Input: url + """ + + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + """ + + :param url: url of rss + :param limit: limit of news in feed + """ + + self.url = url + self.limit = limit + self.verbose = verbose + + self.items = self.get_news() + + def get_news(self): + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + + if self.verbose: + print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output + + result = request.text + tree = ET.fromstring(result) + + items = dict() + items.setdefault('title', ' ') + useful_tags = ['title', 'pubDate', 'link', 'description'] + + for head_el in tree[0]: + if head_el.tag == 'title': + items['title'] = head_el.text + + for num, item in enumerate(tree.iter('item')): + + if self.limit is not None and self.limit == num: + break + + items.setdefault(num, {}) + + news_description = dict() + + for description in item: + if description.tag in useful_tags: + news_description[description.tag] = description.text + + text, image_link, image_text = NewsReader.parse_description(news_description['description']) + + news_description['description'] = text + news_description['imageLink'] = image_link + news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text + + items[num].update(news_description) + + return items + + def cash_news(self): + pass + + @staticmethod + def parse_description(description): + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) + image = NewsReader.get_image(description) + + # TODO: deal with image indexing + image_link = image[0] + image_text = image[1] + + return text, image_link, image_text + + @staticmethod + def get_image(description): + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) + image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') + image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') + + if len(image_src) == 0: + image_src = 'No image' + else: + image_src = image_src[0] + + if len(image_description) == 0: + image_description = 'No image description' + else: + image_description = image_description[0] + + return image_src, image_description + + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + node = html.fromstring(description) + + return node.text_content() + + @staticmethod + def news_text(news): + + result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ + "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], + news['pubDate'], + news['link'], + news['imageLink'], + news['imageDescription'], + news['description']) + + return result + + def fancy_output(self): + if self.verbose: + print('News feed is ready') + + for key, value in self.items.items(): + if key == 'title': + print(f'Feed: {value}') + else: + print(self.news_text(value)) + + print('_' * 100) + + def to_json(self): + if self.verbose: + print('Json was created') + + json_result = json.dumps(self.items) + + return json_result + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') + + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output() + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main() diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..734c7a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/setup.py @@ -0,0 +1,34 @@ +from setuptools import setup, find_packages + +with open('README.md', 'r') as file: + long_description = file.read() + + +setup( + name='news-feed', + version='0.2', + description='News aggregator', + long_description=long_description, + long_description_content_type='text/markdown', + + py_modules=['news_feed.rss_reader'], + author='Vadim Titko', + author_email='Vadbeg@tut.by', + url='https://github.com/Vadbeg/news_feed_reader', + + packages=find_packages(), + classifiers=[ + "Programming Language :: Python :: 3", + "Operating System :: OS Independent" + ], + + entry_points={ + 'console_scripts': [ + 'rss_reader = news_feed.rss_reader:main' + ] + }, + + install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0'], + python_requires='>=3.6' +) + From 0cf5b6b0d20195e141b49224e02840ef21c0b8de Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Tue, 29 Oct 2019 23:01:01 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 05/11] News cashing was added to method _cash_news --- news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv | 2 + news_feed/rss_reader.py | 110 +++++++++++++++++++++---------- setup.py | 2 +- 4 files changed, 79 insertions(+), 37 deletions(-) create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..921c77c --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Washington Post changes al-Baghdadi headline that called terror leader an 'austere religious scholar',"Critics, including President Trump�s children, blasted the paper for an obituary headline that did not portray the ISIS leader's brutality.",https://news.yahoo.com/washington-post-al-baghdadi-obit-headline-austere-religious-scholar-143726879.html,"Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:37:26 -0400",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7rwCo096GFtbwM3xksJyJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e89af620-f98f-11e9-a7fb-7c7ac5390849,Washington Post changes al-Baghdadi headline that called terror leader an 'austere religious scholar' diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ac302e7 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +"Australian sentenced to 36 years for murder, rape of Israeli","An Australian judge sentenced a man to 36 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder and rape of an Israeli student whom he bludgeoned into unconsciousness moments after she stepped off a tram in Melbourne before setting her corpse on fire. Victoria state Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth ordered Codey Herrmann, 21, to serve at least 30 years behind bars for his crimes against 21-year-old Aiia Maasarwe last January. The judge said she would have sentenced Herrmann to 40 years in prison with 35 years to be served before he became eligible for parole if he had not pleaded guilty in the face of an overwhelming prosecution case.",https://news.yahoo.com/australian-sentenced-36-years-murder-070115167.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:19:51 -0400",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0CYJ1TXh_l4vlv6ue7nf4w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dd0e716151b3d52cbd8a634fb73ee4e8,"Australian sentenced to 36 years for murder, rape of Israeli" diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index 0453156..2dc3905 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -1,10 +1,14 @@ import requests import re +import os + import datetime +from dateutil.parser import parse import lxml.html as html import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET import json +import csv import argparse @@ -19,7 +23,7 @@ class NewsReader: @Input: url """ - def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): + def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False, cashing=False): """ :param url: url of rss @@ -29,6 +33,7 @@ def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False): self.url = url self.limit = limit self.verbose = verbose + self.cashing = cashing self.items = self.get_news() @@ -69,11 +74,39 @@ def get_news(self): news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text items[num].update(news_description) + NewsReader._cash_news(items[num]) return items - def cash_news(self): - pass + @staticmethod + def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash', ): + date = NewsReader.get_date(news) + date = ''.join(str(date).split('-')) + + if not os.path.exists(dir): + os.mkdir(dir) + + path = os.path.join(dir, date + '.csv') + with open(path, 'w+') as file: + csv_writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter=',', + quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL) + + if os.path.getsize(path) == 0: + head = ','.join(news.keys()) + + file.write(head + '\n') + + csv_writer.writerow(news.values()) + + @staticmethod + def get_date(news): + news_date = news['pubDate'] + + # news_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') + news_date = parse(news_date) + news_date = news_date.date() + + return news_date @staticmethod def parse_description(description): @@ -144,36 +177,41 @@ def to_json(self): return json_result -def main(): - parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') - - parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') - - parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') - parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') - parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') - parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') - - # TODO: add flags to output logs - parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') - parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') - - args = parser.parse_args() - print(args) - - if args.version: - print(PROJECT_VERSION) - print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) - - if args.json: - news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) - - print(news.to_json()) - else: - news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) - - news.fancy_output() - - -if __name__ == '__main__': - main() +feed = NewsReader(' https://news.yahoo.com/rss/', limit=3, cashing=True) +print(feed.to_json()) + +# date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') + +# def main(): +# parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') +# +# parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') +# +# parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') +# parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') +# parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') +# parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') +# +# # TODO: add flags to output logs +# parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') +# parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') +# +# args = parser.parse_args() +# print(args) +# +# if args.version: +# print(PROJECT_VERSION) +# print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) +# +# if args.json: +# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) +# +# print(news.to_json()) +# else: +# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) +# +# news.fancy_output() +# +# +# if __name__ == '__main__': +# main() diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 734c7a0..824ca24 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ] }, - install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0'], + install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0', 'dateutil'], python_requires='>=3.6' ) From 9f8be1d8f62d765e5f6f21ce4d85e17b0f693b82 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadbeg Date: Wed, 30 Oct 2019 00:20:23 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 06/11] News cashing and reading by date were added --- news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv | 3 + news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv | 3 + news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv | 6 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv | 9 ++- news_feed/rss_reader.py | 121 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- 19 files changed, 158 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv create mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee37b6f --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Striking photographs retell the horror of D-Day,"At the height of World War II, the US military commissioned Kodak to produce a new type of color film that could capture infrared waves invisible to the human eye. The resulting photographs, taken during aerial reconnaissance missions, allowed allied forces to distinguish between foliage and the enemy camouflage it concealed.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DyDh8y6sOgQ/index.html,"Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:22:22 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DyDh8y6sOgQ, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e31fba2 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Families get a hug at US-Mexico border,"Since 2016, the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) have been bringing together families separated by the US-Mexico border, in an event called Hugs Not Walls. Twice a year, hundreds of families have the chance to see long-lost relatives for an unimaginably short, but precious, period of time: three minutes.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Jf5Aw6-QRd4/index.html,"Tue, 06 Nov 2018 10:53:08 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Jf5Aw6-QRd4, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0ff46f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Why Anna Wintour always wears sunglasses,"Anna Wintour's omnipresent status, crafted over a three-decade-long career at the helm of Vogue, is unrivaled in the fashion industry. Her reputation has transcended that of the magazine she edits, her image -- immaculately sliced bob, sunglasses -- now instantly recognizable in silhouette or line sketch.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/y7ovKhrj4b0/index.html,"Tue, 09 Apr 2019 14:51:57 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/y7ovKhrj4b0, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..69455b4 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +"Four teens rush into a burning home, saving the life of a 90-year-old neighbor","Four Oklahoma teens had planned to spend the evening hanging out together. They had no idea that by the time the night would end, they would be running into a burning house to save the life of a 90-year-old neighbor.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Q9_VgpEHKw0/index.html,"Fri, 07 Jun 2019 11:46:00 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Q9_VgpEHKw0, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..277005d --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +title,link,pubDate,description,imageLink,imageDescription +Miami's Little Haiti wasn't a target for developers. Until the seas started to rise,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/pbQjkbD_bFk/index.html,"Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:14:00 GMT",,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/pbQjkbD_bFk, +How rich people could help save the planet from the climate crisis,Rich people don't just have bigger bank balances and more lavish lifestyles than the rest of us -- they also have bigger carbon footprints.,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Pa_SMoc1110/index.html,"Fri, 12 Jul 2019 09:20:40 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Pa_SMoc1110, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ffa0443 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Italy's forbidden 'orgy island' ,"With emerald-green waters, blue skies and and a rugged empty landscape, Zannone has everything you'd expect from a near-deserted Italian island destination. It also has a reputation for something rather more unexpected:",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/xKkQ5o65EqU/index.html,"Tue, 30 Jul 2019 10:44:19 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/xKkQ5o65EqU, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..08ee28b --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Neighbors complete three weeks' worth of harvesting in a day for farmer diagnosed with cancer,"When stage 4 cancer stood in the way of farmer Larry Yockey reaping his wheat harvest for the first time in 50 years, dozens of his fellow farmers stepped up to save his crop.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/o2LXCtaXaZs/index.html,"Wed, 31 Jul 2019 17:50:39 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/o2LXCtaXaZs, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..70530b3 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Remember Madonna's cone bra?,"Remember when Madonna caused a sharp intake of breath by dancing on stage in her underwear? Ok, that's happened quite a few times so we'll narrow it down: cone bra.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/4sZmnulDy7s/index.html,"Fri, 16 Aug 2019 10:59:33 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/4sZmnulDy7s, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..d8d9cc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Radical ways to 'refreeze' the Arctic,"If planting more trees can replenish forests and remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, then could we also repopulate the Arctic with ice?",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/oiLKeZ-x9zU/index.html,"Mon, 02 Sep 2019 01:11:36 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/oiLKeZ-x9zU, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..75e8b82 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters ,"If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KlnsnygiAw8/index.html,"Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:44:32 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KlnsnygiAw8, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cfb0b8 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +Good Samaritans scramble under a subway to save a 5-year-old girl,A 45-year-old man holding his 5-year-old daughter was killed when witnesses say he jumped in front of a subway train in New York City on Monday.,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZqBz56XoI_M/index.html,"Tue, 24 Sep 2019 18:19:40 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ZqBz56XoI_M, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e2c4cc5 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +The people making art deals for the super rich,"""I'm always flying by the seat of my pants,"" says Lisa Schiff with engaging and, I suspect, characteristic honesty. ""I never know what we're going to make each month -- five dollars or a million!""",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/AoBMQEjkVIk/index.html,"Mon, 07 Oct 2019 11:22:33 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/AoBMQEjkVIk, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2f7b2b --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +title,link,pubDate,description,imageLink,imageDescription +Wildlife Photographer of the Year captured this frightened marmot,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/xhX7WMVeI2Q/index.html,"Tue, 15 Oct 2019 22:35:39 GMT",,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/xhX7WMVeI2Q, +50 of the world's best breads,"What is bread? You likely don't have to think for long, and whether you're hungry for a slice of sourdough or craving some tortillas, what you imagine says a lot about where you're from.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/GDW1Xm3mYn8/index.html,"Tue, 15 Oct 2019 23:21:06 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/GDW1Xm3mYn8, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6681509 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +This Caribbean island is bouncing back,"Longing for the Caribbean but want to go where the hotel crowds aren't? Aim for wild, rambling St. John.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Z7-hVQ4aJQw/index.html,"Mon, 21 Oct 2019 17:15:35 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Z7-hVQ4aJQw, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9d87ce5 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +This Norwegian bridge is also an art museum,"A striking bridge meets an intriguing modern art museum meets the splendor of the Norwegian natural landscape in the Twist -- the latest project from BIG-Bjarke Ingels Group, located about an hour's drive from Oslo.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Ss8MyxbfEPs/index.html,"Tue, 22 Oct 2019 14:51:54 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Ss8MyxbfEPs, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..14e3f6a --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +The Model Y could be a game changer for Tesla ,Tesla's stock enjoyed its biggest spike in six years this week after the automaker reported an unexpected third quarter profit. But that might not have been the biggest achievement for the company.,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/eTXTqPOUTPM/index.html,"Sat, 26 Oct 2019 17:16:07 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/eTXTqPOUTPM, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv index 921c77c..bb85b4e 100644 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv @@ -1,2 +1,4 @@ -title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription -Washington Post changes al-Baghdadi headline that called terror leader an 'austere religious scholar',"Critics, including President Trump�s children, blasted the paper for an obituary headline that did not portray the ISIS leader's brutality.",https://news.yahoo.com/washington-post-al-baghdadi-obit-headline-austere-religious-scholar-143726879.html,"Mon, 28 Oct 2019 10:37:26 -0400",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7rwCo096GFtbwM3xksJyJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e89af620-f98f-11e9-a7fb-7c7ac5390849,Washington Post changes al-Baghdadi headline that called terror leader an 'austere religious scholar' +title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription +The world's biggest banks have major problems. Just look at HSBC ,Happy Monday. A version of this story first appeared in CNN Business' Before the Bell newsletter. Not a subscriber? You can sign up right here.,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/OfRYNK8ELnY/index.html,"Mon, 28 Oct 2019 11:37:51 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/OfRYNK8ELnY, +Impossible Whoppers are a huge hit at Burger King,"Popeyes' spicy chicken sandwich is the only thing in the fast food business that's hotter than Burger King's Impossible Whopper. That's great news for Restaurant Brands, which owns both chains.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yNjcrbXsi1s/index.html,"Mon, 28 Oct 2019 17:27:44 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yNjcrbXsi1s, +Is this the most surreal exhibition ever?,"When Susanna Brown joined London's prestigious V&A museum over a decade ago as a curator in photographs, one of the first things she acquired was a group of images by Tim Walker.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ns6RnnZgyiA/index.html,"Mon, 28 Oct 2019 15:22:42 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ns6RnnZgyiA, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv index ac302e7..46ec032 100644 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv @@ -1,2 +1,7 @@ -title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription -"Australian sentenced to 36 years for murder, rape of Israeli","An Australian judge sentenced a man to 36 years in prison on Tuesday for the murder and rape of an Israeli student whom he bludgeoned into unconsciousness moments after she stepped off a tram in Melbourne before setting her corpse on fire. Victoria state Supreme Court Justice Elizabeth Hollingworth ordered Codey Herrmann, 21, to serve at least 30 years behind bars for his crimes against 21-year-old Aiia Maasarwe last January. The judge said she would have sentenced Herrmann to 40 years in prison with 35 years to be served before he became eligible for parole if he had not pleaded guilty in the face of an overwhelming prosecution case.",https://news.yahoo.com/australian-sentenced-36-years-murder-070115167.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 07:19:51 -0400",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0CYJ1TXh_l4vlv6ue7nf4w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dd0e716151b3d52cbd8a634fb73ee4e8,"Australian sentenced to 36 years for murder, rape of Israeli" +title,link,pubDate,description,imageLink,imageDescription +Lebanon's PM quits after nationwide protests,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wo6r3XV0GnY/index.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 18:34:46 GMT",,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wo6r3XV0GnY, +Tick-borne brain disease found in UK,"A potentially fatal infection spread by ticks has been detected for the first time in the UK, according to health authorities.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/UrzOiLkK0WA/index.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 09:53:44 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/UrzOiLkK0WA, +Age just a number to rugby playing pensioners,"The Rugby World Cup has seen rugby fever sweep across Japan as a whole new generation of Japanese rugby fans have been inspired by the incredible exploits of the country's national team, the Brave Blossoms.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/OKEaouowThQ/rugby-world-cup-japanese-pensioners-brave-blossoms-spt-intl.cnn,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:54:32 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/OKEaouowThQ, +Bulgaria gets one-time stadium ban and fine,"Bulgaria's national soccer team has been ordered by UEFA to play its next home game behind closed doors as punishment for the ""racist behavior"" of its fans during a Euro 2020 against England.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/39Gaxl2worM/index.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 16:05:29 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/39Gaxl2worM, +Ex-soldier climbs 14 highest peaks,"A former soldier from Nepal has climbed the world's 14 highest peaks in just over six months, smashing the previous record by over 7 years.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/J3nHBHZo0K8/index.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:00:23 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/J3nHBHZo0K8, +Huawei and ZTE could lose what little business they have in the US,The US Federal Communications Commission wants to place more restrictions on Huawei and ZTE by barring companies that receive government money from purchasing equipment or services from the Chinese tech firms.,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DhpgwjNf_sM/index.html,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 06:09:21 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DhpgwjNf_sM, diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index 2dc3905..8867a02 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -38,6 +38,13 @@ def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False, cashing=False): self.items = self.get_news() def get_news(self): + """ + Read rss from self.url and creates from it + dictionary. If self.cashing is True -> cashed news + + :return: dictionary of news + """ + request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors if self.verbose: @@ -45,6 +52,7 @@ def get_news(self): result = request.text tree = ET.fromstring(result) + print(result) items = dict() items.setdefault('title', ' ') @@ -62,6 +70,7 @@ def get_news(self): items.setdefault(num, {}) news_description = dict() + # TODO: set useful_tags as default tags! for description in item: if description.tag in useful_tags: @@ -74,12 +83,23 @@ def get_news(self): news_description['imageDescription'] = image_text items[num].update(news_description) - NewsReader._cash_news(items[num]) + + if self.cashing: + NewsReader._cash_news(items[num]) return items @staticmethod - def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash', ): + def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash'): + """ + Cashes news into csv format by publication date + into given directory + + :param news: dictionary of given news + :param dir: directory into which we save news + :return: None + """ + date = NewsReader.get_date(news) date = ''.join(str(date).split('-')) @@ -87,19 +107,60 @@ def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash', ): os.mkdir(dir) path = os.path.join(dir, date + '.csv') - with open(path, 'w+') as file: + with open(path, 'a', newline='', encoding='UTF-8') as file: csv_writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter=',', quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL) if os.path.getsize(path) == 0: - head = ','.join(news.keys()) - - file.write(head + '\n') + csv_writer.writerow(news.keys()) + print(news.values()) csv_writer.writerow(news.values()) + @staticmethod + def read_by_date(date, dir='news_cash'): + """ + Reads news from csv by given date + from given directory + + :param date: news date + :param dir: directory from which we get news + :return: dictionary of news + """ + + dates = os.listdir(dir) + + if date not in dates: + pass # TODO: raise some exception + + path = os.path.join(dir, date + '.csv') + with open(path, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as file: + csv_reader = csv.reader(file, delimiter=',', + quotechar='"') + + header = list() + items = dict() + for index, row in enumerate(csv_reader): + if index == 0: + header = row + continue + + items.setdefault(index, list()) + + items[index] = dict(zip(header, row)) + + return items + @staticmethod def get_date(news): + """ + Returns date of news publication + + :param news: dictionary of given news + :return: date of news publication + """ + + print(news) news_date = news['pubDate'] # news_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') @@ -110,6 +171,13 @@ def get_date(news): @staticmethod def parse_description(description): + """ + Return news description + + :param description: raw news description + :return: news description + """ + text = NewsReader.get_description(description) image = NewsReader.get_image(description) @@ -121,6 +189,14 @@ def parse_description(description): @staticmethod def get_image(description): + """ + Parse description file trying to find image + source and description of this image + + :param description: raw news description + :return: image source, image description + """ + xhtml = html.fromstring(description) image_src = xhtml.xpath('//img/@src') image_description = xhtml.xpath('//img/@alt') @@ -139,12 +215,27 @@ def get_image(description): @staticmethod def get_description(description): + """ + Remove all tags from raw description and + return just simple news description + + :param description: news description + :return: processed description + """ + node = html.fromstring(description) return node.text_content() @staticmethod def news_text(news): + """ + Process news in dictionary format into + readable text + + :param news: news dictionary + :return: readable news description + """ result = "\n\tTitle: {}\n\tDate: {}\n\tLink: {}\n\n\tImage link: {}\n\t" \ "Image description: {}\n\tDescription: {}".format(news['title'], @@ -157,6 +248,13 @@ def news_text(news): return result def fancy_output(self): + """ + Output readable information about news + from items dictionary + + :return: None + """ + if self.verbose: print('News feed is ready') @@ -169,6 +267,13 @@ def fancy_output(self): print('_' * 100) def to_json(self): + """ + Convert self.items (all news description) + into json format + + :return: json format news + """ + if self.verbose: print('Json was created') @@ -177,8 +282,8 @@ def to_json(self): return json_result -feed = NewsReader(' https://news.yahoo.com/rss/', limit=3, cashing=True) -print(feed.to_json()) +feed = NewsReader(' http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=None, cashing=True) +print(feed.read_by_date('20191028')) # date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') From ef9e2444e709fa830e36ceb890f2b6418b70d2d7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vadbeg Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 12:45:52 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 07/11] News converter (format_converter.py) was added. Now there is just converter into pdf format using fpdf library --- .idea/.gitignore | 3 + .../inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml | 6 + .idea/misc.xml | 4 + .idea/modules.xml | 8 + .idea/news_feed_reader.iml | 11 + .idea/vcs.xml | 6 + .../__pycache__/rss_reader.cpython-37.pyc | Bin 0 -> 6639 bytes news_feed/format_converter.py | 176 +++ news_feed/news.pdf | Bin 0 -> 203322 bytes news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20190607.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv | 42 +- news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20190731.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20190902.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20190924.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191007.csv | 2 - news_feed/news_cash/20191015.csv | 61 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191021.csv | 41 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191022.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191026.csv | 22 +- news_feed/news_cash/20191028.csv | 4 - news_feed/news_cash/20191029.csv | 484 ++++++- news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv | 1135 +++++++++++++++++ news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv | 745 +++++++++++ news_feed/rss_reader.py | 21 +- 30 files changed, 2841 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .idea/.gitignore create mode 100644 .idea/inspectionProfiles/profiles_settings.xml create mode 100644 .idea/misc.xml create mode 100644 .idea/modules.xml create mode 100644 .idea/news_feed_reader.iml create mode 100644 .idea/vcs.xml create mode 100644 news_feed/__pycache__/rss_reader.cpython-37.pyc create mode 100644 news_feed/format_converter.py create mode 100644 news_feed/news.pdf delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20180726.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190409.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190730.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190816.csv delete mode 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None + """ + + filename = link.split('/')[-1] + '.jpg' + + try: + response = requests.get(link) + img = Image.open(BytesIO(response.content)) + img = img.convert('RGB') + + img.save(filename) + img.close() + + self.set_x(self.w / 2 - 15) + self.image(filename, type='jpg') + except requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: + + self.cell(0, 10, 'No image', 0, 0, 'C') + finally: + self.set_x(0) + silent_remove(filename) + + @staticmethod + def change_encoding(txt): + """ + Changes encoding to fpdf compatible + + :param txt: Text to encode + :return: new-encoded text + """ + + return txt.encode('latin-1', + 'replace').decode('latin-1') + + def add_news_page(self, item): + """ + Writes info about one news + + :param item: one news dictionary + :return: None + """ + + item = {key: self.change_encoding(value) + for key, value in item.items()} + + title = item['title'] + pub_date = item['pubDate'] + link = item['link'] + description = item['description'] + image_link = item['imageLink'] + 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The resulting photographs, taken during aerial reconnaissance missions, allowed allied forces to distinguish between foliage and the enemy camouflage it concealed.",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DyDh8y6sOgQ/index.html,"Thu, 26 Jul 2018 13:22:22 GMT",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DyDh8y6sOgQ, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv deleted file mode 100644 index e31fba2..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20181106.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,2 +0,0 @@ -title,description,link,pubDate,imageLink,imageDescription -Families get a hug at US-Mexico border,"Since 2016, the Border Network for Human Rights (BNHR) have been bringing together families separated by the US-Mexico border, in an event called Hugs Not Walls. 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In another, from 1930, a tall figure stands in a field tightly wrapped in what looks like a white sheet and black tape, while a 1938 image shows three people driving to a party in hair-raising skull masks.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/F4cACX1KUdM, +Tate Modern to display Andy Warhol's portraits of trans women ,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:03:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/k4i5xxkpcgs/index.html,"A collection of Andy Warhol's New York portraits of transgender women and drag queens will go on display at London's Tate Modern, as part of a new exhibition dedicated to the artist's life and identity.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/k4i5xxkpcgs, +This woman faked a pregnancy to try to avoid excess baggage fees,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:01:53 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/SXT8at_euP0/index.html,"Many travelers get creative with packing, whether it's sitting on your suitcase to try and get it to shut, or arriving at the airport wearing three coats.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/SXT8at_euP0, +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:47:47 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-attack-michael-flynn-extraordinary-194747328.html,"(Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors criticized Michael Flynn’s “extraordinary reversal” in proclaiming his innocence despite his admission of guilt before two federal judges.In a court filing on Tuesday, prosecutors denied they had engaged in misconduct, as Flynn’s lawyers assert, and attacked their efforts to paint Flynn as innocent of lying to investigators despite his guilty plea.“The defendant now claims that he is innocent of the criminal charges in this case,” U.S. prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballantine wrote. They said he claimed he was honest during a January 2017 interview “despite having admitted his guilt, under oath.”A lawyer for Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, wants a judge to throw out the case because of prosecutorial misconduct, saying that prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence before Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to federal agents.The lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued in an Oct. 24 filing that FBI agents created a false summary of their interview with Flynn about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Powell claims that Flynn didn’t remember making four or five calls to Kislyak from the Dominican Republic after Trump’s election, yet the summary falsely said Flynn remembered the calls.Powell also says that Van Grack made incomplete and misleading disclosures of the government’s evidence, and that the FBI “knew its entire investigation of Flynn was a pretext.” She asked a judge to order prosecutors to turn over evidence sought by the defense, hold prosecutors in contempt and “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct.”FBI agents claimed that Flynn made false statements during an interview on Jan. 24, 2017, about multiple topics, yet Powell wrote that her client was “honest with the agents to the best of his recollection at the time, and the agents knew it.”Flynn was Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month before resigning over the criminal investigation against him. Trump later urged the FBI director, James Comey, to shut down the investigation. Comey declined and was fired, prompting the Justice Department to appoint Robert Mueller to investigate the firing as part of a broad inquiry into Russian election interference.Prosecutors said Flynn, a former Army general and head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, improperly raised several new arguments and claims recently for the first time. They asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington how they should respond in light of his decision on Monday to cancel a hearing set for Nov. 7. He’ll now decide the matter based on the filings submitted to him.Powell denied in an email that she intends to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea. Instead, she cited the federal criminal case against the late Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, which Sullivan threw out in 2009 after prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence.In the email, Powell said: “I have long maintained General Flynn’s innocence, and the government knows that, but there is no requirement that I withdraw the plea. It is an issue of procedure. The entire prosecution should be dismissed for egregious government misconduct. For example, Ted Stevens did not have to seek or have a motion for new trial granted to have his entire prosecution dismissed.”Sullivan has set a target sentencing date of Dec. 18 for Flynn.The case is U.S. v. Flynn, 17-cr-232, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).READ MORE:Michael Flynn Lawyer Assails U.S. Case Against Ex-Trump AideFlynn Lawyers, Prosecutors Spar Over Readiness for SentenceFlynn’s Risk of Prison Resurfaces as Judge Flags ‘Serious’ CrimeTo contact the reporters on this story: David Voreacos in New York at dvoreacos@bloomberg.net;Andrew Harris in federal court in Washington at aharris16@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, David S. Joachim, Peter JeffreyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:10:45 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sides-indicted-oligarch-over-231045762.html,"Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to have a long-standing beef with Joe Biden.Scott Adams, a Washington, D.C., talk radio host, sent out a tweet Monday night about U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who delivered some of the impeachment inquiry’s most damaging testimony yet. The tweet alleged that Taylor lied about Ukrainian natural gas baron Dmytro Firtash in a cable to State Department headquarters in 2008. At issue was a conversation Taylor had with Firtash in Kyiv that December. Taylor wrote in a diplomatic cable (later published by WikiLeaks) that Firtash told him he had “acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure [Semion] Seymon Mogilevich,” one of the most notorious accused mobsters on the planet. According to Taylor, Firtash said “he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place,” but had not committed any crimes in the course of his business.When WikiLeaks published the cable in 2010, Firtash issued a statement on his website disputing its contents. Firtash, the statement claimed,“has never stated, to anyone, at any time, that he needed or received permission from Mr. Mogilevich to establish any of his businesses.”Earlier this year, Firtash reiterated that defense. Without mentioning any American official by name, he said someone must have fabricated the detail about Mogilevich. Taylor, meanwhile, has defended the State Department’s notes. The Justice Department appears to side with Taylor; its lawyers have argued in court that Firtash has ties to Russian organized crime. The criminal charges he faces, however, don’t involve any such alleged relationships. Instead, the Justice Department charged him in 2014 with helming a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials. Trump’s retweet, however, offers a presidential thumbs-up to Firtash’s side of the story, and raises a new line of attack on Taylor’s credibility for the president’s allies.  Asked about his sourcing for the allegations against Taylor, Adams told The Daily Beast, “My sources are solid Foggy Bottom people.” He also noted the explanation for the cable that Firtash provided to The Daily Beast earlier this year.This specific defense of Firtash took hold in The Hill over the summer, when columnist John Solomon, whose articles informed Rudy Giuliani’s Biden-Ukraine investigation, published a piece in July claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy said Firtash’s criminal charges in the U.S. might “go away” if he shared damaging information about Trump with Mueller’s team. Solomon cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge” and contemporaneous memos. Firtash and Solomon share the same lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The husband-wife team are veterans of the conservative movement’s most contentious legal battles, with longstanding ties in the Justice Department and Trump administration. Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for YearsRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/img4cdxZ1ieXCNFd4Mc9LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/587ec0455ae1dd540b5137a1aa5a82f6,Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:47:47 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-attack-michael-flynn-extraordinary-194747328.html,"(Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors criticized Michael Flynn’s “extraordinary reversal” in proclaiming his innocence despite his admission of guilt before two federal judges.In a court filing on Tuesday, prosecutors denied they had engaged in misconduct, as Flynn’s lawyers assert, and attacked their efforts to paint Flynn as innocent of lying to investigators despite his guilty plea.“The defendant now claims that he is innocent of the criminal charges in this case,” U.S. prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballantine wrote. They said he claimed he was honest during a January 2017 interview “despite having admitted his guilt, under oath.”A lawyer for Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, wants a judge to throw out the case because of prosecutorial misconduct, saying that prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence before Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to federal agents.The lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued in an Oct. 24 filing that FBI agents created a false summary of their interview with Flynn about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Powell claims that Flynn didn’t remember making four or five calls to Kislyak from the Dominican Republic after Trump’s election, yet the summary falsely said Flynn remembered the calls.Powell also says that Van Grack made incomplete and misleading disclosures of the government’s evidence, and that the FBI “knew its entire investigation of Flynn was a pretext.” She asked a judge to order prosecutors to turn over evidence sought by the defense, hold prosecutors in contempt and “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct.”FBI agents claimed that Flynn made false statements during an interview on Jan. 24, 2017, about multiple topics, yet Powell wrote that her client was “honest with the agents to the best of his recollection at the time, and the agents knew it.”Flynn was Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month before resigning over the criminal investigation against him. Trump later urged the FBI director, James Comey, to shut down the investigation. Comey declined and was fired, prompting the Justice Department to appoint Robert Mueller to investigate the firing as part of a broad inquiry into Russian election interference.Prosecutors said Flynn, a former Army general and head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, improperly raised several new arguments and claims recently for the first time. They asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington how they should respond in light of his decision on Monday to cancel a hearing set for Nov. 7. He’ll now decide the matter based on the filings submitted to him.Powell denied in an email that she intends to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea. Instead, she cited the federal criminal case against the late Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, which Sullivan threw out in 2009 after prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence.In the email, Powell said: “I have long maintained General Flynn’s innocence, and the government knows that, but there is no requirement that I withdraw the plea. It is an issue of procedure. The entire prosecution should be dismissed for egregious government misconduct. For example, Ted Stevens did not have to seek or have a motion for new trial granted to have his entire prosecution dismissed.”Sullivan has set a target sentencing date of Dec. 18 for Flynn.The case is U.S. v. Flynn, 17-cr-232, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).READ MORE:Michael Flynn Lawyer Assails U.S. Case Against Ex-Trump AideFlynn Lawyers, Prosecutors Spar Over Readiness for SentenceFlynn’s Risk of Prison Resurfaces as Judge Flags ‘Serious’ CrimeTo contact the reporters on this story: David Voreacos in New York at dvoreacos@bloomberg.net;Andrew Harris in federal court in Washington at aharris16@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, David S. Joachim, Peter JeffreyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:10:45 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sides-indicted-oligarch-over-231045762.html,"Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to have a long-standing beef with Joe Biden.Scott Adams, a Washington, D.C., talk radio host, sent out a tweet Monday night about U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who delivered some of the impeachment inquiry’s most damaging testimony yet. The tweet alleged that Taylor lied about Ukrainian natural gas baron Dmytro Firtash in a cable to State Department headquarters in 2008. At issue was a conversation Taylor had with Firtash in Kyiv that December. Taylor wrote in a diplomatic cable (later published by WikiLeaks) that Firtash told him he had “acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure [Semion] Seymon Mogilevich,” one of the most notorious accused mobsters on the planet. According to Taylor, Firtash said “he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place,” but had not committed any crimes in the course of his business.When WikiLeaks published the cable in 2010, Firtash issued a statement on his website disputing its contents. Firtash, the statement claimed,“has never stated, to anyone, at any time, that he needed or received permission from Mr. Mogilevich to establish any of his businesses.”Earlier this year, Firtash reiterated that defense. Without mentioning any American official by name, he said someone must have fabricated the detail about Mogilevich. Taylor, meanwhile, has defended the State Department’s notes. The Justice Department appears to side with Taylor; its lawyers have argued in court that Firtash has ties to Russian organized crime. The criminal charges he faces, however, don’t involve any such alleged relationships. Instead, the Justice Department charged him in 2014 with helming a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials. Trump’s retweet, however, offers a presidential thumbs-up to Firtash’s side of the story, and raises a new line of attack on Taylor’s credibility for the president’s allies.  Asked about his sourcing for the allegations against Taylor, Adams told The Daily Beast, “My sources are solid Foggy Bottom people.” He also noted the explanation for the cable that Firtash provided to The Daily Beast earlier this year.This specific defense of Firtash took hold in The Hill over the summer, when columnist John Solomon, whose articles informed Rudy Giuliani’s Biden-Ukraine investigation, published a piece in July claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy said Firtash’s criminal charges in the U.S. might “go away” if he shared damaging information about Trump with Mueller’s team. Solomon cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge” and contemporaneous memos. Firtash and Solomon share the same lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The husband-wife team are veterans of the conservative movement’s most contentious legal battles, with longstanding ties in the Justice Department and Trump administration. Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for YearsRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/img4cdxZ1ieXCNFd4Mc9LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/587ec0455ae1dd540b5137a1aa5a82f6,Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:47:47 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/prosecutors-attack-michael-flynn-extraordinary-194747328.html,"(Bloomberg) -- U.S. prosecutors criticized Michael Flynn’s “extraordinary reversal” in proclaiming his innocence despite his admission of guilt before two federal judges.In a court filing on Tuesday, prosecutors denied they had engaged in misconduct, as Flynn’s lawyers assert, and attacked their efforts to paint Flynn as innocent of lying to investigators despite his guilty plea.“The defendant now claims that he is innocent of the criminal charges in this case,” U.S. prosecutors Brandon Van Grack and Jocelyn Ballantine wrote. They said he claimed he was honest during a January 2017 interview “despite having admitted his guilt, under oath.”A lawyer for Flynn, President Donald Trump’s first national security adviser, wants a judge to throw out the case because of prosecutorial misconduct, saying that prosecutors failed to disclose exculpatory evidence before Flynn pleaded guilty in December 2017 to lying to federal agents.The lawyer, Sidney Powell, argued in an Oct. 24 filing that FBI agents created a false summary of their interview with Flynn about his conversations with the Russian ambassador to the U.S. at the time, Sergey Kislyak. Powell claims that Flynn didn’t remember making four or five calls to Kislyak from the Dominican Republic after Trump’s election, yet the summary falsely said Flynn remembered the calls.Powell also says that Van Grack made incomplete and misleading disclosures of the government’s evidence, and that the FBI “knew its entire investigation of Flynn was a pretext.” She asked a judge to order prosecutors to turn over evidence sought by the defense, hold prosecutors in contempt and “dismiss the entire prosecution for outrageous government misconduct.”FBI agents claimed that Flynn made false statements during an interview on Jan. 24, 2017, about multiple topics, yet Powell wrote that her client was “honest with the agents to the best of his recollection at the time, and the agents knew it.”Flynn was Trump’s national security adviser for less than a month before resigning over the criminal investigation against him. Trump later urged the FBI director, James Comey, to shut down the investigation. Comey declined and was fired, prompting the Justice Department to appoint Robert Mueller to investigate the firing as part of a broad inquiry into Russian election interference.Prosecutors said Flynn, a former Army general and head of the Pentagon’s Defense Intelligence Agency, improperly raised several new arguments and claims recently for the first time. They asked U.S. District Judge Emmet Sullivan in Washington how they should respond in light of his decision on Monday to cancel a hearing set for Nov. 7. He’ll now decide the matter based on the filings submitted to him.Powell denied in an email that she intends to withdraw Flynn’s guilty plea. Instead, she cited the federal criminal case against the late Senator Ted Stevens of Alaska, which Sullivan threw out in 2009 after prosecutors withheld exculpatory evidence.In the email, Powell said: “I have long maintained General Flynn’s innocence, and the government knows that, but there is no requirement that I withdraw the plea. It is an issue of procedure. The entire prosecution should be dismissed for egregious government misconduct. For example, Ted Stevens did not have to seek or have a motion for new trial granted to have his entire prosecution dismissed.”Sullivan has set a target sentencing date of Dec. 18 for Flynn.The case is U.S. v. Flynn, 17-cr-232, U.S. District Court, District of Columbia (Washington).READ MORE:Michael Flynn Lawyer Assails U.S. Case Against Ex-Trump AideFlynn Lawyers, Prosecutors Spar Over Readiness for SentenceFlynn’s Risk of Prison Resurfaces as Judge Flags ‘Serious’ CrimeTo contact the reporters on this story: David Voreacos in New York at dvoreacos@bloomberg.net;Andrew Harris in federal court in Washington at aharris16@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Jeffrey D Grocott at jgrocott2@bloomberg.net, David S. Joachim, Peter JeffreyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,Prosecutors Attack Michael Flynn’s ‘Extraordinary Reversal’ on His Guilt +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:10:45 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sides-indicted-oligarch-over-231045762.html,"Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to have a long-standing beef with Joe Biden.Scott Adams, a Washington, D.C., talk radio host, sent out a tweet Monday night about U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who delivered some of the impeachment inquiry’s most damaging testimony yet. The tweet alleged that Taylor lied about Ukrainian natural gas baron Dmytro Firtash in a cable to State Department headquarters in 2008. At issue was a conversation Taylor had with Firtash in Kyiv that December. Taylor wrote in a diplomatic cable (later published by WikiLeaks) that Firtash told him he had “acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure [Semion] Seymon Mogilevich,” one of the most notorious accused mobsters on the planet. According to Taylor, Firtash said “he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place,” but had not committed any crimes in the course of his business.When WikiLeaks published the cable in 2010, Firtash issued a statement on his website disputing its contents. Firtash, the statement claimed,“has never stated, to anyone, at any time, that he needed or received permission from Mr. Mogilevich to establish any of his businesses.”Earlier this year, Firtash reiterated that defense. Without mentioning any American official by name, he said someone must have fabricated the detail about Mogilevich. Taylor, meanwhile, has defended the State Department’s notes. The Justice Department appears to side with Taylor; its lawyers have argued in court that Firtash has ties to Russian organized crime. The criminal charges he faces, however, don’t involve any such alleged relationships. Instead, the Justice Department charged him in 2014 with helming a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials. Trump’s retweet, however, offers a presidential thumbs-up to Firtash’s side of the story, and raises a new line of attack on Taylor’s credibility for the president’s allies.  Asked about his sourcing for the allegations against Taylor, Adams told The Daily Beast, “My sources are solid Foggy Bottom people.” He also noted the explanation for the cable that Firtash provided to The Daily Beast earlier this year.This specific defense of Firtash took hold in The Hill over the summer, when columnist John Solomon, whose articles informed Rudy Giuliani’s Biden-Ukraine investigation, published a piece in July claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy said Firtash’s criminal charges in the U.S. might “go away” if he shared damaging information about Trump with Mueller’s team. Solomon cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge” and contemporaneous memos. Firtash and Solomon share the same lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The husband-wife team are veterans of the conservative movement’s most contentious legal battles, with longstanding ties in the Justice Department and Trump administration. Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for YearsRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/img4cdxZ1ieXCNFd4Mc9LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/587ec0455ae1dd540b5137a1aa5a82f6,Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:30:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-melania-putting-candy-bar-183042719.html,The encounter took place during this year's White House Halloween celebration,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/71IXC9yvsI.5Cv8L2hKMJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/f07bc8a1f2af65860f0f821d68018c02,Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:30:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-melania-putting-candy-bar-183042719.html,The encounter took place during this year's White House Halloween celebration,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/71IXC9yvsI.5Cv8L2hKMJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/f07bc8a1f2af65860f0f821d68018c02,Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:30:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-melania-putting-candy-bar-183042719.html,The encounter took place during this year's White House Halloween celebration,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/71IXC9yvsI.5Cv8L2hKMJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/f07bc8a1f2af65860f0f821d68018c02,Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:30:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-melania-putting-candy-bar-183042719.html,The encounter took place during this year's White House Halloween celebration,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/71IXC9yvsI.5Cv8L2hKMJw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/f07bc8a1f2af65860f0f821d68018c02,Donald and Melania Trump Putting Candy Bar on Head of White House Trick-or-Treater Dressed As Minion Has Become a Flash Point +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment +Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment +Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment +Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +"Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:31:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-schiff-prep-gop-impeachment-193134453.html,"Congressional Democrats are struggling to protect the identity of the U.S. government official who filed a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. And those efforts have fueled friction behind closed doors. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) ruled in a closed-door deposition Tuesday morning that any questions that might lead to the revelation of the whistleblower’s identity were out of order, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. His move frustrated Republicans. One source relayed that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) ended up “yelling at each other” during a closed door deposition of Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council Director for European Affairs who testified that he raised internal concerns about Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry.Meadows declined to discuss the deposition, but acknowledged the tension. “There is a great frustration among some of my Democratic colleagues because I know the rules extremely well,” he told The Daily Beast.Schiff’s office declined to comment. House Democrats Plan an Impeachment BlitzTuesday’s tensions underscored a growing fear among Democrats that Republicans may use parliamentary maneuvers to cast doubt on the whistleblower’s complaint and disrupt future private and public impeachment hearings. Top congressional Democrats, including members of the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, have been meeting privately for weeks to discuss messaging around the impeachment inquiry. And in a meeting on Tuesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other attendees discussed how to handle potential Republican efforts to reveal the whistleblower’s identity, according to two sources familiar with the talks. A third source who was in the meeting said they were not aware of discussion about protecting the whistleblower’s identity. But the source did say that a good chunk of the discussion focused on how to handle Republican-led attempts to disrupt future public hearings, which impeachment investigators officially teed up on Tuesday. Some Democratic members have raised concerns that hearings could become chaotic political circuses with GOP lawmakers using the parliamentary rules to bog down the sessions. Republican members have used such tactics successfully during Judiciary Committee hearings led by Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)—most notably when Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski spent much of his time refusing to answer questions and berating his questioners. That hearing embarrassed many Democrats and was widely viewed as a mess, underscoring the need for new direction and leadership in oversight of the Trump White House. Going forward, the third source said, Democrats wanted to better prepare for such “stunts” by setting firm rules for hearings. “It is going to happen at every turn, so we have to be prepared to address it,” the source said. “So we may do it through the rule. And we need to come up with a message to deal with this.”The House Rules Committee is slated to vote on formal rules of the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, and the full House could vote on the new rules as soon as Thursday.Meadows said that any accusation that Republicans were trying to out the whistleblower were untrue because they did not know who to actually out. “We don’t know who the whistleblower is, so there’s no way that we can out someone that we don’t know who it is,” he said. “I do believe that we need to hear from the whistleblower, but in terms of any ability to out the whistleblower, you have to know the name of him or her first and I can assure you that there’s not a single Republican that knows the name of the whistleblower.”Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower’s Name, Sources SaySources have told The Daily Beast a different story. According to two knowledgeable people, a top staffer to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has been circulating the identity of a person believed to be the whistleblower among House Republicans.On Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) exited the deposition and railed against Republican lawmakers for seemingly spending “most of their hours” of questioning using a variety of tactics to try to get Vindman to reveal the whistleblower’s name. She said that Republicans had been “repeatedly halted” from asking about the whistleblower during the session. “It certainly appeared they were trying to make sure they could put a universe of individuals who had been communicated with on the table,” Wasserman Schultz told The Daily Beast during a break in the deposition. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VwR53joFHajc34X73g_9JA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/cea860978efe46cc1b3ace53c4fa9790,"Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower" +Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:10:45 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sides-indicted-oligarch-over-231045762.html,"Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to have a long-standing beef with Joe Biden.Scott Adams, a Washington, D.C., talk radio host, sent out a tweet Monday night about U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who delivered some of the impeachment inquiry’s most damaging testimony yet. The tweet alleged that Taylor lied about Ukrainian natural gas baron Dmytro Firtash in a cable to State Department headquarters in 2008. At issue was a conversation Taylor had with Firtash in Kyiv that December. Taylor wrote in a diplomatic cable (later published by WikiLeaks) that Firtash told him he had “acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure [Semion] Seymon Mogilevich,” one of the most notorious accused mobsters on the planet. According to Taylor, Firtash said “he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place,” but had not committed any crimes in the course of his business.When WikiLeaks published the cable in 2010, Firtash issued a statement on his website disputing its contents. Firtash, the statement claimed,“has never stated, to anyone, at any time, that he needed or received permission from Mr. Mogilevich to establish any of his businesses.”Earlier this year, Firtash reiterated that defense. Without mentioning any American official by name, he said someone must have fabricated the detail about Mogilevich. Taylor, meanwhile, has defended the State Department’s notes. The Justice Department appears to side with Taylor; its lawyers have argued in court that Firtash has ties to Russian organized crime. The criminal charges he faces, however, don’t involve any such alleged relationships. Instead, the Justice Department charged him in 2014 with helming a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials. Trump’s retweet, however, offers a presidential thumbs-up to Firtash’s side of the story, and raises a new line of attack on Taylor’s credibility for the president’s allies.  Asked about his sourcing for the allegations against Taylor, Adams told The Daily Beast, “My sources are solid Foggy Bottom people.” He also noted the explanation for the cable that Firtash provided to The Daily Beast earlier this year.This specific defense of Firtash took hold in The Hill over the summer, when columnist John Solomon, whose articles informed Rudy Giuliani’s Biden-Ukraine investigation, published a piece in July claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy said Firtash’s criminal charges in the U.S. might “go away” if he shared damaging information about Trump with Mueller’s team. Solomon cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge” and contemporaneous memos. Firtash and Solomon share the same lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The husband-wife team are veterans of the conservative movement’s most contentious legal battles, with longstanding ties in the Justice Department and Trump administration. Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for YearsRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/img4cdxZ1ieXCNFd4Mc9LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/587ec0455ae1dd540b5137a1aa5a82f6,Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" +US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken +Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden +Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict +"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" +2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious +The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women +He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse +8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve +London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial +"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3852b30 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv @@ -0,0 +1,1135 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +UK to hold early election in December,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:38:10 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/C3ryCPK8bkg/brexit-general-election-december-12-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-nd-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn,"The UK will hold an early election on December 12, assuming the House of Lords passes the bill backed by lawmakers in the House of Commons on October 29, 2019. 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CNN's Max Foster reports.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/C3ryCPK8bkg, +The looming UK election is one big gamble for investors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:47:38 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZbUky5IsPgI/index.html,"Brits are being asked to vote in an election that could end years of paralysis caused by Brexit. 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CNN's Max Foster reports.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/C3ryCPK8bkg, +The looming UK election is one big gamble for investors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:47:38 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZbUky5IsPgI/index.html,"Brits are being asked to vote in an election that could end years of paralysis caused by Brexit. 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CNN's Max Foster reports.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/C3ryCPK8bkg, +The looming UK election is one big gamble for investors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:47:38 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZbUky5IsPgI/index.html,"Brits are being asked to vote in an election that could end years of paralysis caused by Brexit. 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CNN's Max Foster reports.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/C3ryCPK8bkg, +The looming UK election is one big gamble for investors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:47:38 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZbUky5IsPgI/index.html,"Brits are being asked to vote in an election that could end years of paralysis caused by Brexit. For investors, there are new risks—whatever the result.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ZbUky5IsPgI, +Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations +Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:42:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-exec-alleges-company-161657802.html,"A Juul Labs executive who was fired earlier this year is alleging that the vaping company knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers. The allegation comes in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers representing Siddharth Breja, a one-time finance executive at the e-cigarette maker. The suit claims that Breja was terminated after opposing company practices, including shipping the contaminated flavored pods and not listing expiration dates on Juul products.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZJe0yLkkCrtXTL7CI9vB3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1b773f8bc9f5d70267924b0c415b6653,Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:52:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-impeachment-figure-makes-return-214101537.html,"Impeachment is back, and so is Bob Livingston. The former congressman from Louisiana who abruptly resigned on the same day the House impeached President Bill Clinton made an improbable return Wednesday as a figure in the sequel — the drive to impeach President Donald Trump. There, in the leaked opening statement of the day's witness was a Foreign Service official's recollection that a ""Robert Livingston"" had repeatedly phoned the National Security Council to urge the firing of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, over her links to Democrats.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DRoY3gppqRXhGwtoDudBTg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/eae2d2d5dbf080f230d5c034ac54bbc3,Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel +Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:42:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-exec-alleges-company-161657802.html,"A Juul Labs executive who was fired earlier this year is alleging that the vaping company knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers. The allegation comes in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers representing Siddharth Breja, a one-time finance executive at the e-cigarette maker. The suit claims that Breja was terminated after opposing company practices, including shipping the contaminated flavored pods and not listing expiration dates on Juul products.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZJe0yLkkCrtXTL7CI9vB3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1b773f8bc9f5d70267924b0c415b6653,Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:52:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-impeachment-figure-makes-return-214101537.html,"Impeachment is back, and so is Bob Livingston. The former congressman from Louisiana who abruptly resigned on the same day the House impeached President Bill Clinton made an improbable return Wednesday as a figure in the sequel — the drive to impeach President Donald Trump. There, in the leaked opening statement of the day's witness was a Foreign Service official's recollection that a ""Robert Livingston"" had repeatedly phoned the National Security Council to urge the firing of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, over her links to Democrats.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DRoY3gppqRXhGwtoDudBTg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/eae2d2d5dbf080f230d5c034ac54bbc3,Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:47:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/congress-considers-delaying-spending-talks-194715001.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Democrats and Republicans in Congress are deliberating whether to push the deadline to fund the government into early February to avoid having a budget fight amid an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that’s set to stretch at least into December.That would mean enacting another stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown when the current short-term funding runs out Nov. 21, assuming the two sides don’t be able to agree on a budget plan by then.Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby, a Republican, has floated the idea of a stopgap spending bill until February, though he said Wednesday he hasn’t discussed it with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.“I think that’s a pretty realistic assessment of where we are today,” said Shelby of Alabama. “Miracles do happen but I haven’t seen a lot of them around here.”House Democrats on the Appropriations Committee are also weighing a February stopgap, lawmakers and aides say.Trump’s insistence on funding a wall on the southern border is again hanging over funding decisions in Congress, as Democrats and Republicans negotiate 12 annual spending bills. An impasse over the border wall led to a 35-day partial government shutdown early this year. After it ended, Trump used emergency powers to raid military construction accounts to fund the wall.Wall MoneyWhen Shelby floated the idea of a stopgap bill until February, he said impeachment would “take the oxygen” out of the Capitol. But Democratic Representative David Price, a member of the Appropriations panel, said Trump’s continued demand for money to build a border wall is the problem.“Shelby can blame impeachment all he wants but it is their allocations that is standing in the way,” Price of North Carolina said. “If not for this wall issue we could get this done tomorrow.”House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are said to oppose a long stopgap in order to try to force a spending deal sooner. Hoyer wrote to McConnell on Tuesday to urge immediate talks on spending.Republicans want to replenish the $7 billion in military funds that Trump redirected toward construction of the border wall, and Democrats say they won’t refill those accounts without provisions to guard against future shifting of funds. Senate Republicans also are seeking $5 billion in new money for the wall.This already delicate negotiation is further complicated by the impeachment process that has enraged Trump and heightened partisan acrimony on Capitol Hill.Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said Tuesday he was worried that Trump could use the Nov. 21 deadline to provoke a shutdown to distract from impeachment.”I’m increasingly worried that President Trump will want to shut down the government again because of impeachment,” Schumer said. “He always likes to create diversions.”Shutdown FearsRepublicans and Democrats in Congress say they don’t want another government shutdown, although they also said that when government funding ran out at the end of 2018. The Senate and the House, both led by the GOP at the time, were on the brink of a deal in December when Trump persuaded House Republicans to hold out for wall funding.The House has already passed its 12 appropriations bills, and the Senate this week is on track to pass a package of four spending bills that would fund Interior and Environment; Commerce, Justice and Science; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development; and Agriculture. This Senate measure would need to be reconciled with the House versions to become law.The most important thing for spending committee leaders is to agree on the topline allocation of spending for all government agencies. Senate Democrats say they’ll block debate on the annual Defense spending bill, the top GOP priority, until they reach a deal on total allocations.“This week will bring a litmus test: are Washington Democrats so concerned by impeachment that they cannot even fund our men and women in uniform?” McConnell said Tuesday. “It’s hard to imagine a more basic legislative responsibility than funding the Department of Defense.”\--With assistance from Jack Fitzpatrick.To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Wasson in Washington at ewasson@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Laurie AsséoFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/M_gBixqUTKtNLood1HKdOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/40fd63c8d0df90d81de4e3a310a07c72,Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Election Gamble Could Backfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boris-johnsons-brexit-election-gamble-050000800.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Boris Johnson has succeeded, finally, in getting Parliament to give him the general election that he wants. The polls have him far ahead: YouGov had 36% of voters backing his Conservatives, with Labour in second place on 23%. But his move is still a risky one. Here are the ways it could go wrong.Polling ErrorRemember the 2015 U.K. election shock? And the 2016 Brexit referendum shock? And the 2017 U.K. election shock? A common feature of all of them was a failure of the polling companies to properly detect a shift in public opinion.At the very time that we want faster, better data from them, pollsters face unprecedented challenges. In particular, they struggle to reach younger, more mobile voters, those who might be expected to oppose Johnson’s Conservatives and Brexit.Votes vs SeatsEven if the pollsters get close with the total vote share, translating it into the thing that matters, seats in Parliament, is very hard. Votes can pile up unevenly. In 2017, the Tories won 42% of the vote, but 49% of the seats. Labour won 40% of both.Tory FatigueThe Conservatives have now been in power for nine years, and even Cabinet ministers acknowledge privately that the last three of those years haven’t been a great advertisement for Tory government. The party’s recent discovery of unity behind Johnson might not outweigh years of infighting and indecision.Hard TimesIt’s not just that the Tories have been in power for a long time, they’ve been in power for a long time while people haven’t got any richer. According to the Office for National Statistics, median weekly earnings are still 2.9% below their 2008 level. That’s not a great backdrop for an election.Brexit FactorJohnson’s slogan, “Get Brexit Done,” feels like an appealing message to a public weary of months of knife-edge votes and reverses. But it’s also an admission that this government has had a single project since 2016, has failed to deliver on it, and everyone is sick of waiting.Johnson hopes to turn that frustration into votes for Conservatives. But voters could conclude that Brexit was a Conservative project -- a Johnson project, in fact -- and that if they’re tired of it, they need someone different in charge.The failure to complete the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU also leaves the door open to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party to take votes away from the Tories. If Farage does well enough to stop Tories winning key seats, Corbyn could ultimately benefit.Money’s TightJohnson’s other message is that by getting Brexit dealt with, he will be able to focus on spending money on things people do like, such as schools and hospitals. This too is an admission of failure.After nine years of spending restrictions, Britain’s public services are squeezed: libraries are closing, knife crime is rising, numbers of rough sleepers are increasing. Labour will be very happy to fight an election on the question of who is better at spending money on things.Character FlawsThe Conservatives are pinning a lot of their hopes on Johnson’s undoubted fame. Unlike his predecessor Theresa May, he enjoys campaigning. But that fame brings a problem. Most people have made up their minds what they think of Johnson, and a lot of them don’t like him.According to YouGov, 47% of people have a negative opinion of him, against 33% who have a positive one. Labour is pushing hard on Johnson’s tendency to go back on promises.The Conservatives, too, plan to make much of their opponent’s character: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has even worse scores than Johnson: 58% negative, against 23% positive. But at the last election, Corbyn was able to shrug off criticism of his past statements.Mixed MessagesJohnson risks losing a whole load of Conservative seats in places that don’t like Brexit too: southern England, and Scotland. According to Joe Twyman of Deltapoll, that leaves the prime minister trying to pull off a difficult trick.“He needs to convince Remain-leaning Conservative voters to forget Brexit and vote Conservative,” Twyman said. “At the same time convince Leave-leaning Labour voters to hold their noses about him and vote for Brexit.”Right Votes, Wrong PlacesA different version of the same problem is that the Conservatives’ strongly pro-Brexit message helps them do very well in areas they already hold. According to Twyman, of the 50 most “Leave” areas, 24 are already Conservative. Extra votes there don’t help.Accidents HappenConservative politicians are fond of saying that they’ll never run a campaign as bad as the one May ran in 2017. In particular they point to her announcement of a plan to fund care for the elderly from the value of their houses.But things can go wrong. The 2017 campaign was interrupted by terrorist attacks. Johnson could find himself unexpectedly tested. He may be just about the only politician known to everyone by his first name, but he’s also the only one to have had to apologize to an entire city -- Liverpool, in 2004.His team have been keen to keep him away from difficult questions. In the intense scrutiny of an election campaign, that will be harder than ever.To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Hutton in London at rhutton1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Tim Ross at tross54@bloomberg.net, Flavia Krause-JacksonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G.m4foP92eZpAREH7SCSgw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/d711bd17f3966d5753a56a0bf2e986dd,How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Election Gamble Could Backfire +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem +Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags +The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:38:28 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/stocks-watch-u-k-heads-083828793.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is headed to the polls on Dec. 12, bringing banks, utilities and housebuilders into focus for U.K. equity investors. There’s also the small matter of Brexit, as strategists digest what the latest developments mean for sterling and U.K. assets.In the lead-up to the vote, “both Labour and the Conservatives are expected to come out with pretty punchy views on tax, innovation and public spending, which could have significant implications for both corporates and consumers,” Emma Wall, head of investment analysis at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, said by email.Banks, utilities, transport and and defense are the sectors with most at stake should there be a change in the balance of power, according to Caroline Simmons, deputy head of UBS Wealth Management’s U.K. Investment Office.Here’s what to watch as the poll looms.FTSE 100Given Labour had made taking no-deal out of the equation a prerequisite of supporting a general election, the risk of a no-deal Brexit has reduced, which is likely to support U.K. risk assets, according to Edward Park, deputy chief investment officer at wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group Plc.Should parliament return in December with a mandate for the withdrawal deal brokered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, “sterling will value the reduced no-deal threat and continue the rally seen in recent weeks,” Park said by email. If that proves the case, then the inverse relationship between the exporter-heavy FTSE 100 and the pound should mean the index underperforms, he said.BanksLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister could be just as damaging to British banks’ profits as the U.K. crashing out of the European Union without a deal.According to Citigroup Inc. analyst Andrew Coombs, the biggest risk to the U.K. banking sector is snap elections, given the impact on sentiment attached to the possibility of a Labour victory. The party’s “business unfriendly” deficit-financed policies would likely lead to capital outflows from the U.K., he wrote.U.K. lenders Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc have gained 5.6% and 7.7%, respectively, this month as the risk of a no-deal exit reduced.Utilities and TransportShares of companies that keep Britons warm and bathed have been an excellent indicator of U.K. election risk ever since Labour first vowed to nationalize utilities a few years back. Top of this list are water and electricity utilities, covering the likes of United Utilities Group Plc, Severn Trent Plc, National Grid Plc and SSE Plc.“While fears of nationalization under Corbyn’s rule have remained subdued with lingering Brexit angst, a renewed Labour leadership campaign could weigh heavily on U.K. utilities,” said Andrew Coury, a strategist at Liberum Capital.But if the Conservatives are able to regain power in an election, this threat would evaporate and the underperformance of U.K. utilities to their European peers may be reversed. It could be a similar story for other stocks and sectors Labour is said to have targeted for nationalization, including postal-service operator Royal Mail Plc and the companies that run British transport services like FirstGroup Plc and Stagecoach Group Plc.HousebuildersThe U.K. still suffers from an imbalance between the demand for housing and the volume of new houses being built, so any party campaigning for government would likely have to address this as part of their policy platform.Liberum expects the housing market to slow in the run-up to the election, but that housebuilder shares may outperform should the Conservatives emerge victorious. It particularly favors smaller companies such as Bellway Plc and Galliford Try Plc, which it says should benefit from better risk appetite and which have more attractive valuations.DefenseCorbyn has been a vocal opponent of military intervention in the Middle East and has argued for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. His anti-war stance could hurt defense suppliers such as BAE Systems Plc, according to Citi, which estimated Aug. 1 that the London-based firm’s stock could fall 20% if Labour came to power.The U.K.’s Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarine program -- another of BAE’s projects -- would also be at risk, Citi analyst Charles Armitage wrote. The level of risk to Dreadnought would be reduced if Labour entered a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, he said. A pact with the Scottish National Party would leave both Dreadnought and the Saudi business vulnerable, Armitage added.RetailersIf an election can produce a clear winner and therefore some clarity on the way forward, that may prove positive for retailers as shoppers should be more confident to spend.However, if the ultimate outcome is a hung parliament, making passing legislation even more difficult, that would likely be negative for the sector.Also watch for any impact on companies that own Britain’s shops, particularly the already-battered mall owners Intu Properties Plc and Hammerson Plc. Though UBS analysts think Brexit is only one of the problems that the sub-sector faces.ConstructionU.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid used his first set piece event in the role in early September to lay out plans to spend more money on infrastructure. There have been no further details since then and Javid had to cancel his planned Budget announcement, but if this is revived it would be positive for construction contractors like Balfour Beatty Plc, Costain Group Plc and Keller Group Plc.To contact the reporters on this story: Joe Easton in London at jeaston7@bloomberg.net;Sam Unsted in London at sunsted@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Beth Mellor at bmellor@bloomberg.net, Paul JarvisFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:38:28 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/stocks-watch-u-k-heads-083828793.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is headed to the polls on Dec. 12, bringing banks, utilities and housebuilders into focus for U.K. equity investors. There’s also the small matter of Brexit, as strategists digest what the latest developments mean for sterling and U.K. assets.In the lead-up to the vote, “both Labour and the Conservatives are expected to come out with pretty punchy views on tax, innovation and public spending, which could have significant implications for both corporates and consumers,” Emma Wall, head of investment analysis at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, said by email.Banks, utilities, transport and and defense are the sectors with most at stake should there be a change in the balance of power, according to Caroline Simmons, deputy head of UBS Wealth Management’s U.K. Investment Office.Here’s what to watch as the poll looms.FTSE 100Given Labour had made taking no-deal out of the equation a prerequisite of supporting a general election, the risk of a no-deal Brexit has reduced, which is likely to support U.K. risk assets, according to Edward Park, deputy chief investment officer at wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group Plc.Should parliament return in December with a mandate for the withdrawal deal brokered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, “sterling will value the reduced no-deal threat and continue the rally seen in recent weeks,” Park said by email. If that proves the case, then the inverse relationship between the exporter-heavy FTSE 100 and the pound should mean the index underperforms, he said.BanksLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister could be just as damaging to British banks’ profits as the U.K. crashing out of the European Union without a deal.According to Citigroup Inc. analyst Andrew Coombs, the biggest risk to the U.K. banking sector is snap elections, given the impact on sentiment attached to the possibility of a Labour victory. The party’s “business unfriendly” deficit-financed policies would likely lead to capital outflows from the U.K., he wrote.U.K. lenders Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc have gained 5.6% and 7.7%, respectively, this month as the risk of a no-deal exit reduced.Utilities and TransportShares of companies that keep Britons warm and bathed have been an excellent indicator of U.K. election risk ever since Labour first vowed to nationalize utilities a few years back. Top of this list are water and electricity utilities, covering the likes of United Utilities Group Plc, Severn Trent Plc, National Grid Plc and SSE Plc.“While fears of nationalization under Corbyn’s rule have remained subdued with lingering Brexit angst, a renewed Labour leadership campaign could weigh heavily on U.K. utilities,” said Andrew Coury, a strategist at Liberum Capital.But if the Conservatives are able to regain power in an election, this threat would evaporate and the underperformance of U.K. utilities to their European peers may be reversed. It could be a similar story for other stocks and sectors Labour is said to have targeted for nationalization, including postal-service operator Royal Mail Plc and the companies that run British transport services like FirstGroup Plc and Stagecoach Group Plc.HousebuildersThe U.K. still suffers from an imbalance between the demand for housing and the volume of new houses being built, so any party campaigning for government would likely have to address this as part of their policy platform.Liberum expects the housing market to slow in the run-up to the election, but that housebuilder shares may outperform should the Conservatives emerge victorious. It particularly favors smaller companies such as Bellway Plc and Galliford Try Plc, which it says should benefit from better risk appetite and which have more attractive valuations.DefenseCorbyn has been a vocal opponent of military intervention in the Middle East and has argued for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. His anti-war stance could hurt defense suppliers such as BAE Systems Plc, according to Citi, which estimated Aug. 1 that the London-based firm’s stock could fall 20% if Labour came to power.The U.K.’s Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarine program -- another of BAE’s projects -- would also be at risk, Citi analyst Charles Armitage wrote. The level of risk to Dreadnought would be reduced if Labour entered a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, he said. A pact with the Scottish National Party would leave both Dreadnought and the Saudi business vulnerable, Armitage added.RetailersIf an election can produce a clear winner and therefore some clarity on the way forward, that may prove positive for retailers as shoppers should be more confident to spend.However, if the ultimate outcome is a hung parliament, making passing legislation even more difficult, that would likely be negative for the sector.Also watch for any impact on companies that own Britain’s shops, particularly the already-battered mall owners Intu Properties Plc and Hammerson Plc. Though UBS analysts think Brexit is only one of the problems that the sub-sector faces.ConstructionU.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid used his first set piece event in the role in early September to lay out plans to spend more money on infrastructure. There have been no further details since then and Javid had to cancel his planned Budget announcement, but if this is revived it would be positive for construction contractors like Balfour Beatty Plc, Costain Group Plc and Keller Group Plc.To contact the reporters on this story: Joe Easton in London at jeaston7@bloomberg.net;Sam Unsted in London at sunsted@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Beth Mellor at bmellor@bloomberg.net, Paul JarvisFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:32:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-reportedly-testified-trump-thought-023200283.html,"During his testimony before House investigators on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, said President Trump was under the impression that a different person -- a longtime staffer of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) -- actually held his position, people familiar with his testimony told Politico. Vindman said that Kashyap Patel ""misrepresented"" himself, and despite having no experience or expertise on Ukraine, was part of the White House's Ukraine policy discussion, Politico reports. Vindman found this out after he attended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration in May, and was preparing to give Trump a debriefing on the event and Zelensky's plans for the future, he reportedly testified. Vindman revealed that ""at the last second,"" his boss at the time, Fiona Hill, told him not to attend the debriefing because it might confuse Trump, who thought Patel was the top Ukraine expert.Patel, Nunes' top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, was known for trying to discredit Justice Department and FBI officials who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Politico reports. He joined the White House in February, and in July, was promoted to a senior counterterrorism role. Hill testified earlier this month that Trump thought Patel was in charge of the National Security Council's Ukraine policy, Politico says.Vindman, who told investigators he's never had a conversation with Patel, also said he was told Patel ignored National Security Council procedures and put negative information about Ukraine in front of Trump, which reinforced his belief that the country was corrupt, Politico reports. It's unclear where he received this information. Read more at Politico.",,Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" +Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" +Case of school security guard who told student not to use N-word shows respect trumps race,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:42:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/case-school-security-guard-told-100011134.html,"Who am I, a white man, to police the racial language of my African American students? But, despite the queasy feeling, sometimes the answer is clear.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/o8VwD12CWsKdcI9wgrsaAA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0c35a4d27f9ac6c1e977e7ac1a1304fd,Case of school security guard who told student not to use N-word shows respect trumps race +A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers +Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ +View Photos of the 2020 Hyundai Palisade vs. 2020 Kia Telluride,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-photos-2020-hyundai-palisade-175900825.html,,,View Photos of the 2020 Hyundai Palisade vs. 2020 Kia Telluride +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:32:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-reportedly-testified-trump-thought-023200283.html,"During his testimony before House investigators on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, said President Trump was under the impression that a different person -- a longtime staffer of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) -- actually held his position, people familiar with his testimony told Politico. Vindman said that Kashyap Patel ""misrepresented"" himself, and despite having no experience or expertise on Ukraine, was part of the White House's Ukraine policy discussion, Politico reports. Vindman found this out after he attended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration in May, and was preparing to give Trump a debriefing on the event and Zelensky's plans for the future, he reportedly testified. Vindman revealed that ""at the last second,"" his boss at the time, Fiona Hill, told him not to attend the debriefing because it might confuse Trump, who thought Patel was the top Ukraine expert.Patel, Nunes' top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, was known for trying to discredit Justice Department and FBI officials who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Politico reports. He joined the White House in February, and in July, was promoted to a senior counterterrorism role. Hill testified earlier this month that Trump thought Patel was in charge of the National Security Council's Ukraine policy, Politico says.Vindman, who told investigators he's never had a conversation with Patel, also said he was told Patel ignored National Security Council procedures and put negative information about Ukraine in front of Trump, which reinforced his belief that the country was corrupt, Politico reports. It's unclear where he received this information. Read more at Politico.",,Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:50:37 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-accused-republicans-trying-trick-115037056.html,"In a closed-door deposition, Republicans questioned Lt. Col. Vindman on whom he had discussed trump's Ukraine call with, alarming Democrats.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qN4ONngqfmq8d.vUl27giA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/81772143405c0f5364cae32715593259,Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist +"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:50:37 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-accused-republicans-trying-trick-115037056.html,"In a closed-door deposition, Republicans questioned Lt. Col. Vindman on whom he had discussed trump's Ukraine call with, alarming Democrats.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qN4ONngqfmq8d.vUl27giA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/81772143405c0f5364cae32715593259,Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? +"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah +Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse +China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens +"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" +Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe +Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! +Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans +Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy +"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" +Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires +House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump +Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields +Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution +Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors +2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? +"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" +"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" +Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing +Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' +"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" +A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state +Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji +This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 +NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden +UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote +The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0c4e58d --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv @@ -0,0 +1,745 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:33:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, +India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, +Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:10:40 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, +Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, +Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, +4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, +Now's the time to refi. 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Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, +7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, +70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, +India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, +Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, +Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, +Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, +4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, +Now's the time to refi. 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Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, +7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, +70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, +India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, +Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, +Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, +Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, +4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, +Now's the time to refi. 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Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, +7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, +70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, +India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, +Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, +Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, +Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, +4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, +Now's the time to refi. 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Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" +Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state +The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" +Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state +The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" +Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state +The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:05:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-trump-zelensky-phone-conversation-120539062.html,"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening defended President Trump from accusations of corruption based on the contents of a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.""The call was consistent with what I had a long set of conversations with President Trump on our policy for an awfully long time,"" Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. ""Our policy has been very clear all along with respect to Ukraine.""House Democrats are conducting an impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military aid marked for Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate corruption allegations against political rival Joe Biden and his son. The inquiry is based in part on a July 25 conversation between Trump and Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly urges his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the Bidens.""I heard the President very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption – whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that the monies that were being provided would be used appropriately,"" he continued. ""It was very consistent with what I’d understood President Trump and our administration to be doing all along.""Pompeo asserted that State Department officials who have given testimony detrimental to Trump during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry were in fact on the same page as the President in regards to policy on Ukraine.""My understanding is that every one of these individuals had the same Ukrainian policy that President Trump had,"" Pompeo said.The House is due to vote on formalizing the inquiry on Thursday.On Wednesday, National Security Council Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, who listened to the call between Trump and Zelensky, testified to Congress that the transcript of the conversation released by the White House had been altered.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ach0B6AmtTpbiQhKLKSwWw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/1963769d6e33edd2a9e4003a6813da81,Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:05:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-trump-zelensky-phone-conversation-120539062.html,"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening defended President Trump from accusations of corruption based on the contents of a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.""The call was consistent with what I had a long set of conversations with President Trump on our policy for an awfully long time,"" Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. ""Our policy has been very clear all along with respect to Ukraine.""House Democrats are conducting an impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military aid marked for Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate corruption allegations against political rival Joe Biden and his son. The inquiry is based in part on a July 25 conversation between Trump and Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly urges his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the Bidens.""I heard the President very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption – whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that the monies that were being provided would be used appropriately,"" he continued. ""It was very consistent with what I’d understood President Trump and our administration to be doing all along.""Pompeo asserted that State Department officials who have given testimony detrimental to Trump during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry were in fact on the same page as the President in regards to policy on Ukraine.""My understanding is that every one of these individuals had the same Ukrainian policy that President Trump had,"" Pompeo said.The House is due to vote on formalizing the inquiry on Thursday.On Wednesday, National Security Council Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, who listened to the call between Trump and Zelensky, testified to Congress that the transcript of the conversation released by the White House had been altered.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ach0B6AmtTpbiQhKLKSwWw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/1963769d6e33edd2a9e4003a6813da81,Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the revenge porn campaign targeting Rep. Katie Hill is a 'major crime' that wouldn't happen to a male member of Congress,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-revenge-143642245.html,"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried the publication of nude photos of Rep. Katie Hill, who announced her resignation from Congress this week.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fr2UZHbKq8xmmxAY3AwuuQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/8e7523e8a3b3c297f63efe28eba0cc74,Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the revenge porn campaign targeting Rep. Katie Hill is a 'major crime' that wouldn't happen to a male member of Congress +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong +She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +The Latest: Video shows US forces in Syria border area,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:15:44 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-turkey-says-captured-18-135616944.html,"New video shows U.S. armored vehicles patrolling near oil facilities in an area of northern Syria that saw recent heavy fighting between Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces, and from which American troops had withdrawn. The video, aired by Kurdistan 24, an Iraqi Kurdish network, showed what appeared to be U.S. special operations forces visiting oil facilities east of the city of Qamishli on Thursday. A witness says aircraft overhead provided cover as the patrol visited six small oil facilities.",,The Latest: Video shows US forces in Syria border area +History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta +The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:22:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-wish-hunter-034516851.html,"Donald Trump Jr., a man who shares the same name as the President of the United States and is currently the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said with a straight face on Wednesday night that he wished his name was Hunter Biden so he could “make millions off my father's presidency.”During an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity to hawk his upcoming book Triggered, Trump Jr. quickly turned his sights on the impeachment inquiry his father is currently facing. After Trump Jr. called it a “sham” and claimed “the reasonable people in the middle” support his dad, Sean Hannity asked the presidential scion about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The president is facing impeachment largely due to his efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into the Democratic presidential nominee and his family.Insisting the media protects Biden and doesn’t report on unsubstantiated claims that the former veep forced Ukrainian leaders to drop investigations into his son, Hannity then wondered aloud what would happen if Trump Jr.’s name was Hunter Biden.“I wish my name was Hunter Biden,” the president’s eldest son said without a hint of irony. “I could go abroad, make millions off of my father’s presidency—I’d be a really rich guy! It would be incredible!”Trump Jr. then brought up unfounded allegations that Hunter Biden got a sweetheart $1.5 billion deal from China thanks to a desire by Beijing to curry favor with the then-vice president, claiming that if he got “$1.5 from China” the media’s “heads would explode.”“They would have an aneurysm—we’d end the fake news problem,” he concluded. “That is the double standard that we are living under right now. That is the double standard the American people are sick and tired of.”While the lack of self-awareness should be apparent, it should also be noted that while his father has been president, Trump Jr. has opened himself and his dad up to a whole host of conflict of interest issues. For example, a trip to India Trump Jr. took to sell his family’s condominium projects cost American taxpayers roughly $100,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vypoOIdHZqPTuyClu9C_Ig--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/0a13e97fac312f151608d8bf81deece6,Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’ +"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:59:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/desert-winds-fuel-twin-wildfires-125958841.html,"More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people. The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to 200 acres (80 hectares) and was starting to consume homes near scrub-covered slopes in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A helicopter and a small plane dropped water and retardant on the flames, according to Chris Prater, a fire department spokesman.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/As0Alga6NdnqgVgKSwm0sA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/7b13d9ec06bc690d60c21f3db52c21f1,"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:22:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-wish-hunter-034516851.html,"Donald Trump Jr., a man who shares the same name as the President of the United States and is currently the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said with a straight face on Wednesday night that he wished his name was Hunter Biden so he could “make millions off my father's presidency.”During an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity to hawk his upcoming book Triggered, Trump Jr. quickly turned his sights on the impeachment inquiry his father is currently facing. After Trump Jr. called it a “sham” and claimed “the reasonable people in the middle” support his dad, Sean Hannity asked the presidential scion about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The president is facing impeachment largely due to his efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into the Democratic presidential nominee and his family.Insisting the media protects Biden and doesn’t report on unsubstantiated claims that the former veep forced Ukrainian leaders to drop investigations into his son, Hannity then wondered aloud what would happen if Trump Jr.’s name was Hunter Biden.“I wish my name was Hunter Biden,” the president’s eldest son said without a hint of irony. “I could go abroad, make millions off of my father’s presidency—I’d be a really rich guy! It would be incredible!”Trump Jr. then brought up unfounded allegations that Hunter Biden got a sweetheart $1.5 billion deal from China thanks to a desire by Beijing to curry favor with the then-vice president, claiming that if he got “$1.5 from China” the media’s “heads would explode.”“They would have an aneurysm—we’d end the fake news problem,” he concluded. “That is the double standard that we are living under right now. That is the double standard the American people are sick and tired of.”While the lack of self-awareness should be apparent, it should also be noted that while his father has been president, Trump Jr. has opened himself and his dad up to a whole host of conflict of interest issues. For example, a trip to India Trump Jr. took to sell his family’s condominium projects cost American taxpayers roughly $100,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vypoOIdHZqPTuyClu9C_Ig--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/0a13e97fac312f151608d8bf81deece6,Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’ +"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:59:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/desert-winds-fuel-twin-wildfires-125958841.html,"More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people. The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to 200 acres (80 hectares) and was starting to consume homes near scrub-covered slopes in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A helicopter and a small plane dropped water and retardant on the flames, according to Chris Prater, a fire department spokesman.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/As0Alga6NdnqgVgKSwm0sA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/7b13d9ec06bc690d60c21f3db52c21f1,"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained +Impeachment trial could complicate Democratic senators' U.S. presidential bids,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:06:04 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/impeachment-trial-could-complicate-democratic-100604502.html,"Democratic U.S. senators vying for the party's 2020 presidential nomination face the increasing likelihood of being tethered to Washington for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial just as they need to ramp up efforts in early-voting states. With the U.S. House of Representatives set to vote on Thursday on next steps in the impeachment probe, lawmakers there anticipate the investigation could wrap up by year's end or early 2020, at which point the process will move to the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has said a trial requiring the presence of the full Senate could take place six days a week.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/NBP5ObIps5m5Czjd4rcFZA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/91e91d747543a06790c063c82047aae0,Impeachment trial could complicate Democratic senators' U.S. presidential bids +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Netflix Drops Horrifying Camp Fire Documentary ‘Fire in Paradise’ as California Burns,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:39:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/netflix-drops-horrifying-camp-fire-093958850.html,"Karl Mondon/GettyLike people, wildfires aren’t born coherent or fully formed. They rarely have one direction or one goal. Fires are fluid and disparate, made up of smaller blazes and embers, some of which might merge into irrational explosions or veer off in different directions. (Scientists have dubbed this odd meandering, not “fire movement” or “fire patterns,” but “fire behavior”). Today, Los Angeles, like Sonoma County, is on fire. The city smells like everyone is having a cookout. On maps, the evacuation zone is drawn in hard lines, starting just five miles from where I’m writing this—a box framed by Mulholland Drive in the north, the 405 in the east, Sunset Boulevard in the south and Temescal Canyon Road in the west. But with hurricane-like winds predicted this week, there remains some uncertainty about just where, exactly, the blaze might go. Unlike actual flames, the stories of fire have a predictable arc: low humidity, dry fuel, some small ignition (a cigarette, a powerline), ferocious wind, dispatch calls, mobile alerts, confused evacuators, missing heirlooms, lost lives, thousands of tired firefighters, and later, aerial photos of the earth, burnt into a scar. The familiarity makes the worst fire stories the hardest to tell. How do you capture the chaos of a place like Paradise—leveled last year by the Camp Fire, California’s deadliest in a century—when we all know the end? One hundred and fifty thousand acres burned. Nineteen thousand structures were destroyed. Eighty-five people, most of them disabled or elderly, dead. In that sense, Fire in Paradise, a new documentary directed by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari which streams on Netflix this Friday, doesn’t break ground. The tight, 40-minute film isn’t an exercise in narrative form. There’s no narration at all. It’s a time capsule—a minute-by-minute replay, told by the people who lived it and spliced with source footage: dispatch calls, cellphone videos, and clips from an eerily upbeat weatherman. But it’s also a forecast, both for what the state will undergo these next few weeks, and what will replay in fire seasons to come. Inside L.A.’s High-End Getty Fire Evacuation CenterThe Weird Weather Fanning the Flames in CaliforniaFire in Paradise opens with an omen—at once self-conscious and effective. The camera pans on a forest, dry but unburned. An answering machine beeps in the background and a robocall sets the scene. “This is an important safety alert from Pacific Gas & Electric Company,” the monotone voice says. “Extreme weather conditions and high fire danger are forecasted in Butte County, starting Thursday, November 8, 2018.” Months after that morning, investigators would find the utility company responsible for as many as 10 of the fires which scorched the state last year. It’s another reminder of the film as forecast—this season, PG&E; has already taken heat for at least one inferno, and cutting power to millions across the state, leaving some to escape in the dark with little warning. As the voiceover continues, a square screen appears over the forest, playing a montage of home videos. Families bowl; a man fishes; couples dance and swim; kids dressed as cowboys hop a potato-sack race. “To protect public safety,” the robovoice goes on, “PG&E; may temporarily turn off power in your neighborhood or community.” The screen goes black. “Please have your emergency plan ready.”The account of the following hours unfold through interviews with residents and first responders—when they heard about the fire, when they got scared, when they fled. The most powerful moments don’t come from the speakers describing the fire. One of the unnerving things about extreme natural disasters is how language fails to keep pace with their severity: “It got bad real quick,” one dispatcher says. Another resident echoes: “It felt unreal.” Instead, the strongest scenes emerge from people describing people. At one point, an auburn-haired teacher named Mary Ludwig recalls boarding a bus filled with students, watching them yawn from the low-oxygen air, and making impromptu masks from the driver’s shirt and the sole water bottle on board. She hoped they wouldn’t work: “We prayed that we would die of smoke inhalation.” Later, resident Joy Beeson, a wry elderly woman with blue nail polish and a pink fleece, describes escaping with her son. “I ran out in my Skechers and my pajamas,” she says. “I was running out of breath, and my son put his hand on my back and said, ‘You’ve got to run now, Mama.’” When Beeson pushed ahead, a burning tree fell where she stood just seconds before: “My son saved my life.” A third survivor, a Cal Fire captain named Sean Norman, remembers evacuating a family that didn’t want to leave. If you don’t go, he told them, you will die. As the fire bore down, Norman couldn’t keep convincing them. He fled. “They survived,” he says, choking up. “They don’t like me very much. But at least they’re around to not like me.” Still, what makes Fire in Paradise essential viewing isn’t anything the subjects said or the directors captured. It comes from the amateurs, from the cellphone videos filmed from inside cars or while fleeing on foot. Near the end of the movie, the inevitable aerial shot arrives, revealing city blocks reduced to black squares. In the background, newscasters list unthinkable numbers: 77 deaths so far, 1,000 missing people. Then, the camera cuts to a stunning recording. It’s shot by an anonymous man walking through his old town. The landscape is so scorched the tape looks sepia. Only a few faint colors (a fleck of car paint, a blue flame) prove otherwise. The man pans toward the remains of a few cars, narrating in a squeaky voice. “Now this is the poor guy,” he says, “came down to get my crippled friend out.” He zooms in on the front car. It could be a Honda or a Dodge or a Geo or really any smallish, average car. Identifying markers have all been burned away. “He didn’t make it. None of these people made it down here. These people all got burnt up. I was right down below them here.” The man approaches the shattered windshield, focusing on the hollowed-out front seats. “My friend, you can see he’s dead.” In fact, you can’t see it. The images are unintelligible, all abstract lumps and black lines. But then he pans to a window, and something comes into focus: a blackened skull, and beneath it, bones. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/33hwbB28ORhRhZQMKMgv9Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/b918ec5adac82db62f87f4da32698588,Netflix Drops Horrifying Camp Fire Documentary ‘Fire in Paradise’ as California Burns +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" +"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:37:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-group-announces-successor-153846160.html,"The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. The speaker in the audio also confirmed the death of Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, a close aide of al-Baghdadi and a spokesman for the group since 2016.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fivXDH2rwHyqVQcwyhaFIw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dfbeabe545288a1916e6d2fb2fb1776b,Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:37:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-group-announces-successor-153846160.html,"The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. The speaker in the audio also confirmed the death of Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, a close aide of al-Baghdadi and a spokesman for the group since 2016.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fivXDH2rwHyqVQcwyhaFIw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dfbeabe545288a1916e6d2fb2fb1776b,Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" +Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days +"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" +Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain +Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders +Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact +Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit +Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge +U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic +India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal +Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start +Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines +Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day +China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones +"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index 8867a02..ecf4337 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -1,5 +1,4 @@ import requests -import re import os import datetime @@ -16,11 +15,15 @@ PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' +class NewsNotFoundError(FileNotFoundError): + pass + + class NewsReader: """ Class for reading news from rss-format files. - @Input: url + :param: url """ def __init__(self, url, limit=None, verbose=False, cashing=False): @@ -52,7 +55,6 @@ def get_news(self): result = request.text tree = ET.fromstring(result) - print(result) items = dict() items.setdefault('title', ' ') @@ -72,6 +74,11 @@ def get_news(self): news_description = dict() # TODO: set useful_tags as default tags! + news_description.setdefault('title', 'no title') + news_description.setdefault('pubDate', str(datetime.datetime.today().date())) + news_description.setdefault('link', 'no link') + news_description.setdefault('description', 'no description') + for description in item: if description.tag in useful_tags: news_description[description.tag] = description.text @@ -114,7 +121,6 @@ def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash'): if os.path.getsize(path) == 0: csv_writer.writerow(news.keys()) - print(news.values()) csv_writer.writerow(news.values()) @staticmethod @@ -160,7 +166,6 @@ def get_date(news): :return: date of news publication """ - print(news) news_date = news['pubDate'] # news_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') @@ -282,8 +287,10 @@ def to_json(self): return json_result -feed = NewsReader(' http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=None, cashing=True) -print(feed.read_by_date('20191028')) +# feed = NewsReader(' http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=None, cashing=True) +# print(feed.read_by_date('20191028')) +# it = feed.items + # date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') From a5f065e63155005a5dcb605b682e8a041f67b8d6 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vadbeg Date: Sun, 3 Nov 2019 16:32:13 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 08/11] New converter into html was added. --- news_feed/format_converter.py | 136 ++++++++++++- news_feed/news.html | 360 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ news_feed/news.pdf | Bin 203322 -> 187735 bytes 3 files changed, 491 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) create mode 100644 news_feed/news.html diff --git a/news_feed/format_converter.py b/news_feed/format_converter.py index 343b3f9..a15e052 100644 --- a/news_feed/format_converter.py +++ b/news_feed/format_converter.py @@ -21,13 +21,14 @@ def silent_remove(path): except OSError: pass + class PdfNewsConverter(FPDF): """ Easy-to-use pdf rss news converter """ - def __init__(self, items, asd): + def __init__(self, items): """ :param items: Rss in dictionary @@ -126,6 +127,7 @@ def add_news_page(self, item): image_link = item['imageLink'] image_description = item['imageDescription'] + print(image_link) self.set_font('Times', 'I', 14) self.multi_cell(w=0, h=10, txt=title, align='C') @@ -165,12 +167,136 @@ def add_all_news(self): self.add_news_page(plot) +class HTMLNewsConverter: + """ + Easy-to-use html rss news-converter + + """ + + def __init__(self, items): + """ + + :param items: Rss in dictionary + """ + + self.items = items + + one_news_template = """ +

{title}

+

Date: {pubDate}

+ News link +

{description}

+ No image +

Image description: {imageDescription}

+ """ + + def add_one_news(self, item): + """ + Add one news info into html + + :param item: one news info + :return: one news info into html + """ + + title = item['title'] + pub_date = item['pubDate'] + link = item['link'] + description = item['description'] + image_link = item['imageLink'] + image_description = item['imageDescription'] + + template = self.one_news_template.format( + title=title, + pubDate=pub_date, + link=link, + description=description, + imageLink=image_link, + imageDescription=image_description + ) + + return template + + @staticmethod + def create_res_html_template(): + """ + Creates outer tags for whole html. + + :return: outer opening tags, outer closing tags + """ + + res_html_start = """ + + + + """ + + res_html_end = """ + + + """ + + return res_html_start, res_html_end + + @staticmethod + def create_title(title): + """ + Create tag for title of rss source + + :param title: title of rss source + :return: title of rss source in html + """ + + title = f""" +

{title}

+ """ + + return title + + def add_all_news(self): + """ + Add all news into html between outer + opening tags and outer closing tags + + :return: resulting html file + """ + + res_html_start, res_html_end = self.create_res_html_template() + + for el, plot in self.items.items(): + if el == 'title': + res_html_start += self.create_title(plot) + else: + res_html_start += self.add_one_news(plot) + + res_html = res_html_start + res_html_end + + return res_html + + def output(self, path): + """ + Outputs resulting html into file + + :param path: path into which we should add res html + :return: None + """ + + res_html = self.add_all_news() + + with open(path, 'w') as file: + file.write(res_html) + + feed = NewsReader('https://news.yahoo.com/rss/', limit=None, cashing=False) it = feed.items it = it -pdf = PdfNewsConverter(it) +# pdf = PdfNewsConverter(it) +# +# pdf.add_all_news() +# pdf.output('news.pdf', 'F') +# print(pdf.items) + +html = HTMLNewsConverter(it) + +html.output('news.html') -pdf.add_all_news() -pdf.output('news.pdf', 'F') -print(pdf.items) diff --git a/news_feed/news.html b/news_feed/news.html new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b2a770b --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news.html @@ -0,0 +1,360 @@ + + + + + +

Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

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Court ruling could throw impeachment timeline into disarray

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:22:05 -0400

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Even as House Democrats on Thursday ratified an impeachment resolution against President Trump, a federal judge has potentially slowed the brisk pace of the inquiry by declining to rule on whether a key witness needed to testify before the House of Representatives.

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2020 Vision: If a single speech can shake up the Democratic race, it might happen in Iowa

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:07:03 -0400

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Will any of this year’s candidates pull an Obama at the newly named Liberty and Justice Celebration?

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Ex-officer gets 12 years in naked man's fatal shooting

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:04:14 -0400

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A former Georgia police officer convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Robert "Chip" Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-year-old Anthony Hill, a black Air Force veteran who'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD. Olsen, who is white, was convicted of one count of aggravated assault, two counts of violating his oath of office and one count of making a false statement.

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California wildfires: Climate change driving ‘horror and the terror’ of devastating blazes, say scientists

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:52:49 -0400

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The words from California’s former governor could barely have been more stark.“I said it was the new normal a few years ago,’’ said Jerry Brown. “This is serious, but this is only the beginning. This is only a taste of the horror and the terror that will occur in decades.”

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Maria Fire broke out minutes after utility company re-energized high-voltage power line

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:51:27 -0400

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Southern California Edison says it turned power back on minutes before the Maria Fire erupted nearby in Ventura County

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Hollow building becomes center of Iraq's uprising

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:41:37 -0400

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The skeleton of a high-rise building overlooking Baghdad's central Tahrir Square known as the Turkish Restaurant has become a temporary home and a bustling center for protesters staging demonstrations against Iraq's ruling elites. Dressed in combat trousers and wearing an Iraqi flag as a cape, the 35-year-old is the leader of the group, made up of 20-odd young men who occupy a corner of the building's base. Groups of young men have occupied all 18 floors of the building, with its cramped unlit narrow staircases.

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Who Wore It Better? 10 Names Shared by Automakers

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 08:20:00 -0400

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Toll in Philippine quakes climbs to 21

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:07:41 -0500

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The death toll in two powerful quakes that struck the southern Philippines in the past week has risen to 21, authorities said Sunday, as survivors struggled to access food and water. The 6.6-magnitude and 6.5-magnitude quakes hit the island of Mindanao two days apart, destroying buildings and displacing tens of thousands of residents. The quakes also left 432 residents injured with two people still missing, it added.

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A Louisiana woman has been arrested for selling $20 fake doctor's notes to students trying to skip class

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:55:04 -0400

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The woman's master plan unraveled once the physician whose name was being used to sign off on the notes received complaints from the school board.

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Have Kentuckians finally had enough of Mitch McConnell?

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:40:54 -0400

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A recent poll shows that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the president’s most stolid defender, is down to an 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky. Only 37 percent in a recent Public Policy Poll said they would vote for him again next year.

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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:10:06 -0400

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October was the first full month in at least 18 years in which the United States did not admit any refugees.

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Louisiana man gets probation in whooping crane death

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:08:32 -0400

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A Louisiana man was sentenced to probation Friday for killing one of the state's oldest whooping cranes . Gilvin P. Aucoin Jr., of Ville Platte, shot the endangered whooping crane in July 2018 in Evangeline Parish. In a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol B. Whitehurst, Aucoin changed his plea to guilty for a misdemeanor violation of the International Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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Ken Cuccinelli Calls Debbie Wasserman Schultz a Witch: She ‘Got on Her Broom and Left’

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:37:16 -0400

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A day after a contentious congressional hearing in which he was accused by Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) of pushing a “heinous white supremacist ideology,” acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli essentially called the congresswoman a witch.Appearing on Fox & Friends on Friday morning, Cuccinelli brushed off questions about whether he’s still being considered to head up the Department of Homeland Security by saying he will keep doing his current job “in the face of some people who would rather we are not as successful.”“Are you referring to Debbie Wasserman Schultz by chance,” co-host Ainsley Earhardt asked, prompting Cuccinelli to say she was “among them.”The hosts went on to play a video clip from Thursday’s contentious hearing in which the Florida lawmaker claimed the Cuccinelli and President Donald Trump were pursuing a white supremacist policy by denying public benefits to legal immigrants, including children.“That’s one of those things that politicians can say things because they are protected,” co-host Steve Doocy remarked. “However, you are—as somebody who is serving in the public interests—you have to give facts.”Cuccinelli insisted that while he was under oath, Wasserman Schultz was “literally protected to lie,” citing the speech and debate clause in the Constitution. He then asserted that she only came into the hearing to make a speech before making his witch allusion.“She wasn’t at much of the committee hearing,” he said. “She came in, laid on her smears on both me and the president, all completely false. And then wasn’t there much longer, got on her broom and left. It was a fly-by for her and to get a little sound bite.”The hosts, meanwhile, rather than push back on Cuccinelli’s not-so-veiled sexist insult of a female lawmaker, instead expressed sympathy for the Trump immigration chief.“She didn’t want you to interrupt her,” Earhardt declared. “And I guess the rules prevent you from doing but she is smearing your reputation and character and saying something you don’t feel like it is true. You have to defend yourself.”Following Cuccinelli’s Fox & Friends remarks, Wasserman Schultz took to Twitter to respond, calling out the Trump official for trying to “silence outspoken women who speak truth to power.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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This time, Southern California was prepared for wildfires. Here's how countless homes were saved

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:47:36 -0400

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The winds roared again but Los Angeles and other Southern California cities were prepared as firefighters saved thousands of homes.

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Teachers strike taught Chicago's new mayor tough lessons -analysts

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:27:56 -0400

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made strategic errors in the first major fight of her tenure, an 11-day teachers' strike, but may have learned lessons that will prove useful as she confronts immense city budget challenges, political observers said. Lightfoot, 57, was elected in convincing fashion to become Chicago's first black woman mayor in April, when she vaulted to victory on promises to dismantle the city's corrupt political machine and reform the city's school district.

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Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Won’t End the World

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:00:00 -0400

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A recent video by Princeton University’s Program on Science and Global Security, Plan A, suggests that the use of one low-yield non-strategic nuclear weapon, in a NATO-Russia conflict, would lead to the large scale use of strategic nuclear weapons and the death of more than 90 million people. While the video’s makers deserve credit for its production quality and very ominous background music, the scenario they offer, while always possible, is highly unlikely.

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Exxon, Chevron Begin Pushing Back Against Warren’s Fracking Ban

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:53:48 -0400

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(Bloomberg) -- America’s two biggest oil companies are starting to push back against the fracking ban touted by the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, which may become one of the most consequential flashpoints for energy markets during the election campaign.Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. executives spoke out publicly against the proposals for the first time on Friday, saying they would shift profits from crude production from the U.S. to other countries, and may increase prices for consumers while doing nothing to reduce oil demand or greenhouse-gas emissions.It’s a line of attack that’s likely to feature heavily in debates in the year ahead as the energy industry and Republicans seek to counter the Democratic Party’s green wing. To be sure, whoever gets elected next year will find it difficult to end fracking. Presidential powers to enact a ban only extend to federal lands, something that would be certain to face immediate legal challenges. A wider restriction would need to go through Congress.“Any efforts to ban fracking or restrict supply will not remove demand for the resource,” Neil Hansen, Exxon’s vice president of investor relations, said on a conference call with analysts. “If anything it will shift the economic benefit away from the U.S. to another country, and a potentially impact the price of that commodity here and globally.”Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two front-runners in the race to be the Democratic candidate, are keen to stop America’s reliance on fossil fuels, and they also want to end what they say is Washington’s subservience to corporate interests. They also know how to hit Exxon and Chevron where it hurts. Five years ago, both companies produced little crude from fracking and might have even have benefited from a ban if it led to higher oil prices. But now fracking is the fastest-growing part of their global businesses and a key profit driver.Hydraulic fracturing of shale rock is pushing U.S. oil production to record highs, touching 12.4 million barrels a day in August. Exxon said Friday its output from the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico had boomed by more than 70% in the third quarter from a year earlier. Chevron, a bigger Permian producer, saw its output there climb 35%.That wave of supply has ensured lower gasoline and energy prices for domestic consumers, bolstered economic growth for states such as Texas and North Dakota, and restored the country to ranks of the world’s major crude exporters.“It’s really unlocked an economic huge economic benefit for the country, as well as for the companies involved,” Jay Johnson, the boss of Chevron’s upstream business, said during the company’s earnings conference call.But fracking also has costs, particularly in terms of the climate. Cheap fossil fuels typically mean people use more of them, causing higher emissions. Hansen said that while Exxon shares concerns about climate change, “there are more effective policies” such as a revenue-neutral carbon tax and technology initiatives.To contact the reporter on this story: Kevin Crowley in Houston at kcrowley1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net, Joe CarrollFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Chasing shadows in China: Detained lawyer's wife battles on

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:14:13 -0400

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With winter approaching, Xu Yan brought some warm clothes and money for her husband to a detention centre in eastern China, though she's not even sure the arrested human rights lawyer is still being held there. Xu, 37, has travelled some 20 times from Beijing to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province in a vain struggle to get any information about Yu Wensheng after he was taken into custody last year. Xu returned again this week, joining the line at the Xuzhou City Detention Centre with other people bringing plastic bags bulging with thick duvets and sweaters for inmates.

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Distressing photos show glaciers that are disappearing or on the brink of collapse around the world

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:27:20 -0400

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The future of glaciers around the world is shaky. Here are photos showing some of the glaciers that might not be around for much longer.

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Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump 'would be a waste of time'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:58:43 -0400

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The Swedish teenage climate activist says she wouldn’t want to meet with the president even if given the opportunity.

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Brazil authorities zero in on ship suspected of oil spill

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:39:33 -0400

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After oil mysteriously washed ashore on some 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) of Brazil's coastline for two months, authorities on Friday identified a suspect: a Greek-flagged ship belonging to Delta Tankers Ltd. Brazil's government has been striving to investigate the cause of the spill that has hit 286 beaches along the northeast coast and hurt fishing and tourism. The specific source of the oil has remained unclear since it began appearing in early September.

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Aniah Blanchard's UFC Fighter Stepdad Says Missing Alabama Teen Is 'Amazing'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:12:53 -0400

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Aniah Haley Blanchard, 19, was reported missing by her family on Oct 24. The last time she was heard from was by a friend the night before, according to authorities. 

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23 ISIS wives start repatriation case in Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:13:35 -0400

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Lawyers for 23 women who joined the Islamic State group from the Netherlands asked a judge on Friday to order the Netherlands to repatriate them and their 56 young children from camps in Syria. The women and children were living in "deplorable conditions" in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, lawyer Andre Seebregts said in court.

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UAW union president takes leave of absence under cloud of U.S. federal probe

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:31:31 -0400

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The president of the United Auto Workers union, who has been linked https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-corruption-labor/federal-corruption-probe-hits-home-for-uaw-boss-contract-talks-under-storm-cloud-idUSKCN1VI229 to an ongoing corruption probe by U.S. federal officials, has taken a leave of absence, the union said on Saturday in a statement. Gary Jones' leave of absence, which follows a vote by the executive board, will be effective beginning Sunday, the UAW said. "The UAW is fighting tooth and nail to ensure our members have a brighter future.

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Iran, Please Don't Develop a Stealth Fighter

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:01:00 -0400

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It might be nice to have one, but it'll bring nothing but trouble.

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Bad news for Boeing: Company says more 737 NGs found to have wing cracks

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:36:32 -0400

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The FAA ordered the inspections in 737 NG's that have flown many thousands of flghts

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US military calls on Kurdish forces in northeast Syria

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:42:13 -0400

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US military vehicles Saturday entered a Kurdish-held area in northeastern Syria and met with officials, AFP correspondents and a local source said, in the second such visit since an announced US pullout from the Turkish border area. Beige-coloured armoured vehicles flying the American flag pulled up at the headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces outside the city of Qamishli. A US-led coalition has for years backed the SDF in fighting the Islamic State group, but the announcement of an American withdrawal triggered a deadly Turkish invasion against the Kurds on October 9.

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British teenager was suffering from PTSD when she withdrew Cyprus gang rape claim, court hears

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:26:49 -0400

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A British teenager accused of lying about being gang raped in Cyprus may have retracted her claims because she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, her lawyer said at a hearing on Friday. The woman, 19, is charged with public mischief for allegedly inventing the attack at an Ayia Napa hotel on July 17. She maintains she was raped by up to a dozen Israeli tourists, but pressured by Cypriot police to make a retraction statement 10 days later. Prosecutors say the teenager willingly wrote and signed the document. On Friday, chartered consultant psychologist Dr Christine Tizzard gave evidence by videolink from Portsmouth Crown Court. Speaking after the hearing in Larnaca, lawyer Michael Polak, director of the group Justice Abroad - which is assisting the teenager - said she was diagnosed as having underlying PTSD, which was reignited by the alleged attack. Lawyer Michael Polak of Justice Abroad is supporting the teengaer Credit: KATIA CHRISTODOULOU/EPA-EFE/REX "We were pleased with the evidence from Dr Tizzard, which confirms what we have been saying," he said. "She explained in simple words to the court the ways in which PTSD affects someone who is put in a difficult situation... Their fight or flight reflex would kick in and they would do anything to get out of that situation... "We look forward to the rest of the evidence, which we say supports the teenager's case that she was put under enormous pressure to sign the retraction statement." The case was adjourned following the psychologist's evidence and a date for forensic linguist Dr Andrea Nini to give evidence is expected to be set on Monday. He is expected to say it was "highly unlikely" that the retraction statement was written by a native English speaker, supporting the teenager's case that it was dictated to her by a Cypriot police officer. The incident allegedly took place in the resort town of Ayia Napa Credit: Amir MAKAR / AFP Her lawyers want Judge Michalis Papathanasiou to rule the statement is inadmissible as evidence. The teenager was a week into a working holiday before she was due to start university when she alleged she was raped by the group of young Israeli men, but was then herself accused of making it up. She spent more than a month in prison before she was granted bail at the end of August, but cannot leave the island, having surrendered her passport. She could face up to a year in jail and a 1,700 euro (£1,500) fine if she is found guilty. The 12 Israelis arrested over the alleged attack returned home after they were released. The teenager's family have set up a crowdfunding page asking for money for legal costs, which has raised more than £40,000.

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For the Best Three-Row Mid-Size Crossovers and SUVs, See These Full Rankings!

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:21:00 -0400

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To Shake Up Trump, Kim Jong Un Gets All Mystical—Then Launches Missiles

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:09:53 -0400

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Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/Korean Central News Agency/APFrom sacred Mount Paektu, the Korean peninsula’s highest peak on the North’s border with China, to the 10,000 spire-like pinnacles of Mount Kumgang just above the line with South Korea, Kim Jong Un has cast himself of late as the bold, fearless, iconic leader literally daring to ascend the highest peaks in pursuit of power over the divided country.There’s nothing remotely subtle about the campaign that has pictured him on a white stallion riding through the early snows of another frigid winter on Mt. Paektu or striding up the slopes of Kumgang.It’s all about projecting the image of a hero in a campaign of intimidation aimed at both the U.S. and South Korea in a climactic drive to get President Donald Trump and the South’s President Moon Jae-in to yield at last to his demands. North Koreans Think Trump Admin Talks Are ‘Sickening.’ So Should You.And now Kim had added some very important missile tests to his message. In a sequence that clearly had been pre-scripted as the second act after those daring ascents, North Korean gunners test-fired what the North’s Academy of Defense Science proudly described as “super-large multiple rocket launchers.”Kim, having already appeared as a fit if somewhat portly outdoorsman, did not have to be standing by to press the button. While that image of the brave warrior dominated the state media, the academy reported “the perfection of the continuous fire system” as “verified through the test-fire to totally destroy with super-power the group target of the enemy and designated target area by surprise strike of the weapon system of super-large multiple rocket launchers.”The ferocity of the test, at least as claimed, carried one especially disturbing message. That kind of firepower isn’t for use against American or Japanese soil, but could devastate America’s largest overseas base at Camp Humphreys, 40 miles south of Seoul, 60 miles below the Demilitarized Zone between the two Koreas.The base, no doubt shielded by all manner of sensors, missiles and other wizardry, has got to be a sitting duck for the North’s increasingly advanced weaponry. Most of America’s 28,500 troops in Korea, plus families and civilian employees, are now there after the closure of U.S. bases below the DMZ and withdrawal of the central headquarters for U.S. Forces Korea from the historic Yongsan base in Seoul. Nearby Osan Air Base is headquarters for the Seventh Air Force, also an easy target.“Megabase in Korea’s Danger Zone,” is the cover story in this week’s Army Times magazine. The North Koreans “said they’ve been developing these weapons to be able to strike a ‘fat target,’” David Maxwell, senior fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies, who spent years in Korea as an army officer, is quoted as saying. “We assume that the ‘fat target’ is Camp Humphreys as well as Osan Air Base.”Even as U.S. forces were moving into Humphreys, writes Kyle Rempfer, “North Korea has developed large caliber rockets and ballistic missiles as well as a nuclear capability” within range of the expanded 3,500-acre base. “North Korea’s 300-millimeter multiple rocket launchers and new KN-23 short-range ballistic missiles both have an advertised capability to reach Camp Humphreys.”Not-to-worry is, nonetheless, the soothing message from Moon and his aides. Echoing Trump’s earlier expressions of non-concern about the North’s short-range missile tests, South Korea’s national security adviser, Chung Eui-yong, said the latest shots, the 12th this year but the first in a month, were not “very grave threats.” In fact, he argued, “our missile defense and intercept capabilities” are “absolutely superior.”With two months to go before the end-of-year “deadline” set by the North for the U.S. to propose a new deal, however, the testing assumes seriously intimidating overtones. At the top of the North’s demands are an end to sanctions and a “peace declaration”– but no real end to its nuclear program, long since sanctified in the North’s constitution.As for Moon, Kim has come up with a bargaining tool that demonstrates the futility of any deal with North Korea. He’s demanding South Korea demolish or remove an entire tourist resort at the foot of Mount Kumgang, aka Diamond Mountain, heaping scorn on what was once the most visible showcase for promoting North-South rapprochement.North Korea’s state media is dressing up the demand with images of Kim, sporty in a white shirt tailored to fit his contours, appearing to conquer Kumgang on foot just as he rode up the slopes of Paektu on a white horse. Whether he got to the top of Paektu on the horse as claimed, the imagery from Kumgang leaves no doubt he trudged only far enough for a photo-op that provided the setting for his message to Moon.Packing 290 pounds on his rotund five-foot seven-inch frame, Kim was not at all fit for the hike. Missing are photographs showing him at the majestic Kuryong waterfall, which tumbles 84 meters down granite cliffs. Only four kilometers up the trail, it’s the destination for just about everyone else who’s been there.Also further up the trail, a special wooden bench, lovingly painted and repainted a sparkling dark blue, is said to be exactly where Kim Il Sung sat to gaze on Mount Kumgang, some of whose many pinnacles are often lost in the clouds far above. A low-lying chain link fence keeps disrespectful tourists from sitting where the late “Great Leader” once sat. No doubt Kim Jong Un would love to plant his ample posterior on granddad’s bench, but he got nowhere near it.Rather than at the falls or on the bench, Kim is seen with imagery selected and edited to give an impression of an indomitable figure conquering the mountain. Shots show him with a stout walking stick standing on a footbridge, smiling with aides in a clearing, edging by large boulders, his coyly smiling wife, Ri Sol Ju, close behind. Viewers don’t need to know all these photos were staged where the trail begins.The scenic setting provides the backdrop for a shocking message to South Korea—and the U.S, too. In a devastating setback to South Korea’s efforts at reconciliation, Kim declared the facilities built by South Korea’s largest construction firm, Hyundai Engineering and Construction, were “ugly” and “unpleasant” to look at. North Korea has demanded South Korea set a date in writing for removal or demolition of all of them, including 10 hotels, sports and entertainment facilities, a duty-free shopping center and dozens of individual structures to accommodate tour groups.Kim’s denunciation of the facilities at Kumgang, which also include an 18-hole golf course and a hot springs spa, is a calculated rebuff to President Moon, who still fantasizes about reopening the resort to South Koreans. Seoul has barred them from going there ever since a South Korean woman was shot and killed by a North Korean soldier in July 2008 while wandering outside the tourist area to gaze at the sunrise. Another problem is how to get around sanctions blocking commercial transactions with the North.It was as though Kim wanted to portray himself as a daring sportsman, a larger-than-life character afraid of nothing before getting down to the serious business of dissing the South as punishment for Moon’s failure to stand up to U.S demands for the North to give up its nuclear program.As for the U.S., Kim’s heroics provided the window-dressing for a series of intimidating messages for his friend President Trump. After the North’s state media put out photos showing Kim as a virile figure fit to climb any mountain, subordinates came out almost daily with threats against the U.S. for dithering on a deal.“The Korean peninsula is at a critical crossroads,” said the country’s second ranking leader, Choe Ryong-hae, at a confab of the so-called non-aligned movement in Azerbaijan. The choice was “either moving towards durable peace along with the trend of detente, or facing again a touch-and-go crisis.”That warning came after another top leader, Kim Yong Chol, resurgent after having been reported in May to have been executed for the failure of the Trump-Kim summit in Hanoi, said Trump had better not count on his friendship with Kim to keep the North from testing nukes and missiles."The U.S. is seriously mistaken if it has the idea of exploiting the close personal relations” between Trump and Kim, said Kim Yong Chol, vice chairman of the Workers’ Party Central Committee, in a statement carried by Pyongyang’s official news agency. The U.S., he said, is now “more desperately resorting to the hostile policy” toward North Korea. Those stern words, coming right after Kim’s shows on Kumgang and Paektu, left the South Koreans with no convincing response.South Korea’s unification ministry called for “creative solutions” to the entire problem of dismantling the resort complex and keeping Kim happy. North Korea turned a cold shoulder to the South’s suggestions for “individual” tours that might avoid sanctions.Kim’s current observations from the bottom of Kumgang were meant to show how South Koreans desecrated this scenic wonderland when they opened it to tourism in deals made by South Korea’s Kim Dae-jung, the country’s president from 1998 to 2003.“Mt. Kumgang is our land of blood,” Kim Jong Un is quoted as saying. “We have our own sovereignty and dignity on the cliffs and trees.” Those hideous South-made structures, he said, were “severely damaging the landscape” and “neglecting the management of cultural tourism.”While Trump Shrugs, North Korea’s Building Better MissilesRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:59:41 -0400

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Immigrant rights groups called Friday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end policies they say ease the transfer of prison inmates to federal authorities despite California's efforts to provide a sanctuary to those who are in the country illegally. The groups asked Newsom to stop prison officials from holding parolees until they can be picked up by federal immigration officials. California passed a law in 2017 barring local and state agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities over those who have committed certain crimes, mostly misdemeanors, but critics said it doesn't apply to the state prison system.

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Andrew Yang's campaign has gone 'mainstream'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:09:00 -0400

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While some Democratic presidential candidates are cutting back on their campaigns, entrepreneur Andrew Yang is going all in, Politico reports.Yang, who as recently as April had fewer than 20 staff members on his campaign's payroll, now has 73 people running the show. "It's been like a startup but this startup has gone mainstream, about to go public, if you want to keep using the analogy," said Zach Graumann, Yang's campaign manager. "And frankly and I tell the team, 'we're just getting started.'"There's some big names now involved with the campaign, as well, lending more credence to Graumann's words. Devine, Mulvey, and Longabaugh -- a media consulting firm which worked for the 2016 campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) but opted not to join forces again for 2020 over "differences in a creative vision" -- has shifted its services to the Yang campaign because he's "offering the most progressive ideas" among the Democratic candidates. They also don't think he's a flash in the pan."We wouldn't have signed on with somebody we didn't think was a serious candidate," Mark Longabaugh said. "Yang has a good deal of momentum and there's a great deal of grassroots enthusiasm for his candidacy and that's what's driven it this far." Yang still faces numerous hurdles to really get back in the running, but the campaign surely thinks it's possible. Read more at Politico.

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Brazil police arrest man said to be one of world's most prolific human traffickers

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:22:27 -0400

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Brazilian federal police said they have arrested Saifullah Al-Mamun, born in Bangladesh and considered by authorities one of the world's most prolific human traffickers. In an operation conducted on Thursday after collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Brazilian police arrested members of a group allegedly implicated in a large scheme of smuggling people into the United States. Several arrests were made in Sao Paulo, where Al-Mamun was living, and in three other Brazilian cities.

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China Thinks a Nuclear Submarine Can Sink Half of An Aircraft Carrier Battle Group

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:00:00 -0400

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Beijing is trying to find out how to sink U.S. aircraft carriers. France might know how to stop them.

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Southwest Airlines flight attendant tells why she sued: 'This was not a joke'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 21:06:29 -0400

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Renee Steinaker of Scottsdale, a 21-year veteran flight attendant with Southwest Airlines, speaks out about her lawsuit over a bathroom video.

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Threat or chance? Israel eyes Lebanon protests closely

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:39:39 -0400

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Looking down on Lebanon from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, soldiers wonder whether the political turmoil in the neighbouring country will weaken arch-enemy Hezbollah or make it more dangerous. "There, Hezbollah is very, very strong," said Samuel Boujenah of the Israeli military, gazing at a valley where calm was recently shattered by clashes with the Iran-backed Shiite group.

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For Vietnam's 'Box People,' a Treacherous Journey

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:20:33 -0400

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LONDON -- Vietnamese smugglers call it the "CO2" route: a poorly ventilated, oxygen-deficient trip across the English Channel in shipping containers or trailers piled high with pallets of merchandise, the last leg of a perilous, 6,000-mile trek across Asia and into Western Europe.Compared to the other path -- the "VIP route," with its brief hotel stay and seat in a truck driver's cab -- the trip in a stuffy container can be brutal for what some Vietnamese refer to as "box people," successors to the "boat people" who left after the Vietnam War ended in 1975.Vietnamese migrants often wait for months in roadside camps in northern France before being sneaked into a truck trailer. Snakeheads, as the smugglers are known, beat men and sexually assault women, aid groups, lawyers and the migrants themselves say. People cocoon themselves in aluminum bags and endure hours in refrigerated units to reduce the risk of detection.That journey proved fatal last week for 39 people, many of them believed to be Vietnamese, who were found dead in a refrigerated truck container in southeastern England.As dangerous as the last leg of the migrant journey to Britain often is, those petrifying hours in a trailer are sometimes only a sliver of months if not years of harsh treatment -- first at the hands of organized trafficking gangs, and then under imperious bosses at nail salons and cannabis factories in Britain.But still they come, an estimated 18,000 Vietnamese paying smugglers for the journey to Europe every year at prices between 8,000 and 40,000 pounds, around $10,000 to $50,000.In Britain, where Brexit has discouraged the flow of labor from Eastern Europe, migrants see a country thirsty for low-wage workers, paying easily five times what they could earn at home and free of the onerous identity checks that make other European countries inhospitable.Vietnamese smugglers, for the most part, get their clients across to France and the Netherlands, where other gangs, often Kurdish and Albanian, or, as in the recent case, apparently Irish or Northern Irish, finish the job.Many come from Ha Tinh and Nghe An, two impoverished provinces in north-central Vietnam, and leave for Britain with their eyes wide open to the risks, analysts say. Having watched their neighbors suddenly refurbish their homes with pricier materials, or buy better cars, they crave the same sense of security for their family, whatever it might cost them.But when Britain fails to deliver on that promise, migrants can end up in a dreadful limbo, kept from seeking help by the country's harsh immigration system and living in the grip of a shadowy system of traffickers and the employers who rely on them."I always encourage them, 'Stay at home,'" the Rev. Simon Thang Duc Nguyen, the parish priest at a Catholic church in East London attended by many migrant parishioners, said this week. "Even though you are poor, you have your life. Here, you have money, but you lose your life."Not all the 20,000 to 35,000 undocumented Vietnamese migrants estimated to be living in Britain have horror stories to tell. Many migrants, some experts say, put up with the travails of working in Britain for the real chance of a payday."My research has shown stories of migrants are not all about exploitation and not all about being trafficked," said Tamsin Barber, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. "People are usually coming here agreeing to take high risks to work illegally and potentially earn large amounts of money in the cannabis trade."But more vulnerable Vietnamese are also being trafficked to Britain, with the authorities receiving five times as many referrals last year as in 2012.Once family and friends have scraped together enough money, the odyssey may begin with a trip to China to pick up forged travel documents. That is how many of the dozens of people who died in the truck began their journey, said Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest serving a church in the town of Yen Thanh, where he said dozens of the victims were from.On the way from China to Russia to Western Europe, one of the most punishing stretches is the walk through Belarusian forests to the Polish border. In a 2017 French survey of Vietnamese migrants, a man identified as Anh, 24, told researchers that he and five other men, led by a smuggler, were repeatedly arrested in Belarus, only to be released at the Russian border to try again. When they finally succeeded, they were met by a truck waiting on the Polish side."We were cold," the survey quoted him as saying. "We didn't eat anything for two days. We drank water from melted snow."Other routes, choreographed down to the minute, land migrants in European airports with recycled visas and travel documents, according to "Precarious Journeys," a recent report from ECPAT, an anti-child-trafficking organization, and other groups. As a precaution, smugglers in Vietnam often tell people to arrive at airport check-in desks 10 minutes before they close, for instance, so agents do not have enough time to inspect paperwork.The trip can take months, even years. Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, one of the migrants believed to have died last week, wanted to go to France to find work and support his siblings, seven of them in all, his father, Nguyen Dinh Gia, said. But in Russia, he overstayed his tourist visa and was confined to his house for six months. Then he moved to Ukraine and France, where he found a job as a waiter, before deciding to go to Britain for work in a nail salon.Trips are frequently interrupted when migrants are detained or run out of money. Some migrants are forced to work along the way, in garment factories in Russia or in restaurants across Europe. Some women sell sex, researchers say.Smugglers often keep people in the dark about where they are as a way of exerting total control. In a 2017 case, 16 Vietnamese people picked up by the Ukrainian authorities in Odessa thought they were in France.When migrants disobey their smugglers, the blowback can be fierce."They cannot be discovered by the police, so they have to keep the discipline," said Nguyen, the priest in London. "If you do not behave, you can be punished by beatings, or for women be abused sexually."And once they arrive in Britain, they are often in for a rude awakening. Sulaiha Ali, a human rights lawyer, said migrants were sometimes promised legitimate work in a restaurant or on a construction site, only to be forced to work as "gardeners" in a house converted into illegal cannabis growing operations. Locked inside the house for days at a time and often living 15 to a room, workers face the risk of fire from tampered electrical wiring and health problems from noxious chemicals.In the nail salons where many Vietnamese find work, salon bosses can control every aspect of workers' lives, a power that can breed exploitation, though researchers said some bosses also become migrants' surrogate parents, cooking for them and providing a place to stay.When the police raid places housing migrants, they can often ignore signs of forced work or human trafficking and send migrants into deportation proceedings instead, migrant advocates say. "The emphasis, as soon as it's established someone doesn't have any identification documents, is not trying to establish whether they've been exploited," Ali said. "It's on, 'Can we justify detention? Can we get them removed back to their countries?'"That threat of deportation, whatever someone's circumstances, is a cudgel for trafficking gangs to keep migrants under their sway."There's a serious distrust of authorities, a lot of the time because traffickers have embedded that in victims' minds: 'You don't have official documents,' or, 'You're going to be deported or imprisoned,'" said Firoza Saiyed, a human rights lawyer. "It's another thing that makes disclosure really difficult."Older Vietnamese migrants in Britain, many of whom arrived after the Vietnam War, are separated by a wide cultural gulf from the newer arrivals, but they have still proved to be a crucial support, ever more so in the last week.Nguyen, who left Vietnam in 1984, said he had been fielding calls from families in Vietnam, wanting to know if he could tell them whether their children were in the trailer."The mother, the father, all called me in tears," he said. "I couldn't bear hearing the words. You have to borrow a lot of money for this journey, and now you had hoped your daughter, your son can be successful, and that you can have some money to pay the debt. Now, it's hopeless -- nothing."He went on, "Nothing is OK, as long as they are arrested or in prison. It's OK, they survived. But now they lost two things. They lost hope and they lost their lives. Nothing."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company

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Readers write: A gun owner’s experience with the NRA, and more

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:00:04 -0400

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Assault rifles, bump stocks, the Second Amendment, and more: Readers discuss their opinions on the NRA and the state of gun ownership in America.

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Trump says he knows all about the new Isis leader - but experts insist 'The Scholar' remains a mystery

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:21:49 -0400

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Days after Isis leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces at a compound in Syria, Donald Trump tweeted that “we know exactly” who the replacement is as head of the terrorist group.Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been named as Baghdadi’s successor in an audio message released by the group on Thursday.

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New execution date set for Georgia inmate

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:04:08 -0400

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Georgia officials set a new execution date Friday for a death row inmate two days after he was granted a temporary reprieve because of a legal technicality. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson. Georgia Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward set the execution for the first date of a seven-day window ordered Friday by a Superior Court judge in Thomas County.

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Iraq’s Top Cleric Warns Iran to Stay Out

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:00:02 -0400

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- To understand what Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is saying, you have to translate him twice: first from Arabic to English, then from politesse to plain-speak. In the first translation, a key passage from his Friday sermon in the holy city of Karbala went like this: “No person or group, no side with a particular view, no regional or international actor may seize the will of the Iraqi people and impose its will on them.”The second translation: “Back off, Khamenei!”That is how it would have sounded to Sistani’s audience in Karbala, where it was read out for the ailing octogenarian by an aide; in the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where a bloody crackdown on largely peaceful protesters has taken more than 200 lives; in the Iraqi parliament, where lawmakers are negotiating a response to the demonstrations; and in Tehran, where Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been struggling to respond to the rising anti-Iran sentiment that undergirds uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon.Khamenei has unleashed Iran’s proxies in the streets — Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Shiite militias in Iraq — to intimidate the protesters. He has also dispatched his chief enforcer, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Qassem Soleimani, to the Iraqi parliament, to rally Shiite parties behind the feckless Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi.But if anything, these responses will only fan the anger in the streets against Iranian interference in Iraqi and Lebanese politics. Not even Khamenei, who is practiced in the art of ignoring popular resentment, can have failed to notice the anti-Iran slogans echoing through Iraqi cities. Nor will it have escaped his attention that the loudest chanting comes from Iraqi Shiites, a community he expects to favor his Islamic Republic.  The Supreme Leader’s anxiety was palpable in his tweets on Thursday, when he tried to blame Tehran’s usual suspects — “the U.S., the Zionist regime, some Western countries, and the money of some reactionary countries” — for the protests.Sistani’s sermon was a riposte, designed to set Khamenei right. Although born in Iran, he is no fan of Khamenei and other hardliners in Tehran, preferring the likes of President Hassan Rouhani.Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah has been in a quandary over the protests. Every Iraqi government since 2005 has had his personal imprimatur: His word has united factions among the Shiite majority. Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi, too, has his blessing. As such, Sistani is complicit in the corruption and ineptitude that have brought the Iraqis into the streets.His early pronouncements on the protests vacillated between bromides against corruption and calls on the protesters to abjure violence. But as the demonstrations have persisted, Sistani has grown progressively more critical of the government, blaming it for the violence.His Friday sermon puts him squarely on the protesters’ side. In addition to interfering Iranians, the leaders who have long benefited from his validation came under attack. As the politicians in Baghdad struggle to devise a response that will satisfy angry Iraqis, the so-called sage of Najaf warned that Iraqis have a right to a “referendum on the constitution” to change how they are governed. By invoking the prospect of a referendum, Sistani may have given the protesters a new focus for their energies, and Iraqi politicians a way to break the toxic pattern of inconclusive elections and compromise prime ministers. Much will depend on the reaction of another cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, who has also taken the protesters’ side — even joining them in the streets — and has called for Abdul-Mahdi’s removal.Sadr, frequently described as a firebrand, has little in common with the preternaturally placid Sistani. But the prospect of the protests being led by one and backed by the other is certain to rattle turbaned heads in Tehran. And if Sistani and Sadr were to throw their combined weight behind demands for a referendum — and who knows, maybe even inspire emulation by the Lebanese — that might be the stuff of Khamenei’s nightmares.To contact the author of this story: Bobby Ghosh at aghosh73@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: James Gibney at jgibney5@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Bobby Ghosh is a columnist and member of the Bloomberg Opinion editorial board. He writes on foreign affairs, with a special focus on the Middle East and the wider Islamic world.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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UPDATE 1-El Salvador expels Venezuelan diplomats from the country

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 01:01:06 -0500

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El Salvador said on Saturday it had ordered Venezuela's diplomats to leave the Central American country within 48 hours, arguing that the decision was in line with its position that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate. In a statement, the government said President Nayib Bukele recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president until free elections were held in the South American country.

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Trump's Naval Dream Seems Sunk: America Can't Afford a 355 Ship Navy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:30:00 -0400

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Like a Christmas wish list, the Navy wants a fleet of 355 ships. It just can’t afford it.

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Jury finds Chicago gang member guilty in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:20:49 -0400

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A jury found gang member Drwight Boone-Doty guilty Thursday in the murder of Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed.

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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after deadly US shooting

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:52:21 -0400

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Airbnb's boss announced Saturday that the online platform, which offers private homes for rent for short periods, is banning "party houses" after a deadly shooting at a Halloween event in California. Five people were killed and others wounded in a Thursday night shooting in Orinda, California, in a house that had been rented on Airbnb. "Starting today, we are banning 'party houses' and we are redoubling our efforts to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct, including conduct that leads to the terrible events we saw in Orinda," Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said on Twitter.

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House Intel Chair Schiff says impeachment transcripts could come next week

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:52:44 -0400

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Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that the panels investigating impeachment could begin releasing transcripts of closed-door witness depositions early next week, part of an effort to move the investigation into public view and allow Americans to evaluate the evidence against President Trump.

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The Most Cringe-Worthy 90s Internet Guides That We Can't Stop Watching

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0400

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Experts on Trump's conduct: 'Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:00:11 -0400

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Republicans may argue Trump’s actions were not impeachable – but scholars say it’s a solid example of a high crimeDonald Trump at the White House in Washington DC this week. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAWas what he did really so bad? And even if it was bad – was it truly impeachable?As Democrats hit the gas on impeachment this week, Donald Trump exhorted Republicans to defend him on the substance of his actions in the Ukraine scandal, instead of sniping about the process.“Rupublicans [sic],” Trump tweeted “go with Substance and close it out!”Trump’s misconduct, critics say, includes using the power of the presidency to solicit foreign intervention in the 2020 US election, by trying to force Ukraine to help conduct a political hit on Joe Biden.Trump denies all wrongdoing and most of his defenders do too. But there is a (slightly) subtler version of Trump defense that Republicans are trying out which says that while Trump’s conduct has not been irreproachable, neither has it been impeachable.The argument, according to constitutional experts and historians of impeachment, is not a strong one. In fact, Trump’s conduct, according to analysts interviewed by the Guardian, hews more closely than any previous conduct by any other president to what scholars conceive as a concrete example of impeachable behavior.Frank O Bowman III, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump and a professor at the University of Missouri school of law, said that Trump’s having extorted actions with no legitimate US national purpose from a foreign country that is “literally at risk of losing its political and territorial independence” without US support was impeachable.“It’s plainly an abuse of power, and it’s plainly impeachable,” Bowman said.“I think these are quite clearly, precisely the type of high crimes and misdemeanors that the founders not only feared but actually discussed at the constitutional convention,” said Jeffrey A Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History and director of the center for presidential history at Southern Methodist University.“The high crime is the trade – give me dirt on Joe Biden and his son, and I’ll give you in return military aid and help with your economy – I think that is certainly impeachable,” said Corey Brettschneider, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents and a professor of constitutional law at Brown University. Many are finding defending Trump difficult at the moment. Republican lawmakers spent Thursday fleeing reporters trying to ask the question, “Do you think it’s OK for the president to pressure foreign governments to interfere in our elections?”. One lawmaker even headbutted a camera rather than reply.The reason Trump’s alleged conduct is plainly impeachable, historians say, has to do with US impeachment precedent and with what the authors of the US constitution meant when they provisioned impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors”.“If we look at history both British and American – and it’s important to look at British history, because our Framers were of course rebel Englishmen and they adopted the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ in full recognition of the fact that that was a parliamentary term of art, and that therefore they were adopting to some degree, by reference, previous usages of that term – all of that leads to really the inescapable conclusion that one of the grounds for impeachment has always been abuse of power,” said Bowman.While Trump and his defenders reject the allegation that he has any divided loyalties, critics have pointed out that his actions in office, including his withholding of military aid from Ukraine, have advanced Russian interests – and his own personal interests, when it comes to soliciting election assistance.The founders drafted the impeachment clause specifically with problematic foreign loyalties in mind, Engel said.“Having just gone through the process of a divisive revolution, where it was literally neighbor against neighbor and sometimes even brother against brother split over loyalty,” Engel said, “there was a great deal of concern about just simply making sure that the people who were in charge generally had America’s best interests at heart. Because people had so many friends over the course of their lives that did not – or at least that chose France or that chose Britain.”In an Oval Office interview on Thursday, Trump compared his conduct favorably with the last two presidents to face impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.“Everybody knows I did nothing wrong,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “Bill Clinton did things wrong; Richard Nixon did things wrong. I won’t go back to [Andrew] Johnson because that was a little before my time. But they did things wrong. I did nothing wrong.”Trump’s analysis of his own behavior does not stand up to scrutiny, scholars said.“Obviously the degree of severity is almost immeasurably different,” said Bowman. “With respect to Clinton, yes you had a violation of law, in the sense of his having committed perjury, but he committed perjury in order to conceal a private, consensual sexual affair. Now that’s discreditable, it’s also criminal – he got disbarred as a result of doing it.“But in terms of the interests of the nation, not even remotely comparable.“In this case, Trump is literally holding the independence of another country hostage to his own political interests. Not only is that contemptible, and in many ways more contemptible than what Nixon did, but I think it’s also true, and we’ve heard a lot of testimony about this over the past couple of weeks, that what he was doing is endangering an American policy objective, the whole framework of containment of Russian expansionism, the bedrock of our policy in eastern Europe for the last 70 years.“It’s far worse, in that regard, I think, than what Nixon did.”Engel said the “Nixon case is very instructive” in judging the integrity of Trump’s defensive wall in the Republican members of Congress.“The Republicans by and large backed Nixon right up until the moment they didn’t,” Engel said. “Which is to say, when new information came out, in his case specifically the smoking gun tape, that nobody in good conscience could refute, his support eroded literally overnight.“And I think we will see potentially a similar dynamic, at least that dynamic is set up, that there’s no particular reason at this moment that Republicans feel a need to break with their party.“But history suggests that they may at some point open the newspaper and realize they have no choice but to switch sides.”

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Oklahoma parole board OKs largest-ever US mass commutation

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:15:10 -0400

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Oklahoma will release more than 400 inmates after a state panel on Friday approved what officials say is the largest single-day mass commutation in U.S. history. The Oklahoma Pardon and Parole Board unanimously approved the commutations, and Gov. Kevin Stitt said his office would process the recommendations for final approval. The board considered 814 cases and recommended 527 inmates for commutation.

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Iran unveils new anti-US murals at former embassy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:58:09 -0400

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Iran on Saturday unveiled new anti-American murals on the walls of the former US embassy as Tehran prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the storming of what it labels the "den of spies". The new murals -- mainly painted in white, red and blue, the colours of the US flag -- were unveiled by Major General Hossein Salami, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, at the former mission turned museum. A third showed the American Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran in June over the Strait of Hormuz, with bats flying out of it.

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Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines

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Court ruling could throw impeachment timeline into disarray

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 17:22:05 -0400

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Even as House Democrats on Thursday ratified an impeachment resolution against President Trump, a federal judge has potentially slowed the brisk pace of the inquiry by declining to rule on whether a key witness needed to testify before the House of Representatives.

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2020 Vision: If a single speech can shake up the Democratic race, it might happen in Iowa

Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:07:03 -0400

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Ex-officer gets 12 years in naked man's fatal shooting

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:04:14 -0400

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A former Georgia police officer convicted of aggravated assault and other crimes in the fatal shooting of an unarmed, naked man was sentenced Friday to 12 years in prison. Robert "Chip" Olsen was responding to a call of a naked man behaving erratically at an Atlanta-area apartment complex in March 2015 when he killed 26-year-old Anthony Hill, a black Air Force veteran who'd been diagnosed with bipolar disorder and PTSD. Olsen, who is white, was convicted of one count of aggravated assault, two counts of violating his oath of office and one count of making a false statement.

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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:10:06 -0400

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October was the first full month in at least 18 years in which the United States did not admit any refugees.

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California wildfires: Climate change driving ‘horror and the terror’ of devastating blazes, say scientists

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:52:49 -0400

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The words from California’s former governor could barely have been more stark.“I said it was the new normal a few years ago,’’ said Jerry Brown. “This is serious, but this is only the beginning. This is only a taste of the horror and the terror that will occur in decades.”

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Vietnam arrests two in UK truck death investigation

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:31:35 -0400

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Vietnam police have arrested two people for trafficking in connection with the death of 39 migrants whose bodies were found in a truck in Britain, many of them feared to be Vietnamese. The move comes after British police arrested four people over the tragedy and are now seeking to question two brothers from Northern Ireland who have links to the road-haulage and shipping business. The victims were initially identified by British police as Chinese, but many are now believed to be Vietnamese after families in central Vietnam said their loved ones had not been heard from.

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Maria Fire broke out minutes after utility company re-energized high-voltage power line

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Southern California Edison says it turned power back on minutes before the Maria Fire erupted nearby in Ventura County

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Finally, some good news for California: Infamous Diablo and Santa Ana winds will die down soon

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:54:01 -0400

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Santa Ana and Diablo winds, the pattern responsible for frequent and strong wind events in California, are forecast to end soon.

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Hollow building becomes center of Iraq's uprising

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Guard linked to beating had been subject of complaints

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:49:59 -0400

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A guard accused in a lawsuit of beating a female inmate so severely she was left paralyzed had previously been accused of trading cigarettes for sex, insubordination, harassing inmates and other actions at a Florida prison, according to a news report. Despite the long history of accusations, the Lowell Correctional Institution in Ocala never fired Keith Turner and he had been promoted to lieutenant a few years ago, The Miami Herald reported . Cheryl Weimar said in a lawsuit that she was nearly beaten to death by four guards in August at the prison.

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Who Wore It Better? 10 Names Shared by Automakers

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Toll in Philippine quakes climbs to 21

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The death toll in two powerful quakes that struck the southern Philippines in the past week has risen to 21, authorities said Sunday, as survivors struggled to access food and water. The 6.6-magnitude and 6.5-magnitude quakes hit the island of Mindanao two days apart, destroying buildings and displacing tens of thousands of residents. The quakes also left 432 residents injured with two people still missing, it added.

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Hezbollah TV channel says Twitter accounts suspended

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:59:46 -0400

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The television station of Lebanon's powerful Shiite movement Hezbollah protested Saturday that most of its Twitter accounts had been suspended. Al-Manar accused the US-based social media platform of giving in to "political pressures". "There is no place on Twitter for illegal terrorist organisations and violent extremist groups," a Twitter spokesperson told AFP.

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A Louisiana woman has been arrested for selling $20 fake doctor's notes to students trying to skip class

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 09:55:04 -0400

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The woman's master plan unraveled once the physician whose name was being used to sign off on the notes received complaints from the school board.

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Have Kentuckians finally had enough of Mitch McConnell?

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:40:54 -0400

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A recent poll shows that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the president’s most stolid defender, is down to an 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky. Only 37 percent in a recent Public Policy Poll said they would vote for him again next year.

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Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:10:06 -0400

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October was the first full month in at least 18 years in which the United States did not admit any refugees.

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Louisiana man gets probation in whooping crane death

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A Louisiana man was sentenced to probation Friday for killing one of the state's oldest whooping cranes . Gilvin P. Aucoin Jr., of Ville Platte, shot the endangered whooping crane in July 2018 in Evangeline Parish. In a hearing before U.S. Magistrate Judge Carol B. Whitehurst, Aucoin changed his plea to guilty for a misdemeanor violation of the International Migratory Bird Treaty Act.

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Iran, Please Don't Develop a Stealth Fighter

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:01:00 -0400

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It might be nice to have one, but it'll bring nothing but trouble.

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Ken Cuccinelli Calls Debbie Wasserman Schultz a Witch: She ‘Got on Her Broom and Left’

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This time, Southern California was prepared for wildfires. Here's how countless homes were saved

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:47:36 -0400

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The winds roared again but Los Angeles and other Southern California cities were prepared as firefighters saved thousands of homes.

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Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump 'would be a waste of time'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:58:43 -0400

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The Swedish teenage climate activist says she wouldn’t want to meet with the president even if given the opportunity.

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Teachers strike taught Chicago's new mayor tough lessons -analysts

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made strategic errors in the first major fight of her tenure, an 11-day teachers' strike, but may have learned lessons that will prove useful as she confronts immense city budget challenges, political observers said. Lightfoot, 57, was elected in convincing fashion to become Chicago's first black woman mayor in April, when she vaulted to victory on promises to dismantle the city's corrupt political machine and reform the city's school district.

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Saudi Aramco: from 'Prosperity Well' to energy behemoth

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 04:45:44 -0500

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From its beginnings in 1938 when it first struck oil with the aptly named "Prosperity Well", Saudi Arabia's energy giant Aramco has delivered unimaginable riches to the desert kingdom. Aramco's plans to list on the Saudi stock exchange, in what could be the world's largest IPO, represents a "historic moment" in the firm's evolution, its chairman Yasir al-Rumayyan said Sunday. "Aramco will be a source of greater national pride and admiration.

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Maria Fire broke out minutes after utility company re-energized high-voltage power line

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:51:27 -0400

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Southern California Edison says it turned power back on minutes before the Maria Fire erupted nearby in Ventura County

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Bill O’Reilly: 'If Joe Biden is elected president ... he has to be impeached'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:19:45 -0400

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Disgraced former Fox News host Bill O’Reilly shared his dream of what should happen if Joe Biden were to win the Democratic nomination and then defeat President Trump in 2020. + +“If Joe Biden is elected president, the day after he’s sworn in, he has to be impeached," said O'Reilly.

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Georgia ex-policeman sentenced to 12 years in prison in shooting of unarmed black man

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:44:31 -0400

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A former Georgia police officer was sentenced on Friday to 12 years in prison after his conviction in the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man outside an Atlanta apartment in March 2015. Robert "Chip" Olsen, a 57-year-old white man, was convicted last month of aggravated assault and violating his oath of office but found not guilty of murder in the killing of 26-year-old Anthony Hill. Before the sentencing, members of Hill's family urged Dekalb County Superior Court Judge LaTisha Dear Jackson to sentence Olsen to the maximum penalty of 30 years behind bars.

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New execution date set for Georgia inmate

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:04:08 -0400

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Georgia officials set a new execution date Friday for a death row inmate two days after he was granted a temporary reprieve because of a legal technicality. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson. Georgia Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward set the execution for the first date of a seven-day window ordered Friday by a Superior Court judge in Thomas County.

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California wildfires: Climate change driving ‘horror and the terror’ of devastating blazes, say scientists

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:52:49 -0400

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The words from California’s former governor could barely have been more stark.“I said it was the new normal a few years ago,’’ said Jerry Brown. “This is serious, but this is only the beginning. This is only a taste of the horror and the terror that will occur in decades.”

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Low-Yield Nuclear Weapons Won’t End the World

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Exxon, Chevron Begin Pushing Back Against Warren’s Fracking Ban

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:53:48 -0400

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(Bloomberg) -- America’s two biggest oil companies are starting to push back against the fracking ban touted by the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, which may become one of the most consequential flashpoints for energy markets during the election campaign.Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. executives spoke out publicly against the proposals for the first time on Friday, saying they would shift profits from crude production from the U.S. to other countries, and may increase prices for consumers while doing nothing to reduce oil demand or greenhouse-gas emissions.It’s a line of attack that’s likely to feature heavily in debates in the year ahead as the energy industry and Republicans seek to counter the Democratic Party’s green wing. To be sure, whoever gets elected next year will find it difficult to end fracking. Presidential powers to enact a ban only extend to federal lands, something that would be certain to face immediate legal challenges. A wider restriction would need to go through Congress.“Any efforts to ban fracking or restrict supply will not remove demand for the resource,” Neil Hansen, Exxon’s vice president of investor relations, said on a conference call with analysts. “If anything it will shift the economic benefit away from the U.S. to another country, and a potentially impact the price of that commodity here and globally.”Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two front-runners in the race to be the Democratic candidate, are keen to stop America’s reliance on fossil fuels, and they also want to end what they say is Washington’s subservience to corporate interests. They also know how to hit Exxon and Chevron where it hurts. Five years ago, both companies produced little crude from fracking and might have even have benefited from a ban if it led to higher oil prices. But now fracking is the fastest-growing part of their global businesses and a key profit driver.Hydraulic fracturing of shale rock is pushing U.S. oil production to record highs, touching 12.4 million barrels a day in August. Exxon said Friday its output from the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico had boomed by more than 70% in the third quarter from a year earlier. Chevron, a bigger Permian producer, saw its output there climb 35%.That wave of supply has ensured lower gasoline and energy prices for domestic consumers, bolstered economic growth for states such as Texas and North Dakota, and restored the country to ranks of the world’s major crude exporters.“It’s really unlocked an economic huge economic benefit for the country, as well as for the companies involved,” Jay Johnson, the boss of Chevron’s upstream business, said during the company’s earnings conference call.But fracking also has costs, particularly in terms of the climate. Cheap fossil fuels typically mean people use more of them, causing higher emissions. Hansen said that while Exxon shares concerns about climate change, “there are more effective policies” such as a revenue-neutral carbon tax and technology initiatives.To contact the reporter on this story: Kevin Crowley in Houston at kcrowley1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net, Joe CarrollFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Chasing shadows in China: Detained lawyer's wife battles on

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:14:13 -0400

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With winter approaching, Xu Yan brought some warm clothes and money for her husband to a detention centre in eastern China, though she's not even sure the arrested human rights lawyer is still being held there. Xu, 37, has travelled some 20 times from Beijing to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province in a vain struggle to get any information about Yu Wensheng after he was taken into custody last year. Xu returned again this week, joining the line at the Xuzhou City Detention Centre with other people bringing plastic bags bulging with thick duvets and sweaters for inmates.

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Distressing photos show glaciers that are disappearing or on the brink of collapse around the world

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:27:20 -0400

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The future of glaciers around the world is shaky. Here are photos showing some of the glaciers that might not be around for much longer.

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Greta Thunberg says meeting with Trump 'would be a waste of time'

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:58:43 -0400

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The Swedish teenage climate activist says she wouldn’t want to meet with the president even if given the opportunity.

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Brazil authorities zero in on ship suspected of oil spill

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:39:33 -0400

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After oil mysteriously washed ashore on some 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) of Brazil's coastline for two months, authorities on Friday identified a suspect: a Greek-flagged ship belonging to Delta Tankers Ltd. Brazil's government has been striving to investigate the cause of the spill that has hit 286 beaches along the northeast coast and hurt fishing and tourism. The specific source of the oil has remained unclear since it began appearing in early September.

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Aniah Blanchard's UFC Fighter Stepdad Says Missing Alabama Teen Is 'Amazing'

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23 ISIS wives start repatriation case in Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:13:35 -0400

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Lawyers for 23 women who joined the Islamic State group from the Netherlands asked a judge on Friday to order the Netherlands to repatriate them and their 56 young children from camps in Syria. The women and children were living in "deplorable conditions" in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, lawyer Andre Seebregts said in court.

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UAW union president takes leave of absence under cloud of U.S. federal probe

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:31:31 -0400

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The president of the United Auto Workers union, who has been linked https://www.reuters.com/article/us-autos-corruption-labor/federal-corruption-probe-hits-home-for-uaw-boss-contract-talks-under-storm-cloud-idUSKCN1VI229 to an ongoing corruption probe by U.S. federal officials, has taken a leave of absence, the union said on Saturday in a statement. Gary Jones' leave of absence, which follows a vote by the executive board, will be effective beginning Sunday, the UAW said. "The UAW is fighting tooth and nail to ensure our members have a brighter future.

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Iran, Please Don't Develop a Stealth Fighter

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 05:01:00 -0400

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It might be nice to have one, but it'll bring nothing but trouble.

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Bad news for Boeing: Company says more 737 NGs found to have wing cracks

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:36:32 -0400

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The FAA ordered the inspections in 737 NG's that have flown many thousands of flghts

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US military calls on Kurdish forces in northeast Syria

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 10:42:13 -0400

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US military vehicles Saturday entered a Kurdish-held area in northeastern Syria and met with officials, AFP correspondents and a local source said, in the second such visit since an announced US pullout from the Turkish border area. Beige-coloured armoured vehicles flying the American flag pulled up at the headquarters of the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces outside the city of Qamishli. A US-led coalition has for years backed the SDF in fighting the Islamic State group, but the announcement of an American withdrawal triggered a deadly Turkish invasion against the Kurds on October 9.

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British teenager was suffering from PTSD when she withdrew Cyprus gang rape claim, court hears

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:26:49 -0400

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A British teenager accused of lying about being gang raped in Cyprus may have retracted her claims because she was suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, her lawyer said at a hearing on Friday. The woman, 19, is charged with public mischief for allegedly inventing the attack at an Ayia Napa hotel on July 17. She maintains she was raped by up to a dozen Israeli tourists, but pressured by Cypriot police to make a retraction statement 10 days later. Prosecutors say the teenager willingly wrote and signed the document. On Friday, chartered consultant psychologist Dr Christine Tizzard gave evidence by videolink from Portsmouth Crown Court. Speaking after the hearing in Larnaca, lawyer Michael Polak, director of the group Justice Abroad - which is assisting the teenager - said she was diagnosed as having underlying PTSD, which was reignited by the alleged attack. Lawyer Michael Polak of Justice Abroad is supporting the teengaer Credit: KATIA CHRISTODOULOU/EPA-EFE/REX "We were pleased with the evidence from Dr Tizzard, which confirms what we have been saying," he said. "She explained in simple words to the court the ways in which PTSD affects someone who is put in a difficult situation... Their fight or flight reflex would kick in and they would do anything to get out of that situation... "We look forward to the rest of the evidence, which we say supports the teenager's case that she was put under enormous pressure to sign the retraction statement." The case was adjourned following the psychologist's evidence and a date for forensic linguist Dr Andrea Nini to give evidence is expected to be set on Monday. He is expected to say it was "highly unlikely" that the retraction statement was written by a native English speaker, supporting the teenager's case that it was dictated to her by a Cypriot police officer. The incident allegedly took place in the resort town of Ayia Napa Credit: Amir MAKAR / AFP Her lawyers want Judge Michalis Papathanasiou to rule the statement is inadmissible as evidence. The teenager was a week into a working holiday before she was due to start university when she alleged she was raped by the group of young Israeli men, but was then herself accused of making it up. She spent more than a month in prison before she was granted bail at the end of August, but cannot leave the island, having surrendered her passport. She could face up to a year in jail and a 1,700 euro (£1,500) fine if she is found guilty. The 12 Israelis arrested over the alleged attack returned home after they were released. The teenager's family have set up a crowdfunding page asking for money for legal costs, which has raised more than £40,000.

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For the Best Three-Row Mid-Size Crossovers and SUVs, See These Full Rankings!

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:21:00 -0400

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To Shake Up Trump, Kim Jong Un Gets All Mystical—Then Launches Missiles

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Groups ask California governor to deter parolee deportations

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:59:41 -0400

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Immigrant rights groups called Friday for Gov. Gavin Newsom to end policies they say ease the transfer of prison inmates to federal authorities despite California's efforts to provide a sanctuary to those who are in the country illegally. The groups asked Newsom to stop prison officials from holding parolees until they can be picked up by federal immigration officials. California passed a law in 2017 barring local and state agencies from cooperating with federal immigration authorities over those who have committed certain crimes, mostly misdemeanors, but critics said it doesn't apply to the state prison system.

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Iran says cooperation plan sent to Gulf neighbours

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:08:41 -0400

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Iran said Saturday it has sent Iraq and Arab states of the Gulf the text of its security and cooperation project first unveiled by President Hassan Rouhani at the UN in September. Rouhani "sent the full text (of the initiative) to the heads" of the Gulf Cooperation Council and Iraq and "asked for their cooperation in processing and implementing it", the foreign ministry said. The GCC is a six-nation bloc that groups Saudi Arabia, the United Arab Emirates, Bahrain, Kuwait, Qatar and Oman.

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Andrew Yang's campaign has gone 'mainstream'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:09:00 -0400

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While some Democratic presidential candidates are cutting back on their campaigns, entrepreneur Andrew Yang is going all in, Politico reports.Yang, who as recently as April had fewer than 20 staff members on his campaign's payroll, now has 73 people running the show. "It's been like a startup but this startup has gone mainstream, about to go public, if you want to keep using the analogy," said Zach Graumann, Yang's campaign manager. "And frankly and I tell the team, 'we're just getting started.'"There's some big names now involved with the campaign, as well, lending more credence to Graumann's words. Devine, Mulvey, and Longabaugh -- a media consulting firm which worked for the 2016 campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) but opted not to join forces again for 2020 over "differences in a creative vision" -- has shifted its services to the Yang campaign because he's "offering the most progressive ideas" among the Democratic candidates. They also don't think he's a flash in the pan."We wouldn't have signed on with somebody we didn't think was a serious candidate," Mark Longabaugh said. "Yang has a good deal of momentum and there's a great deal of grassroots enthusiasm for his candidacy and that's what's driven it this far." Yang still faces numerous hurdles to really get back in the running, but the campaign surely thinks it's possible. Read more at Politico.

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23 ISIS wives start repatriation case in Netherlands

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 14:13:35 -0400

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Lawyers for 23 women who joined the Islamic State group from the Netherlands asked a judge on Friday to order the Netherlands to repatriate them and their 56 young children from camps in Syria. The women and children were living in "deplorable conditions" in the al-Hol camp in northern Syria, lawyer Andre Seebregts said in court.

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Brazil police arrest man said to be one of world's most prolific human traffickers

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:22:27 -0400

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Brazilian federal police said they have arrested Saifullah Al-Mamun, born in Bangladesh and considered by authorities one of the world's most prolific human traffickers. In an operation conducted on Thursday after collaboration with U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), Brazilian police arrested members of a group allegedly implicated in a large scheme of smuggling people into the United States. Several arrests were made in Sao Paulo, where Al-Mamun was living, and in three other Brazilian cities.

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A woman in Indiana was found dead in a house filled with 140 snakes with an 8-foot-long python wrapped round her neck

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:41:44 -0400

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Laura Hurst, 36, was found dead in a house in Oxford, Indiana, owned by County Sheriff Don Munson, an avid snake collector.

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Chicago teen charged in suspected gang shooting that injured girl who was trick-or-treating

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:34:50 -0400

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A 7-year-old girl was trick-or-treating in Chicago when she was hit by a stray bullet. A teenager has now been charged.

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El Salvador expels Venezuelan diplomats from the country

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 04:21:06 -0500

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El Salvador said on Saturday it had ordered Venezuela's diplomats to leave the Central American country within 48 hours, arguing that the decision was in line with its position that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate. In a statement, the government said President Nayib Bukele recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president until free elections were held in the South American country. El Salvador will receive a new Venezuela diplomatic corps, named by Guaido, the government added.

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China Thinks a Nuclear Submarine Can Sink Half of An Aircraft Carrier Battle Group

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:00:00 -0400

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Beijing is trying to find out how to sink U.S. aircraft carriers. France might know how to stop them.

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Southwest Airlines flight attendant tells why she sued: 'This was not a joke'

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Renee Steinaker of Scottsdale, a 21-year veteran flight attendant with Southwest Airlines, speaks out about her lawsuit over a bathroom video.

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Threat or chance? Israel eyes Lebanon protests closely

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Looking down on Lebanon from the Israeli-occupied Golan Heights, soldiers wonder whether the political turmoil in the neighbouring country will weaken arch-enemy Hezbollah or make it more dangerous. "There, Hezbollah is very, very strong," said Samuel Boujenah of the Israeli military, gazing at a valley where calm was recently shattered by clashes with the Iran-backed Shiite group.

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For Vietnam's 'Box People,' a Treacherous Journey

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:20:33 -0400

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LONDON -- Vietnamese smugglers call it the "CO2" route: a poorly ventilated, oxygen-deficient trip across the English Channel in shipping containers or trailers piled high with pallets of merchandise, the last leg of a perilous, 6,000-mile trek across Asia and into Western Europe.Compared to the other path -- the "VIP route," with its brief hotel stay and seat in a truck driver's cab -- the trip in a stuffy container can be brutal for what some Vietnamese refer to as "box people," successors to the "boat people" who left after the Vietnam War ended in 1975.Vietnamese migrants often wait for months in roadside camps in northern France before being sneaked into a truck trailer. Snakeheads, as the smugglers are known, beat men and sexually assault women, aid groups, lawyers and the migrants themselves say. People cocoon themselves in aluminum bags and endure hours in refrigerated units to reduce the risk of detection.That journey proved fatal last week for 39 people, many of them believed to be Vietnamese, who were found dead in a refrigerated truck container in southeastern England.As dangerous as the last leg of the migrant journey to Britain often is, those petrifying hours in a trailer are sometimes only a sliver of months if not years of harsh treatment -- first at the hands of organized trafficking gangs, and then under imperious bosses at nail salons and cannabis factories in Britain.But still they come, an estimated 18,000 Vietnamese paying smugglers for the journey to Europe every year at prices between 8,000 and 40,000 pounds, around $10,000 to $50,000.In Britain, where Brexit has discouraged the flow of labor from Eastern Europe, migrants see a country thirsty for low-wage workers, paying easily five times what they could earn at home and free of the onerous identity checks that make other European countries inhospitable.Vietnamese smugglers, for the most part, get their clients across to France and the Netherlands, where other gangs, often Kurdish and Albanian, or, as in the recent case, apparently Irish or Northern Irish, finish the job.Many come from Ha Tinh and Nghe An, two impoverished provinces in north-central Vietnam, and leave for Britain with their eyes wide open to the risks, analysts say. Having watched their neighbors suddenly refurbish their homes with pricier materials, or buy better cars, they crave the same sense of security for their family, whatever it might cost them.But when Britain fails to deliver on that promise, migrants can end up in a dreadful limbo, kept from seeking help by the country's harsh immigration system and living in the grip of a shadowy system of traffickers and the employers who rely on them."I always encourage them, 'Stay at home,'" the Rev. Simon Thang Duc Nguyen, the parish priest at a Catholic church in East London attended by many migrant parishioners, said this week. "Even though you are poor, you have your life. Here, you have money, but you lose your life."Not all the 20,000 to 35,000 undocumented Vietnamese migrants estimated to be living in Britain have horror stories to tell. Many migrants, some experts say, put up with the travails of working in Britain for the real chance of a payday."My research has shown stories of migrants are not all about exploitation and not all about being trafficked," said Tamsin Barber, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. "People are usually coming here agreeing to take high risks to work illegally and potentially earn large amounts of money in the cannabis trade."But more vulnerable Vietnamese are also being trafficked to Britain, with the authorities receiving five times as many referrals last year as in 2012.Once family and friends have scraped together enough money, the odyssey may begin with a trip to China to pick up forged travel documents. That is how many of the dozens of people who died in the truck began their journey, said Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest serving a church in the town of Yen Thanh, where he said dozens of the victims were from.On the way from China to Russia to Western Europe, one of the most punishing stretches is the walk through Belarusian forests to the Polish border. In a 2017 French survey of Vietnamese migrants, a man identified as Anh, 24, told researchers that he and five other men, led by a smuggler, were repeatedly arrested in Belarus, only to be released at the Russian border to try again. When they finally succeeded, they were met by a truck waiting on the Polish side."We were cold," the survey quoted him as saying. "We didn't eat anything for two days. We drank water from melted snow."Other routes, choreographed down to the minute, land migrants in European airports with recycled visas and travel documents, according to "Precarious Journeys," a recent report from ECPAT, an anti-child-trafficking organization, and other groups. As a precaution, smugglers in Vietnam often tell people to arrive at airport check-in desks 10 minutes before they close, for instance, so agents do not have enough time to inspect paperwork.The trip can take months, even years. Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, one of the migrants believed to have died last week, wanted to go to France to find work and support his siblings, seven of them in all, his father, Nguyen Dinh Gia, said. But in Russia, he overstayed his tourist visa and was confined to his house for six months. Then he moved to Ukraine and France, where he found a job as a waiter, before deciding to go to Britain for work in a nail salon.Trips are frequently interrupted when migrants are detained or run out of money. Some migrants are forced to work along the way, in garment factories in Russia or in restaurants across Europe. Some women sell sex, researchers say.Smugglers often keep people in the dark about where they are as a way of exerting total control. In a 2017 case, 16 Vietnamese people picked up by the Ukrainian authorities in Odessa thought they were in France.When migrants disobey their smugglers, the blowback can be fierce."They cannot be discovered by the police, so they have to keep the discipline," said Nguyen, the priest in London. "If you do not behave, you can be punished by beatings, or for women be abused sexually."And once they arrive in Britain, they are often in for a rude awakening. Sulaiha Ali, a human rights lawyer, said migrants were sometimes promised legitimate work in a restaurant or on a construction site, only to be forced to work as "gardeners" in a house converted into illegal cannabis growing operations. Locked inside the house for days at a time and often living 15 to a room, workers face the risk of fire from tampered electrical wiring and health problems from noxious chemicals.In the nail salons where many Vietnamese find work, salon bosses can control every aspect of workers' lives, a power that can breed exploitation, though researchers said some bosses also become migrants' surrogate parents, cooking for them and providing a place to stay.When the police raid places housing migrants, they can often ignore signs of forced work or human trafficking and send migrants into deportation proceedings instead, migrant advocates say. "The emphasis, as soon as it's established someone doesn't have any identification documents, is not trying to establish whether they've been exploited," Ali said. "It's on, 'Can we justify detention? Can we get them removed back to their countries?'"That threat of deportation, whatever someone's circumstances, is a cudgel for trafficking gangs to keep migrants under their sway."There's a serious distrust of authorities, a lot of the time because traffickers have embedded that in victims' minds: 'You don't have official documents,' or, 'You're going to be deported or imprisoned,'" said Firoza Saiyed, a human rights lawyer. "It's another thing that makes disclosure really difficult."Older Vietnamese migrants in Britain, many of whom arrived after the Vietnam War, are separated by a wide cultural gulf from the newer arrivals, but they have still proved to be a crucial support, ever more so in the last week.Nguyen, who left Vietnam in 1984, said he had been fielding calls from families in Vietnam, wanting to know if he could tell them whether their children were in the trailer."The mother, the father, all called me in tears," he said. "I couldn't bear hearing the words. You have to borrow a lot of money for this journey, and now you had hoped your daughter, your son can be successful, and that you can have some money to pay the debt. Now, it's hopeless -- nothing."He went on, "Nothing is OK, as long as they are arrested or in prison. It's OK, they survived. But now they lost two things. They lost hope and they lost their lives. Nothing."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company

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Blast in Syrian town held by Turkey-backed gunmen kills 13

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:00:36 -0400

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A car bomb exploded in a northern Syrian town along the border with Turkey on Saturday killing 13 people, Turkey's Defense Ministry said. The ministry said about 20 others were wounded when the bomb exploded in central Tal Abyad, which was captured last month by Turkey-backed opposition gunmen from Kurdish-led fighters. A spokesman for the main Kurdish-led force in Syria, Mustafa Bali, blamed Turkey for the blast, saying Turkey and the Syrian fighters it backs "are now creating chaos" in Tal Abyad to displace the Kurds who live in the town.

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Readers write: A gun owner’s experience with the NRA, and more

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 02:00:04 -0400

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Assault rifles, bump stocks, the Second Amendment, and more: Readers discuss their opinions on the NRA and the state of gun ownership in America.

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Trump's Naval Dream Seems Sunk: America Can't Afford a 355 Ship Navy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:30:00 -0400

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Like a Christmas wish list, the Navy wants a fleet of 355 ships. It just can’t afford it.

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Trump says he knows all about the new Isis leader - but experts insist 'The Scholar' remains a mystery

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:21:49 -0400

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Days after Isis leader Abu Bakr Al-Baghdadi was killed in a raid by US special forces at a compound in Syria, Donald Trump tweeted that “we know exactly” who the replacement is as head of the terrorist group.Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurashi has been named as Baghdadi’s successor in an audio message released by the group on Thursday.

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Distressing photos show glaciers that are disappearing or on the brink of collapse around the world

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:27:20 -0400

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The future of glaciers around the world is shaky. Here are photos showing some of the glaciers that might not be around for much longer.

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New execution date set for Georgia inmate

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:04:08 -0400

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Georgia officials set a new execution date Friday for a death row inmate two days after he was granted a temporary reprieve because of a legal technicality. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson. Georgia Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward set the execution for the first date of a seven-day window ordered Friday by a Superior Court judge in Thomas County.

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SNL’s Weekend Update Applauds Trump’s ‘Genius Troll Move’ of Leaving New York for Florida

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 01:43:19 -0400

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NBCAfter a lackluster cold open centered on Kate McKinnon’s Elizabeth Warren, a lazy bit with McKinnon’s Kellyanne Conway and the Baghdadi raid’s hero dog mocking President Trump, and several sketches of the great Kristen Stewart doing her damnedest to elevate some seriously subpar writing, “Weekend Update” returned on Saturday Night Live. And this week, co-hosts Colin Jost and Michael Che took a break from cracking transphobic jokes to focus on Trump’s decision to move from New York City to Florida, where he’ll pay even less taxes than he already does.  SNL’s Kellyanne Conway and the Baghdadi Raid’s Hero Dog Mock TrumpBill Maher’s Show Has Gone Completely Off the Rails“Donald Trump announced that he is changing his permanent residence from New York to Florida, because you know what they say: if you can’t drain the swamp, move to it,” said Colin Jost. “I gotta say, it’s such a genius troll move that Trump raised taxes for New Yorkers and then left New York. It’s like ripping one in an elevator, then pressing all the buttons and running out.” “Trump also said he’s leaving New York because local politicians have been treating him very badly—especially one New York politician who has been actively destroying his life,” he added, before throwing to a picture of Rudy Giuliani. Next came Che: “I don’t blame Trump for moving. He got booed today in New York at the UFC fight, he got booed in D.C. at the World Series, now he’s moving to Florida so he can probably get booed at Disney World. He gets booed everywhere he’s ever lived. I mean, even Cosby can still play Philly.”   Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.

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Schools, clinics shut as strike hits UN Palestinian agency in Jordan

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:09:57 -0500

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Thousands of employees of the UN agency for Palestinian refugees went on strike in Jordan on Sunday, shutting schools and health centres that provide services for more than two million people. The strike demanding pay rises is being observed by around 7,000 workers, UNRWA spokesman Sami Mshamsha said, and comes as the agency faces an unprecedented financial crisis. It has brought to a standstill work at UNRWA schools, clinics and centres providing social welfare to refugees across Jordan, Mshamsha said.

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View Photos of Honda's SEMA Lineup

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0400

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Greta Thunberg seeks lift back across Atlantic to climate meet

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:05:54 -0400

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Teen climate activist Greta Thunberg had made it half-way from Sweden to Chile by boat, train and electric car when next month's UN climate summit was unexpectedly scrapped. "As #COP25 has officially been moved from Santiago to Madrid I'll need some help," Thunberg tweeted from Los Angeles. Thunberg's highly publicized journey has so far involved crossing on a zero-emission sailboat from the coast of England to New York, traveling overland through North America by train and in an electric car borrowed from Arnold Schwarzenegger.

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New Mexico man gets life for killing family as teen

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:18:33 -0400

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A man convicted of fatally shooting his parents and three siblings in New Mexico as a 15-year-old was sentenced Friday to life in prison with the possibility of parole in a case that has tested the limits of mental treatment for juvenile offenders. Judge Alisa Hart sentenced 22-year-old Nehemiah Griego after his attorney sought a sentence that would have let him continue treatment while on probation.

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This time, Southern California was prepared for wildfires. Here's how countless homes were saved

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:47:36 -0400

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The winds roared again but Los Angeles and other Southern California cities were prepared as firefighters saved thousands of homes.

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UPDATE 1-El Salvador expels Venezuelan diplomats from the country

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 01:01:06 -0500

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El Salvador said on Saturday it had ordered Venezuela's diplomats to leave the Central American country within 48 hours, arguing that the decision was in line with its position that Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro is illegitimate. In a statement, the government said President Nayib Bukele recognized opposition leader Juan Guaido as Venezuela's interim president until free elections were held in the South American country.

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The U.S. Military is Sending Thousands of Troops and Even B-1 Bombers into Saudi Arabia (To Counter Iran)

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 03:30:00 -0500

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And that is just for starters.

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Trump's Naval Dream Seems Sunk: America Can't Afford a 355 Ship Navy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:30:00 -0400

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Like a Christmas wish list, the Navy wants a fleet of 355 ships. It just can’t afford it.

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Teachers strike taught Chicago's new mayor tough lessons -analysts

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:27:56 -0400

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Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot made strategic errors in the first major fight of her tenure, an 11-day teachers' strike, but may have learned lessons that will prove useful as she confronts immense city budget challenges, political observers said. Lightfoot, 57, was elected in convincing fashion to become Chicago's first black woman mayor in April, when she vaulted to victory on promises to dismantle the city's corrupt political machine and reform the city's school district.

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Jury finds Chicago gang member guilty in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 11:20:49 -0400

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A jury found gang member Drwight Boone-Doty guilty Thursday in the murder of Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed.

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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after deadly US shooting

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 20:52:21 -0400

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Airbnb's boss announced Saturday that the online platform, which offers private homes for rent for short periods, is banning "party houses" after a deadly shooting at a Halloween event in California. Five people were killed and others wounded in a Thursday night shooting in Orinda, California, in a house that had been rented on Airbnb. "Starting today, we are banning 'party houses' and we are redoubling our efforts to combat unauthorized parties and get rid of abusive host and guest conduct, including conduct that leads to the terrible events we saw in Orinda," Airbnb co-founder and CEO Brian Chesky said on Twitter.

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House Intel Chair Schiff says impeachment transcripts could come next week

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 19:52:44 -0400

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Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, said Friday that the panels investigating impeachment could begin releasing transcripts of closed-door witness depositions early next week, part of an effort to move the investigation into public view and allow Americans to evaluate the evidence against President Trump.

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The Most Cringe-Worthy 90s Internet Guides That We Can't Stop Watching

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0400

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A 9,000-barrel leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota spilled enough crude oil to fill half an Olympic-sized swimming pool

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:00:25 -0400

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The second large oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in two years provoked outrage because TC Energy told activists that spills were unlikely.

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Toll in Philippine quakes climbs to 21

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 02:07:41 -0500

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The death toll in two powerful quakes that struck the southern Philippines in the past week has risen to 21, authorities said Sunday, as survivors struggled to access food and water. The 6.6-magnitude and 6.5-magnitude quakes hit the island of Mindanao two days apart, destroying buildings and displacing tens of thousands of residents. The quakes also left 432 residents injured with two people still missing, it added.

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For Vietnam's 'Box People,' a Treacherous Journey

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 15:20:33 -0400

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LONDON -- Vietnamese smugglers call it the "CO2" route: a poorly ventilated, oxygen-deficient trip across the English Channel in shipping containers or trailers piled high with pallets of merchandise, the last leg of a perilous, 6,000-mile trek across Asia and into Western Europe.Compared to the other path -- the "VIP route," with its brief hotel stay and seat in a truck driver's cab -- the trip in a stuffy container can be brutal for what some Vietnamese refer to as "box people," successors to the "boat people" who left after the Vietnam War ended in 1975.Vietnamese migrants often wait for months in roadside camps in northern France before being sneaked into a truck trailer. Snakeheads, as the smugglers are known, beat men and sexually assault women, aid groups, lawyers and the migrants themselves say. People cocoon themselves in aluminum bags and endure hours in refrigerated units to reduce the risk of detection.That journey proved fatal last week for 39 people, many of them believed to be Vietnamese, who were found dead in a refrigerated truck container in southeastern England.As dangerous as the last leg of the migrant journey to Britain often is, those petrifying hours in a trailer are sometimes only a sliver of months if not years of harsh treatment -- first at the hands of organized trafficking gangs, and then under imperious bosses at nail salons and cannabis factories in Britain.But still they come, an estimated 18,000 Vietnamese paying smugglers for the journey to Europe every year at prices between 8,000 and 40,000 pounds, around $10,000 to $50,000.In Britain, where Brexit has discouraged the flow of labor from Eastern Europe, migrants see a country thirsty for low-wage workers, paying easily five times what they could earn at home and free of the onerous identity checks that make other European countries inhospitable.Vietnamese smugglers, for the most part, get their clients across to France and the Netherlands, where other gangs, often Kurdish and Albanian, or, as in the recent case, apparently Irish or Northern Irish, finish the job.Many come from Ha Tinh and Nghe An, two impoverished provinces in north-central Vietnam, and leave for Britain with their eyes wide open to the risks, analysts say. Having watched their neighbors suddenly refurbish their homes with pricier materials, or buy better cars, they crave the same sense of security for their family, whatever it might cost them.But when Britain fails to deliver on that promise, migrants can end up in a dreadful limbo, kept from seeking help by the country's harsh immigration system and living in the grip of a shadowy system of traffickers and the employers who rely on them."I always encourage them, 'Stay at home,'" the Rev. Simon Thang Duc Nguyen, the parish priest at a Catholic church in East London attended by many migrant parishioners, said this week. "Even though you are poor, you have your life. Here, you have money, but you lose your life."Not all the 20,000 to 35,000 undocumented Vietnamese migrants estimated to be living in Britain have horror stories to tell. Many migrants, some experts say, put up with the travails of working in Britain for the real chance of a payday."My research has shown stories of migrants are not all about exploitation and not all about being trafficked," said Tamsin Barber, a lecturer at Oxford Brookes University. "People are usually coming here agreeing to take high risks to work illegally and potentially earn large amounts of money in the cannabis trade."But more vulnerable Vietnamese are also being trafficked to Britain, with the authorities receiving five times as many referrals last year as in 2012.Once family and friends have scraped together enough money, the odyssey may begin with a trip to China to pick up forged travel documents. That is how many of the dozens of people who died in the truck began their journey, said Anthony Dang Huu Nam, a Catholic priest serving a church in the town of Yen Thanh, where he said dozens of the victims were from.On the way from China to Russia to Western Europe, one of the most punishing stretches is the walk through Belarusian forests to the Polish border. In a 2017 French survey of Vietnamese migrants, a man identified as Anh, 24, told researchers that he and five other men, led by a smuggler, were repeatedly arrested in Belarus, only to be released at the Russian border to try again. When they finally succeeded, they were met by a truck waiting on the Polish side."We were cold," the survey quoted him as saying. "We didn't eat anything for two days. We drank water from melted snow."Other routes, choreographed down to the minute, land migrants in European airports with recycled visas and travel documents, according to "Precarious Journeys," a recent report from ECPAT, an anti-child-trafficking organization, and other groups. As a precaution, smugglers in Vietnam often tell people to arrive at airport check-in desks 10 minutes before they close, for instance, so agents do not have enough time to inspect paperwork.The trip can take months, even years. Nguyen Dinh Luong, 20, one of the migrants believed to have died last week, wanted to go to France to find work and support his siblings, seven of them in all, his father, Nguyen Dinh Gia, said. But in Russia, he overstayed his tourist visa and was confined to his house for six months. Then he moved to Ukraine and France, where he found a job as a waiter, before deciding to go to Britain for work in a nail salon.Trips are frequently interrupted when migrants are detained or run out of money. Some migrants are forced to work along the way, in garment factories in Russia or in restaurants across Europe. Some women sell sex, researchers say.Smugglers often keep people in the dark about where they are as a way of exerting total control. In a 2017 case, 16 Vietnamese people picked up by the Ukrainian authorities in Odessa thought they were in France.When migrants disobey their smugglers, the blowback can be fierce."They cannot be discovered by the police, so they have to keep the discipline," said Nguyen, the priest in London. "If you do not behave, you can be punished by beatings, or for women be abused sexually."And once they arrive in Britain, they are often in for a rude awakening. Sulaiha Ali, a human rights lawyer, said migrants were sometimes promised legitimate work in a restaurant or on a construction site, only to be forced to work as "gardeners" in a house converted into illegal cannabis growing operations. Locked inside the house for days at a time and often living 15 to a room, workers face the risk of fire from tampered electrical wiring and health problems from noxious chemicals.In the nail salons where many Vietnamese find work, salon bosses can control every aspect of workers' lives, a power that can breed exploitation, though researchers said some bosses also become migrants' surrogate parents, cooking for them and providing a place to stay.When the police raid places housing migrants, they can often ignore signs of forced work or human trafficking and send migrants into deportation proceedings instead, migrant advocates say. "The emphasis, as soon as it's established someone doesn't have any identification documents, is not trying to establish whether they've been exploited," Ali said. "It's on, 'Can we justify detention? Can we get them removed back to their countries?'"That threat of deportation, whatever someone's circumstances, is a cudgel for trafficking gangs to keep migrants under their sway."There's a serious distrust of authorities, a lot of the time because traffickers have embedded that in victims' minds: 'You don't have official documents,' or, 'You're going to be deported or imprisoned,'" said Firoza Saiyed, a human rights lawyer. "It's another thing that makes disclosure really difficult."Older Vietnamese migrants in Britain, many of whom arrived after the Vietnam War, are separated by a wide cultural gulf from the newer arrivals, but they have still proved to be a crucial support, ever more so in the last week.Nguyen, who left Vietnam in 1984, said he had been fielding calls from families in Vietnam, wanting to know if he could tell them whether their children were in the trailer."The mother, the father, all called me in tears," he said. "I couldn't bear hearing the words. You have to borrow a lot of money for this journey, and now you had hoped your daughter, your son can be successful, and that you can have some money to pay the debt. Now, it's hopeless -- nothing."He went on, "Nothing is OK, as long as they are arrested or in prison. It's OK, they survived. But now they lost two things. They lost hope and they lost their lives. Nothing."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company

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Andrew Yang's campaign has gone 'mainstream'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:09:00 -0400

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While some Democratic presidential candidates are cutting back on their campaigns, entrepreneur Andrew Yang is going all in, Politico reports.Yang, who as recently as April had fewer than 20 staff members on his campaign's payroll, now has 73 people running the show. "It's been like a startup but this startup has gone mainstream, about to go public, if you want to keep using the analogy," said Zach Graumann, Yang's campaign manager. "And frankly and I tell the team, 'we're just getting started.'"There's some big names now involved with the campaign, as well, lending more credence to Graumann's words. Devine, Mulvey, and Longabaugh -- a media consulting firm which worked for the 2016 campaign for Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) but opted not to join forces again for 2020 over "differences in a creative vision" -- has shifted its services to the Yang campaign because he's "offering the most progressive ideas" among the Democratic candidates. They also don't think he's a flash in the pan."We wouldn't have signed on with somebody we didn't think was a serious candidate," Mark Longabaugh said. "Yang has a good deal of momentum and there's a great deal of grassroots enthusiasm for his candidacy and that's what's driven it this far." Yang still faces numerous hurdles to really get back in the running, but the campaign surely thinks it's possible. Read more at Politico.

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Experts on Trump's conduct: 'Plainly an abuse of power, plainly impeachable'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:00:11 -0400

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Republicans may argue Trump’s actions were not impeachable – but scholars say it’s a solid example of a high crimeDonald Trump at the White House in Washington DC this week. Photograph: Jim Lo Scalzo/EPAWas what he did really so bad? And even if it was bad – was it truly impeachable?As Democrats hit the gas on impeachment this week, Donald Trump exhorted Republicans to defend him on the substance of his actions in the Ukraine scandal, instead of sniping about the process.“Rupublicans [sic],” Trump tweeted “go with Substance and close it out!”Trump’s misconduct, critics say, includes using the power of the presidency to solicit foreign intervention in the 2020 US election, by trying to force Ukraine to help conduct a political hit on Joe Biden.Trump denies all wrongdoing and most of his defenders do too. But there is a (slightly) subtler version of Trump defense that Republicans are trying out which says that while Trump’s conduct has not been irreproachable, neither has it been impeachable.The argument, according to constitutional experts and historians of impeachment, is not a strong one. In fact, Trump’s conduct, according to analysts interviewed by the Guardian, hews more closely than any previous conduct by any other president to what scholars conceive as a concrete example of impeachable behavior.Frank O Bowman III, author of High Crimes and Misdemeanors: A History of Impeachment for the Age of Trump and a professor at the University of Missouri school of law, said that Trump’s having extorted actions with no legitimate US national purpose from a foreign country that is “literally at risk of losing its political and territorial independence” without US support was impeachable.“It’s plainly an abuse of power, and it’s plainly impeachable,” Bowman said.“I think these are quite clearly, precisely the type of high crimes and misdemeanors that the founders not only feared but actually discussed at the constitutional convention,” said Jeffrey A Engel, co-author of Impeachment: An American History and director of the center for presidential history at Southern Methodist University.“The high crime is the trade – give me dirt on Joe Biden and his son, and I’ll give you in return military aid and help with your economy – I think that is certainly impeachable,” said Corey Brettschneider, author of The Oath and the Office: A Guide to the Constitution for Future Presidents and a professor of constitutional law at Brown University. Many are finding defending Trump difficult at the moment. Republican lawmakers spent Thursday fleeing reporters trying to ask the question, “Do you think it’s OK for the president to pressure foreign governments to interfere in our elections?”. One lawmaker even headbutted a camera rather than reply.The reason Trump’s alleged conduct is plainly impeachable, historians say, has to do with US impeachment precedent and with what the authors of the US constitution meant when they provisioned impeachment for “high crimes and misdemeanors”.“If we look at history both British and American – and it’s important to look at British history, because our Framers were of course rebel Englishmen and they adopted the phrase ‘high crimes and misdemeanors’ in full recognition of the fact that that was a parliamentary term of art, and that therefore they were adopting to some degree, by reference, previous usages of that term – all of that leads to really the inescapable conclusion that one of the grounds for impeachment has always been abuse of power,” said Bowman.While Trump and his defenders reject the allegation that he has any divided loyalties, critics have pointed out that his actions in office, including his withholding of military aid from Ukraine, have advanced Russian interests – and his own personal interests, when it comes to soliciting election assistance.The founders drafted the impeachment clause specifically with problematic foreign loyalties in mind, Engel said.“Having just gone through the process of a divisive revolution, where it was literally neighbor against neighbor and sometimes even brother against brother split over loyalty,” Engel said, “there was a great deal of concern about just simply making sure that the people who were in charge generally had America’s best interests at heart. Because people had so many friends over the course of their lives that did not – or at least that chose France or that chose Britain.”In an Oval Office interview on Thursday, Trump compared his conduct favorably with the last two presidents to face impeachment proceedings, Richard Nixon and Bill Clinton.“Everybody knows I did nothing wrong,” Trump told the Washington Examiner. “Bill Clinton did things wrong; Richard Nixon did things wrong. I won’t go back to [Andrew] Johnson because that was a little before my time. But they did things wrong. I did nothing wrong.”Trump’s analysis of his own behavior does not stand up to scrutiny, scholars said.“Obviously the degree of severity is almost immeasurably different,” said Bowman. “With respect to Clinton, yes you had a violation of law, in the sense of his having committed perjury, but he committed perjury in order to conceal a private, consensual sexual affair. Now that’s discreditable, it’s also criminal – he got disbarred as a result of doing it.“But in terms of the interests of the nation, not even remotely comparable.“In this case, Trump is literally holding the independence of another country hostage to his own political interests. Not only is that contemptible, and in many ways more contemptible than what Nixon did, but I think it’s also true, and we’ve heard a lot of testimony about this over the past couple of weeks, that what he was doing is endangering an American policy objective, the whole framework of containment of Russian expansionism, the bedrock of our policy in eastern Europe for the last 70 years.“It’s far worse, in that regard, I think, than what Nixon did.”Engel said the “Nixon case is very instructive” in judging the integrity of Trump’s defensive wall in the Republican members of Congress.“The Republicans by and large backed Nixon right up until the moment they didn’t,” Engel said. “Which is to say, when new information came out, in his case specifically the smoking gun tape, that nobody in good conscience could refute, his support eroded literally overnight.“And I think we will see potentially a similar dynamic, at least that dynamic is set up, that there’s no particular reason at this moment that Republicans feel a need to break with their party.“But history suggests that they may at some point open the newspaper and realize they have no choice but to switch sides.”

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Store clerk sentenced to 22 years for killing teen who stole $2 beer

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 10:42:39 -0400

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A Memphis store clerk was sentenced Thursday to 22 years in prison for fatally shooting a 17-year-old who had shoplifted a beer, authorities said.

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Iran unveils new anti-US murals at former embassy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 07:58:09 -0400

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Iran on Saturday unveiled new anti-American murals on the walls of the former US embassy as Tehran prepares to celebrate the 40th anniversary of the storming of what it labels the "den of spies". The new murals -- mainly painted in white, red and blue, the colours of the US flag -- were unveiled by Major General Hossein Salami, the head of Iran's Revolutionary Guards, at the former mission turned museum. A third showed the American Global Hawk drone that was shot down by Iran in June over the Strait of Hormuz, with bats flying out of it.

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PG&E and Southern California Edison have turned off power to minimize fires. It hasn't worked. What will?

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 13:59:00 -0400

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Pacific Gas & Electric and Southern California Edison have cut off power to minimize wildfire risk. Yet the wildfires haven't stopped. What now?

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Fact: The United States and Iran Came within Minutes of War Back in June

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 00:00:00 -0400

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Around 4:30 AM that morning, a U.S. Navy RQ-4N Global Hawk spy drone flying a routine circuit over international airspace in the Persian Gulf was shot down by an Iranian Ra’ad surface-to-air missile system. Later that day, U.S. forces were ostensibly “ten minutes” away from striking three Iranian bases likely with air- and sea-launched missiles

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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after Halloween shooting in California

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:43:41 -0400

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Police were still searching for the shooter who opened fire on Thursday night at the costume party, which authorities say was attended by more than 100 people at the house in Orinda, less than 20 miles (30 km) east of San Francisco. The party host rented the home through Airbnb and told its owner she was holding a reunion for only a dozen people, the San Francisco Chronicle reported citing the owner, Michael Wang.

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Trump impeachment: Energy secretary refuse to cooperate with probe unless he gets ‘open hearing’

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:11:00 -0400

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The US energy secretary has said he will not cooperate with the impeachment inquiry into ​Donald Trump unless he gets an “open hearing”.Rick Perry, who has previously ignoring a congressional subpoena to testify before House committees spearheading an investigation into the president’s dealings with Ukraine, once again indicated he would not attend.

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Beijing says 'ready to work' with ASEAN on South China Sea rules

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 05:11:41 -0500

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Beijing said Sunday it is "ready to work" with Southeast Asian nations on a code of conduct in the flashpoint South China Sea, where it is accused of building up military installations and bullying fellow claimants. China claims most of the resource-rich waterway, a major global shipping route that has long been a source of tension in the region. For years, the 10-member Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) has been locked in talks for a code of conduct for the sea, where China is accused of deploying warships, arming outposts and ramming fishing vessels.

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For the Best Three-Row Mid-Size Crossovers and SUVs, See These Full Rankings!

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Date: Fri, 01 Nov 2019 18:21:00 -0400

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Top sommelier accused of sexual assault as MeToo hits fine wine industry

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:47:04 -0400

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A prominent US sommelier has been accused of sexual assault by several women in a report in the New York Times. Anthony Cailan, 29, has worked at restaurants including the Usual in New York, and Bestia, and Animal, in Los Angeles. Mr Cailan was on the cover of the October issue of Wine & Spirits magazine, which named him a leader of the industry. 4 women have accused Anthony Cailan, a rising star sommelier, of sexually assaulting them or of attempting to do so https://t.co/eoOT5jWKxI— The New York Times (@nytimes) November 1, 2019 Raquel Makler, 22, a wine bar manager, claimed to the New York Times that Mr Cailan assaulted her at his apartment. Sarah Fernandez, 29, a wine sales representative, also claimed that she had been assaulted at his apartment by the sommelier. Two women who declined to be named made similar allegations. In an email to the newspaper Mr Cailan said: "The truth is, these allegations against me are false. I look forward to the opportunity to clear my name." In the last few years the MeToo movement has led to sexual assault and misconduct allegations against a series of prominent men involved in the restaurant industry. The wine business is also dominated by men and sexual harassment is common, the New York Times reported after speaking to 30 women across the industry.

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z5E10TUiiTF2${6h*nfecf4 z1j!UK4@QAt3RW?N3}G=4Ks~|8fdB#e5B5F&AQ~+^R`C0_J}gE?S;&JCNjw-#hOtov zVVH-6L_C3jV7(*aK|BuzkN_; House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:24:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/scalise-claims-schiff-directed-witnesses-211926210.html,"House Minority Whip Steve Scalise (R., La.) lambasted House Intelligence Chairman Adam Schiff for allegedly shutting down questions from House Republicans in an impeachment inquiry hearing, calling it “a Soviet-style process.”“That might be what they do in the Soviet Union, not the United States of America. We can’t stand for this, the American people are being denied equal justice,” Scalise stated.> House Minority Whip @SteveScalise rips into Democratic ""soviet style"" impeachment process:> > He says that @RepAdamSchiff ""started telling witnesses not to answer questions by certain Republicans."" pic.twitter.com/5mcEU8NZuq> > -- Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) October 29, 2019 Scalise’s comments come after the House released a draft resolution instituting a formal process for the inquiry, which includes allowing Republicans to present subpoenas and call witnesses, but only ones that are “authorized” by Schiff.“Adam Schiff, among many things, has been trying to claim that this is a fair process by saying that Republicans are allowed to ask questions,” Scalise told reporters alongside Ohio Republican Jim Jordan. “Now he gets to choose all the witnesses, and him and himself only, which means it’s not a fair process on the face. But even his claim now, that Republicans can ask questions, has been undermined, because now he’s directing witnesses not to answer questions that he doesn’t want the witness to answer, if they’re asked by Republicans.“He’s not cut off one Democrat, he’s not interrupted one Democrat and told a witness not to answer Democrat members’ questions, but today he started telling the witness not to answer questions by certain Republicans. That reeks.”House Republicans have been hostile to Schiff’s handling of the impeachment probe, and last week attempted to pass a resolution to censure the California Democrat and demanded his resignation. Following the failed party-line vote, House Leader Kevin McCarthy (R., Calif.) accused Democrats of electing “to put politics over truth.”",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uXJvDWBba6YdJ.fQv44IaA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://i0.wp.com/www.nationalreview.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/steve-scalise-capitol-hill.jpg?fit=1024%2C597&ssl=1,Scalise Claims Schiff Has Directed Witnesses Not to Answer Republicans’ Questions During ‘Soviet Style’ Impeachment Hearings -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:51:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bernie-sanders-says-doesnt-intend-195113050.html,"Sanders said in a CNBC interview that ""I don't think I have to"" release details specifying how universal healthcare coverage would be paid for.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2orRAETSkwQQaeN6_h7LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/e21d07626ec59c81d309d983d53a0df4,Bernie Sanders says he doesn't intend to release a funding plan for Medicare for All any time soon -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment -Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment -Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:46:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/everybody-read-words-call-pelosi-145151698.html,"Nancy Pelosi responded to Trump's tweets about Alexander Vindman's testimony, writing on Twitter, ""Everybody has read your words on the call.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTwHjSKEkaxGGzlnz8WQQA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/81f943677d57859fd9379365729009f9,'Everybody has read your words on the call': Pelosi responds to Trump tweets on impeachment -Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:18:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/russia-finding-islands-arctic-while-171824970.html,"Russia already has the world's longest Arctic coastline, and five newly discovered islands give it even more territory to work with.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qrloLwli.Jx_bcUMPTdvBw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/1801c54af7a2425d59827698505e68a3,"Russia is finding new islands in the Arctic, while the US is still trying to figure out how to get up there" -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:43:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-impeachment-fox-news-ingraham-yoo-duffy-ukraine-smear-164330029.html,"Hours before Army Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman was due to testify against President Trump in the House impeachment inquiry, conservative pundits on cable television launched an extraordinary attack against the decorated war hero.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RVWDZ8cKrYpg7LhblbUpyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/e544f2a0-fa66-11e9-8dff-62cb0ed6aa1e,Trump allies on Fox and CNN preempt damning testimony with smears -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 22:19:03 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/frustration-rises-amid-another-round-213206029.html,"With no electricity for the fourth straight day Tuesday, chef and caterer Jane Sykes realized she would have to throw out $1,000 worth of food, including trays of brownies, cupcakes and puff pastry. ""I don't think PG&E really thought this through,"" she lamented. Frustration and anger mounted across Northern California on Tuesday as the state's biggest utility, Pacific Gas & Electric, began another round of widespread blackouts aimed at preventing its electrical equipment from sparking wildfires in high winds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gHk4DdbHRLs_QfWj0r20KA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/166263d36c4f8e3529708e8424c36bec,Anger mounts as utility imposes more blackouts in California -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -"Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:31:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pelosi-schiff-prep-gop-impeachment-193134453.html,"Congressional Democrats are struggling to protect the identity of the U.S. government official who filed a whistleblower complaint about President Donald Trump’s Ukraine policy. And those efforts have fueled friction behind closed doors. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Adam Schiff (D-CA) ruled in a closed-door deposition Tuesday morning that any questions that might lead to the revelation of the whistleblower’s identity were out of order, according to two sources familiar with the meeting. His move frustrated Republicans. One source relayed that Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA) and Rep. Mark Meadows (R-N.C.) ended up “yelling at each other” during a closed door deposition of Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council Director for European Affairs who testified that he raised internal concerns about Trump’s call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky that is now at the center of the impeachment inquiry.Meadows declined to discuss the deposition, but acknowledged the tension. “There is a great frustration among some of my Democratic colleagues because I know the rules extremely well,” he told The Daily Beast.Schiff’s office declined to comment. House Democrats Plan an Impeachment BlitzTuesday’s tensions underscored a growing fear among Democrats that Republicans may use parliamentary maneuvers to cast doubt on the whistleblower’s complaint and disrupt future private and public impeachment hearings. Top congressional Democrats, including members of the Intelligence and Judiciary Committees, have been meeting privately for weeks to discuss messaging around the impeachment inquiry. And in a meeting on Tuesday morning, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and other attendees discussed how to handle potential Republican efforts to reveal the whistleblower’s identity, according to two sources familiar with the talks. A third source who was in the meeting said they were not aware of discussion about protecting the whistleblower’s identity. But the source did say that a good chunk of the discussion focused on how to handle Republican-led attempts to disrupt future public hearings, which impeachment investigators officially teed up on Tuesday. Some Democratic members have raised concerns that hearings could become chaotic political circuses with GOP lawmakers using the parliamentary rules to bog down the sessions. Republican members have used such tactics successfully during Judiciary Committee hearings led by Chairman Jerry Nadler (D-N.Y.)—most notably when Trump’s former campaign manager Corey Lewandowski spent much of his time refusing to answer questions and berating his questioners. That hearing embarrassed many Democrats and was widely viewed as a mess, underscoring the need for new direction and leadership in oversight of the Trump White House. Going forward, the third source said, Democrats wanted to better prepare for such “stunts” by setting firm rules for hearings. “It is going to happen at every turn, so we have to be prepared to address it,” the source said. “So we may do it through the rule. And we need to come up with a message to deal with this.”The House Rules Committee is slated to vote on formal rules of the impeachment hearings on Wednesday, and the full House could vote on the new rules as soon as Thursday.Meadows said that any accusation that Republicans were trying to out the whistleblower were untrue because they did not know who to actually out. “We don’t know who the whistleblower is, so there’s no way that we can out someone that we don’t know who it is,” he said. “I do believe that we need to hear from the whistleblower, but in terms of any ability to out the whistleblower, you have to know the name of him or her first and I can assure you that there’s not a single Republican that knows the name of the whistleblower.”Nunes Aide Is Leaking the Ukraine Whistleblower’s Name, Sources SaySources have told The Daily Beast a different story. According to two knowledgeable people, a top staffer to Rep. Devin Nunes (R-CA) has been circulating the identity of a person believed to be the whistleblower among House Republicans.On Tuesday, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL) exited the deposition and railed against Republican lawmakers for seemingly spending “most of their hours” of questioning using a variety of tactics to try to get Vindman to reveal the whistleblower’s name. She said that Republicans had been “repeatedly halted” from asking about the whistleblower during the session. “It certainly appeared they were trying to make sure they could put a universe of individuals who had been communicated with on the table,” Wasserman Schultz told The Daily Beast during a break in the deposition. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/VwR53joFHajc34X73g_9JA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/cea860978efe46cc1b3ace53c4fa9790,"Pelosi, Schiff Prep for GOP Impeachment ‘Stunts’ and Attempts to Out the Whistleblower" -Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:42:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iranian-beauty-queen-stuck-philippine-162424186.html,Bahareh Zare Bahari continues to await her fate at the Manila international airport after arriving nearly two weeks ago from Dubai.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wMiy4G5eWGz2hBF7335HUQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_818/d7889da5b7828ac591d323cbc13fad9d,Iranian beauty queen stuck at Philippine airport for nearly 2 weeks fears death if deported -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:10:45 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-sides-indicted-oligarch-over-231045762.html,"Nicholas Kamm/AFP/Getty ImagesPresident Donald Trump boosted a tweet Monday promoting a controversial allegation from an indicted Ukrainian oligarch: that a top U.S. diplomat put fabricated information about the mogul in a diplomatic cable. That diplomat happens to be one of Democrats’ key impeachment witnesses. And that oligarch happens to have a long-standing beef with Joe Biden.Scott Adams, a Washington, D.C., talk radio host, sent out a tweet Monday night about U.S. Ambassador to Ukraine Bill Taylor, who delivered some of the impeachment inquiry’s most damaging testimony yet. The tweet alleged that Taylor lied about Ukrainian natural gas baron Dmytro Firtash in a cable to State Department headquarters in 2008. At issue was a conversation Taylor had with Firtash in Kyiv that December. Taylor wrote in a diplomatic cable (later published by WikiLeaks) that Firtash told him he had “acknowledged ties to Russian organized crime figure [Semion] Seymon Mogilevich,” one of the most notorious accused mobsters on the planet. According to Taylor, Firtash said “he needed Mogilevich's approval to get into business in the first place,” but had not committed any crimes in the course of his business.When WikiLeaks published the cable in 2010, Firtash issued a statement on his website disputing its contents. Firtash, the statement claimed,“has never stated, to anyone, at any time, that he needed or received permission from Mr. Mogilevich to establish any of his businesses.”Earlier this year, Firtash reiterated that defense. Without mentioning any American official by name, he said someone must have fabricated the detail about Mogilevich. Taylor, meanwhile, has defended the State Department’s notes. The Justice Department appears to side with Taylor; its lawyers have argued in court that Firtash has ties to Russian organized crime. The criminal charges he faces, however, don’t involve any such alleged relationships. Instead, the Justice Department charged him in 2014 with helming a conspiracy to bribe Indian government officials. Trump’s retweet, however, offers a presidential thumbs-up to Firtash’s side of the story, and raises a new line of attack on Taylor’s credibility for the president’s allies.  Asked about his sourcing for the allegations against Taylor, Adams told The Daily Beast, “My sources are solid Foggy Bottom people.” He also noted the explanation for the cable that Firtash provided to The Daily Beast earlier this year.This specific defense of Firtash took hold in The Hill over the summer, when columnist John Solomon, whose articles informed Rudy Giuliani’s Biden-Ukraine investigation, published a piece in July claiming that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s deputy said Firtash’s criminal charges in the U.S. might “go away” if he shared damaging information about Trump with Mueller’s team. Solomon cited “multiple sources with direct knowledge” and contemporaneous memos. Firtash and Solomon share the same lawyers: Victoria Toensing and Joe diGenova. The husband-wife team are veterans of the conservative movement’s most contentious legal battles, with longstanding ties in the Justice Department and Trump administration. Ukrainian Oligarch Seethed About ‘Overlord’ Biden for YearsRead more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/img4cdxZ1ieXCNFd4Mc9LQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/587ec0455ae1dd540b5137a1aa5a82f6,Trump Sides With Indicted Oligarch Over His Own Diplomat -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-every-angle-2019-rolls-165900681.html,,,View Every Angle of the 2019 Rolls-Royce Cullinan -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 20:24:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-appeals-court-blocks-release-002418002.html,A U.S. appeals court on Tuesday issued a stay that blocks the release to a congressional committee of an unredacted copy of former Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report detailing Russian meddling in the 2016 U.S. election. U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell on Friday ordered President Donald Trump's administration to hand over by Wednesday a copy of the Mueller report that included material that had been blacked out. The department is trying to block Democrats from accessing the full Mueller report on the grounds that doing so would require the disclosure of secret grand jury materials and potentially harm ongoing investigations.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fz1VCBgFGaVmKO3x5szMOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/eb5d09674854a637e10155f5ff0e2aed,U.S. appeals court blocks release of unredacted Mueller report pending appeal -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:14:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/baghdadi-death-means-al-qaeda-171408420.html,"SITE Intelligence GroupWith ISIS leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi killed one day and the group’s official spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir the next, there’s a giant hole in the pseudo-Caliphate structure of the so-called Islamic State. The group must now, by its strict religious tenets, find a new (supposed) descendant of the Prophet Muhammed to fill the role of Caliph. But the deaths of those two are equally consequential for al-Qaeda, the bitter rival of ISIS for leadership of global jihad. Al-Qaeda has spent the last six years branding the Caliphate as illegitimate, too extreme, and ultimately harmful. When ISIS declared the establishment of its so-called Caliphate spanning territory in Syria and Iraq in 2014, al-Qaeda and its affiliates unanimously rejected it. To this day, al-Qaeda leader Ayman al-Zawahiri’s speeches rarely come without some critique of the “epidemic” put forth by ISIS.Trump Officials Had No Clue Where He Got ‘Whimpering’ Detail in His Baghdadi Raid AccountOddly, Baghdadi was killed in Idlib, a haven of al-Qaeda-linked fighters and Hayat Tahrir al-Sham, a Syrian Islamist faction led by Abu Muhammad al-Julani, a former al-Qaeda comrade who had become one of Baghdadi's most bitter foes. There has been some speculation Baghdadi was not just hiding out but trying to recruit from the ranks of his enemies.Neither al-Qaeda Central nor its affiliates have commented on Baghdadi’s death as yet, but within hours after the news broke, al-Qaeda ideologues and supporters already were celebrating the event and discussing what it will mean for the future of jihad. In chat groups online, al-Qaeda supporters voiced resentment after years of bitter strife with the group, and the scale of these responses illustrates just how much of a big deal and opportunity they see with Baghdadi’s death.“Based on his orders, thousands of the mujahideen were killed,” one post read.“How thrilled were they every time leaders from al-Qaeda were martyred?” read another.Some wished Baghdadi the ultimate condemnation:  “May Allah send him to Hell.”Messages by others, however, particularly al-Qaeda-linked ideologues, balanced expressions of justice for the jihadi movement with restraint, making sure not to celebrate excessively the result of an operation by the United States.The tactful enthusiasm is calculated. Many ISIS fighters, much of its military infrastructure, many media officials, and supporters were pulled from al-Qaeda. Now, with ISIS’ “Caliph” dead and that Caliphate itself destroyed, al-Qaeda has been given its biggest opportunity yet to bring many of them back under its tent. SITE Intelligence GroupPerhaps the most profound instance of this outreach was a lengthy essay by “Adel Amin,” the pen name of a prominent ideologue linked to the Shabaab al-Mujahideen Movement, al-Qaeda’s branch in Somalia and most powerful affiliate. The message, disseminated widely across al-Qaeda-supporting channels and chat groups (many of which are also frequented by pro-ISIS users), demanded that ISIS supporters “return to the road of righteousness” after the Islamic State, in all of its excessive aggression and delusions of destiny, has proven itself a failure. Amin wrote:The situation here is not one in which to gloat. It is a situation for reminding and calling on those who remained in the ranks of al-Baghdadi, to reconsider… Indeed, we witnessed its back being broken, its leaders getting killed, and its banner falling, and we hope that we can witness whoever remains from its soldiers returning to righteousness.Statements by other ideologues and supporters voiced the same points. A statement by Sirajuddin Zurayqat, a former religious official in the now-defunct al-Qaeda-linked Brigades of Abdullah Azzam in Lebanon, urged: “Now [Baghdadi] is dead and there is not one from the Ummah grieving over him or giving condolences... Therefore, those who were deceived by him should reconsider before it is too late!”These messages echo the same calls heard from Zawahiri and al-Qaeda affiliates over the years calling on ISIS fighters to “repent” and leave the group. Yet despite these new circumstances, ISIS supporters will not easily be moved. Since the summer of 2016, the group’s followers have seen the loss of the major cities Mosul in Iraq and Raqqah in Syria as well as the death of revered ISIS figures like Omar Shishani, Abu Muhammad al-‘Adnani, and others. With the latest setbacks to its leadership, ISIS-linked accounts online already have poured out calls to stay steadfast and have even used Baghdadi’s death as a rallying point to carry out new attacks. Reinforcing this undeterred support is an ISIS military and media machine that has shown no sign of stopping in the last two days. While ISIS has not yet officially acknowledged the death of Baghdadi, it has continued reporting on day-to-day military activity across Iraq, Syria, and the Afghanistan-Pakistan region.ISIS' Yemen Province - AQAP Prisoners as Featured in the video “He Who Starts is More Unjust”SITE Intelligence GroupFurthermore, while al-Qaeda affiliates like the Shabaab serve as powerful representatives of the organization, al-Qaeda Central is weaker than it has ever been. These days, al-Qaeda Central’s role is largely symbolic, limited to leadership messages and other content while steering the big-picture ethos of the organization. Its attempts to bolster its image, already heavily weighed down by a less-than-charismatic leader in Zawahiri, were upended upon the death of Hamza bin Laden, the son of Osama, whom al-Qaeda likely was grooming for an eventual leadership position. These variables considered, al-Qaeda may not be the appealing alternative for jihadists that its supporters want it to seem. So, while some fighters might very well join the ranks of al-Qaeda affiliates in their region, we shouldn't expect to see any drastic migration from ISIS’ ranks into its rival’s.Despite any notions of good-riddance that al-Qaeda and its supporters attach to Baghdadi’s death, and for whatever number of defectors it may win over as a result of Baghdadi’s demise, ISIS is not going anywhere. The barriers between these terrorist organizations have only hardened over the years, fueling deadly clashes and jihadi PR wars. Baghdadi was not the sole barrier keeping ISIS members from joining al-Qaeda, and his death is unlikely to diminish existing disputes.How U.S. Commandos IDed a ‘Mutilated’ Baghdadi So QuicklyRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QcYdXaN_8T4S1wGgb4g_rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/61b52f4bd864d7492e1a1855d59b3e16,What Baghdadi’s Death Means for al Qaeda—and Why It Matters -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" -US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:29:53 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/us-helicopter-raid-reported-syria-135329505.html,"The US is believed to have carried out fresh raids on suspected senior Islamic State members in Syria overnight, as officials assessed a treasure trove of intelligence gathered from Isil leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s final hideout. Helicopters reported to be from the US-led coalition flew late on Monday night into al-Shuyukh village south of Jarablus, around three miles from a raid the previous day that killed Isil’s spokesman Abu Hassan al-Muhajir. Donald Trump, the US president, tweeted on Tuesday that Baghdadi's ""number one replacement"" had been killed. He did not name who that was, but it is thought he was referring to Muhajir. Analysts do not agree that Muhajir would have been Baghdadi's natural successor.  Just confirmed that Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s number one replacement has been terminated by American troops. Most likely would have taken the top spot - Now he is also Dead!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) October 29, 2019 A spokesman for the Kurdish-dominated Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF), which is believed to have jointly conducted the mission, said there had been a “successful raid targeting and arresting senior Isil members” on Monday night without elaborating. Local sources reported that the mission lasted no more than 20 minutes and no clashes were heard. “An Iraqi family had moved there in recent times,” Aghiad al-Kheder, co-founder of anti-Isil activist group Sound and Picture, told the Telegraph. “We think two men were taken away by the helicopters.” The men’s identity, or relationship to Baghdadi, was not immediately known. “We think it's related to the Baghdadi raid,” said Mr Kheder, whose group has sources on the ground in the area. ”For sure US found important documents and maybe in the next few days we will see many operations like this.” Pentagon officials told the Washington Post that the documents and other information gathered during the raid on the compound in Barisha in Idlib province close to the Turkish border would prove useful in hunting down remaining senior Isil figures. The officials said two men were also captured alive in the raid who they hoped could provide intelligence about the group. Evidence was growing that Isil had an established smuggling ring, taking senior members from Deir Ezzor in eastern Syria and Qaim in western Iraqi to Idlib. The last moments of Islamic State leader Kurdish spies cultivated a source inside Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi’s inner circle who was able to steal the Islamic State leader’s underwear for DNA sampling and provide a detailed layout of his compound ahead of the US raid, the SDF commander said.  Mazloum Kobani Abdi, the head of the SDF, told NBC his intelligence officers had turned one of Baghdadi’s security advisors who was able to give critical information about the jihadist leader’s house and the tunnels beneath it.  The source took a pair of Baghdadi’s underwear and a blood sample to help US forces confirm who was hiding in the compound. The source was at the site on the night of the raid and was whisked out by US commandos. Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF, revealed more detailed information about the group's role in finding Baghdadi.  ""Since 15 May, we have been working together with the CIA,” said Polat Can, a senior adviser to the SDF. He said their surveillance tracked the 48-year-old reclusive leader moving to the village of Barisha in northern Idlib from northern Deir Ezzor in April. Iraqi officials confirmed to the Telegraph that they had arrested members of Baghdadi’s inner circle who were part of the ring and gave up the leader’s location. It is thought fighters with the Islamist group Hurras al-Din, an al-Qaeda-aligned group which is usually hostile to Isil, were also facilitating senior Isil leaders’ movement through rebel-held Idlib. Baghdadi was discovered at the house of one Hurras al-Din commander, Abu Mohamed al-Halabi, who was killed in the raid. Mustafa Bali, SDF’s spokesman, said that Muhajir, described as Baghdadi’s right-hand man, was believed to have been in the area in order to facilitate Baghdadi’s movements in Idlib and possibly on to Turkey. Muhajir was targeted in the village of Ain al-Baydah near Turkish-administered Jarablus with the help of SDF intelligence. Local sources said Muhajir had been travelling in a convoy made up of an oil tanker and a car. The SDF has questioned how Ankara was not aware of the presence of Baghdadi and other senior leaders so close to areas in Syria under its control.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/B6KeUW_UtUzwNngkCtKRHg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_telegraph_258/71d3f202cf4591cbce4db9a6c924df4d,US helicopter raid reported in Syria after trove of Baghdadi intelligence taken -Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:28:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/senior-adviser-jared-kushner-time-232812737.html,"Jared Kushner, senior adviser and son-in-law to President Trump, responded to former Vice President Joe Biden’s claim that he was unqualified to serve in the White House in a recent interview, telling an Israeli journalist that he’s spent his time in the administration addressing problems of Biden’s making.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/gbfkvL8rEZWBtZivoY1qzQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/giraffe-314364-1572391239373.jpg,Senior adviser Jared Kushner: Time in White House spent 'cleaning up the messes' left by Biden -Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 19:04:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/bidens-communion-denial-highlights-faith-202010024.html,"A Roman Catholic priest's denial of communion to Joe Biden in South Carolina on Sunday illustrates the fine line presidential candidates must walk as they talk about their faiths: balancing religious values with a campaign that asks them to choose a side in polarizing moral debates. The awkward moment for Biden came during a weekend campaign swing through South Carolina, a pivotal firewall in his hopes to claim the Democratic presidential nomination. The former vice president on Sunday visited St. Anthony Catholic Church in Florence, a midsize city in the state's largely rural northeast.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0eAikis68MbjXlmIWhfCrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/6f42ea748e997cd468168b71c0f2c7e4,Biden's communion denial highlights faith-politics conflict -"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 13:29:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kurdish-prison-former-fighters-never-see-sun-170546772.html,"Just months ago, the most hardcore among them were still bent on defending the last sliver of the Islamic State group's ""caliphate"" in Baghouz, Syria. AFP correspondents obtained exclusive access to the site in Hasakeh province. IS fighters were accused of carrying out beheadings, mass executions, rapes, abductions and ethnic cleansing in territory they held across swaths of Iraq and Syria.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/swlXvmCIOivBfvHkHX8OUw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/c04e21e89450ec03633d81b49e5a3b956e34ed42.jpg,"In a Kurdish prison, former IS fighters never see the sun" -2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 21:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2020-toyota-land-cruiser-heritage-010000263.html,,,2020 Toyota Land Cruiser Heritage Edition Is Even More Capable and Luxurious -The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:54:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/internet-wouldnt-same-without-11-195400407.html,,,The Internet Wouldn't Be the Same Without These 11 Women -He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:49:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/undocumented-now-hes-exposing-detention-100018960.html,"Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, has surveyed 600 asylum seekers and says the president’s policy is ‘sending people to die’Tom Wong, a UC San Diego professor, is uncovering the abuse immigrants face in overcrowded detention facilities. Photograph: Erik Jepsen/UC San Diego PublicationsTom K Wong’s world shattered at age 16 in 1998 when his parents told him he was undocumented. The Riverside, California, teenager thought his life was over.Now 37, Wong is one of the prominent scholars in the US on immigration, most recently uncovering abuses inside detention centers in his latest University of California, San Diego research. The political science professor, whose family migrated from Hong Kong when he was two and overstayed their visas, released groundbreaking research on Tuesday on asylum seekers, exposing violence and suffering at the border as the Trump administration is escalating its crackdown on migrants.Wong surveyed more than 600 asylum seekers affected by Donald Trump’s controversial “remain in Mexico” policy, which has forced tens of thousands to return to Mexico while their cases advance. Roughly, 85% reported that immigration detention facilities failed to provide adequate food and water and that they were unable to sleep due to overcrowding, cold temperatures and other conditions. Only 20% reported being able to take care of basic hygiene, such as showering and brushing their teeth.More than half said they faced verbal abuse inside detention, with some saying they also suffered physical abuse. Roughly 25% also had their property seized when taken into detention, including important documents and cash that was not returned to them, he said.A majority said they were forced to return to Mexico without any further investigation of the violence they might face there, which Wong said was a direct violation of the policy.While waiting in Mexico, one out of four said they were threatened with physical violence, and more said they ended up homeless.Asked about Wong’s research, a spokesperson for Immigration and Customs Enforcement (Ice) said the agency “provides safe, humane, clean, professionally run and appropriate conditions of confinement” and access to legal and translation services. A spokesperson for Customs and Border Protection, which also detains migrants, said it “takes allegations of mistreatment of individuals in our facilities seriously” and that employees found to violate standards “will be held accountable”.Wong talked with the Guardian about his non-traditional academic career, the crisis at the border, and how he uses his PhD to fight back. The conversation has been condensed and edited for clarity.Can you tell me what it was like to discover you were undocumented?My parents told me I couldn’t go with my high school basketball team to Canada. Then they told me I couldn’t get a driver’s license. I couldn’t get a job. And there was just a cascade of no, no, no. And finally my parents said it’s not because we don’t want you to do these things, it’s because you can’t. All my hopes and dreams about growing up were literally shattered in a single moment. And it was during a time when there wasn’t the undocumented youth movement, so I wasn’t able to find other students.I grew up in a predominantly Latino neighborhood, and before I found out I was undocumented, California was becoming a ground zero for this emerging anti-immigrant movement. I remember there were policy debates with the white kids on one side, the brown kids on the other, and me feeling like I had little understanding. But everything that was being said negatively toward my Latino classmates actually applied more directly to me.How did you overcome this and become an academic?I barely graduated high school after learning I was undocumented, because at the time I thought, what’s the point? But I got married when I was 19 and I was able to adjust my immigration status. I paid for a summer politics class, and I thought if this professor can make a living teaching, maybe I can do the same.It took me years to realize I bring a different perspective to the study of immigration, politics and policy, that my history is my comparative advantage. It’s a perspective that helps me ask questions that others don’t. It took me a while to talk about my experience of being undocumented, because my parents’ immigration status was still tenuous. But they’re fine now, and I’m able to speak out.What has been most shocking to you about your findings on what happens to asylum seekers?Some findings were simultaneously shocking, but also very expected since we’ve heard anecdotal reports. There were over 200 incidents of verbal abuse, dozens of instances of physical abuse and even property being taken away. I heard of someone losing their life savings.The findings about language access also really stuck out. Individuals are getting instructions about critically important steps in languages that they don’t speak: often Central American asylum speakers who speak an indigenous language by default are given instructions in Spanish. In San Diego, there are a lot of different languages – Asian Indians seeking asylum who speak Hindi were given instructions in English or Spanish. I find it hard to believe that we as a country can’t find a Hindi speaker. This is a basic due process tenet.What do we now know about the conditions people face when they are forced to return to Mexico?So many have experienced or been threatened with physical violence while waiting. Despite the handshake agreement between the United States and Mexico that Mexico is responsible for the humanitarian needs of these asylum seekers being returned, we are putting people in harm’s way by returning them to Mexico.What do you think is most important for the public to understand about the impact of Trump’s policies on asylum seekers right now?This administration wants to see net zero refugee admissions, which we are getting close to. This is a core part of the agenda. It’s not just in disregard of international and domestic law, but it’s in disregard of the fact that so many of the asylum seekers who are being turned away are seeking protection from persecution. It’s an agenda that is blind to the experiences of these families. The inevitable result is that people will be sent to circumstances where they will likely die.What do you hope is the impact of your work and your findings?I used to believe in facts swaying public opinion. But I fear we are in a political moment where the ability to select which facts to consider true is making the work we do less important. Now it may be very difficult to move public opinion when opinions are formed on such a visceral level.But facts still matter. The truth still matters, because what is happening now is the administration is often acting first, and then the courts are litigating later. So even if the public is less and less swayed by the facts on the ground, judges still are.Were there moments in your career where you found academia unwelcoming?It can be strange having lived through something and then hearing about that subject through the perspective of somebody who studies the topic, but doesn’t have that personal connection. But I do quantitative work, and at the end of the day, the data speak much louder than my own personal background.What’s the hardest part of doing academic work that is relevant to urgent policy matters?A lot of academics are just scared about being wrong and being publicly wrong. But I believe in the importance of the work, and that means I need to be confident that I can stand by it. A few years ago I thought my bar was peer review in an academic journal. Now I understand my bar to be that as well as, “Can this pass muster with a federal judge or can this withstand a deposition from attorneys for the Department of Justice?”What effect does the work have on you personally?It’s often miserable. It’s difficult to hear. It’s difficult to interact with people, to see women and little kids who are the ages of my own children in shelters in Mexico, not knowing what’s going on. It is difficult to not internalize it. But I believe in the work. If it’s not me, I’m afraid there won’t be others who step up. Because it’ll be too easy for those others who want to step up to then step out after really understanding how difficult it is to have these conversations.How do you think we can get out of this crisis moment?We have to know our immigration policy past. Every generation gets to decide for itself, whether it embraces diversity through our immigration system or pushes it away by closing our golden door. We are defining for this generation how we are answering the question of what it means to be a nation of immigrants. And we have done that historically. And in some periods in our history, we have closed our doors to immigrants, and in other periods we have opened them again. This is cyclical. It is difficult to live through, but this has been a cyclical part of our immigration policy past.Every four years we as a country get to collectively answer whether or not we still believe in this idea that we are a nation of immigrants. In 2020, we will get to vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5mTp_BGJvUvwmexmBzFrEg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/9a0dd9c25d5ea0ca1353ff565b5c5106,He was undocumented. Now he's exposing detention center abuse -8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 17:51:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/8-hero-dogs-dont-deserve-215100143.html,,,8 Hero Dogs That We Don't Deserve -London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial,"Tue, 29 Oct 2019 14:05:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/london-police-detain-jailed-former-180551277.html,"Police in London on Tuesday detained Karime Macias, the wife of a disgraced former Mexican state governor who is serving a 9-year jail sentence for money laundering and links to organized crime, a spokesman for Mexico's attorney general's office said. Macias will now face an extradition trial in Britain, the spokesman said. A judge in the Gulf Coast state of Veracruz, where Macias' husband Javier Duarte governed from 2010 to 2016, issued a warrant for her arrest in 2018 for the alleged misuse of over 112 million pesos ($5.9 million) in funds from a social welfare program.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EclFAkzG_HbggplvD3D..w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/5c4bb46b7d6966fdb858429a7358666b,London police detain jailed former Mexican governor's wife; faces extradition trial -"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records","Tue, 29 Oct 2019 15:56:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/iowa-man-killed-wife-she-193954042.html,"Roy Browning Jr. is charged with murder in relation to the death of JoEllen Browning, who worked for the university for more than four decades.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G6vTHYita0RpdmE7rjla7Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/0c6031c4ccd8b5cf61a34f3b7efca4cb,"Iowa man killed wife after she found 'problems' with finances, planned meeting with banker: Records" diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv index 3852b30..e4dd24b 100644 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv @@ -1,1135 +1,3 @@ title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -UK to hold early election in December,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:38:10 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/C3ryCPK8bkg/brexit-general-election-december-12-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-nd-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn,"The UK will hold an early election on December 12, assuming the House of Lords passes the bill backed by lawmakers in the House of Commons on October 29, 2019. CNN's Max Foster reports.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/C3ryCPK8bkg, -The looming UK election is one big gamble for investors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:47:38 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/ZbUky5IsPgI/index.html,"Brits are being asked to vote in an election that could end years of paralysis caused by Brexit. For investors, there are new risks—whatever the result.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ZbUky5IsPgI, -Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, -UK to hold early election in December,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:38:10 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/C3ryCPK8bkg/brexit-general-election-december-12-boris-johnson-jeremy-corbyn-nd-intl-ldn-vpx.cnn,"The UK will hold an early election on December 12, assuming the House of Lords passes the bill backed by lawmakers in the House of Commons on October 29, 2019. 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For investors, there are new risks—whatever the result.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/ZbUky5IsPgI, -Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:58:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/researchers-chicago-must-overhaul-homicide-194803945.html,"The Chicago Police Department must make significant changes in the way it investigates homicides in a city where more than half of killings go unsolved, a police research group said in a report released Wednesday. The Police Executive Research Forum found problems in the department that included inadequate training; a lack of a detective unit devoted solely to homicide investigations; and a failure to adequately help witnesses or even have a witness protection unit that is critical in persuading people to come forward to help solve crimes. The report shows the clearance rate for homicides in 2017, the most recent year listed, was at 36% for the nation's third-largest city, compared with 84% for New York and 73% for Los Angeles.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/27.enbYrr0qTq2xQ9xiLBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1257f48a666ef06156bf37a7ab479b80,Researchers: Chicago must overhaul homicide investigations -Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:42:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-exec-alleges-company-161657802.html,"A Juul Labs executive who was fired earlier this year is alleging that the vaping company knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers. The allegation comes in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers representing Siddharth Breja, a one-time finance executive at the e-cigarette maker. The suit claims that Breja was terminated after opposing company practices, including shipping the contaminated flavored pods and not listing expiration dates on Juul products.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZJe0yLkkCrtXTL7CI9vB3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1b773f8bc9f5d70267924b0c415b6653,Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:52:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-impeachment-figure-makes-return-214101537.html,"Impeachment is back, and so is Bob Livingston. The former congressman from Louisiana who abruptly resigned on the same day the House impeached President Bill Clinton made an improbable return Wednesday as a figure in the sequel — the drive to impeach President Donald Trump. There, in the leaked opening statement of the day's witness was a Foreign Service official's recollection that a ""Robert Livingston"" had repeatedly phoned the National Security Council to urge the firing of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, over her links to Democrats.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DRoY3gppqRXhGwtoDudBTg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/eae2d2d5dbf080f230d5c034ac54bbc3,Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel -Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:42:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-exec-alleges-company-161657802.html,"A Juul Labs executive who was fired earlier this year is alleging that the vaping company knowingly shipped 1 million tainted nicotine pods to customers. The allegation comes in a lawsuit filed Tuesday by lawyers representing Siddharth Breja, a one-time finance executive at the e-cigarette maker. The suit claims that Breja was terminated after opposing company practices, including shipping the contaminated flavored pods and not listing expiration dates on Juul products.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZJe0yLkkCrtXTL7CI9vB3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1b773f8bc9f5d70267924b0c415b6653,Former Juul exec alleges company shipped tainted products -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:52:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/clinton-impeachment-figure-makes-return-214101537.html,"Impeachment is back, and so is Bob Livingston. The former congressman from Louisiana who abruptly resigned on the same day the House impeached President Bill Clinton made an improbable return Wednesday as a figure in the sequel — the drive to impeach President Donald Trump. There, in the leaked opening statement of the day's witness was a Foreign Service official's recollection that a ""Robert Livingston"" had repeatedly phoned the National Security Council to urge the firing of the U.S. ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch, over her links to Democrats.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DRoY3gppqRXhGwtoDudBTg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/eae2d2d5dbf080f230d5c034ac54bbc3,Clinton impeachment figure makes return in Trump sequel -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:56:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-fans-beginning-ditch-123647436.html,"Since the spring, the fraction of voters who say they like Warren and at most one or two other candidates has gone up by 10 percentage points.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pWZ.MdamT6NwDSjc54qpoA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/76c21804d602d8ded06df7207a9d27ac,"Elizabeth Warren fans are beginning to ditch the 2020 competition, which is exactly what she needs right now" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:47:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/congress-considers-delaying-spending-talks-194715001.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Democrats and Republicans in Congress are deliberating whether to push the deadline to fund the government into early February to avoid having a budget fight amid an impeachment inquiry into President Donald Trump that’s set to stretch at least into December.That would mean enacting another stopgap spending bill to avert a government shutdown when the current short-term funding runs out Nov. 21, assuming the two sides don’t be able to agree on a budget plan by then.Senate Appropriations Chairman Richard Shelby, a Republican, has floated the idea of a stopgap spending bill until February, though he said Wednesday he hasn’t discussed it with Majority Leader Mitch McConnell.“I think that’s a pretty realistic assessment of where we are today,” said Shelby of Alabama. “Miracles do happen but I haven’t seen a lot of them around here.”House Democrats on the Appropriations Committee are also weighing a February stopgap, lawmakers and aides say.Trump’s insistence on funding a wall on the southern border is again hanging over funding decisions in Congress, as Democrats and Republicans negotiate 12 annual spending bills. An impasse over the border wall led to a 35-day partial government shutdown early this year. After it ended, Trump used emergency powers to raid military construction accounts to fund the wall.Wall MoneyWhen Shelby floated the idea of a stopgap bill until February, he said impeachment would “take the oxygen” out of the Capitol. But Democratic Representative David Price, a member of the Appropriations panel, said Trump’s continued demand for money to build a border wall is the problem.“Shelby can blame impeachment all he wants but it is their allocations that is standing in the way,” Price of North Carolina said. “If not for this wall issue we could get this done tomorrow.”House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell are said to oppose a long stopgap in order to try to force a spending deal sooner. Hoyer wrote to McConnell on Tuesday to urge immediate talks on spending.Republicans want to replenish the $7 billion in military funds that Trump redirected toward construction of the border wall, and Democrats say they won’t refill those accounts without provisions to guard against future shifting of funds. Senate Republicans also are seeking $5 billion in new money for the wall.This already delicate negotiation is further complicated by the impeachment process that has enraged Trump and heightened partisan acrimony on Capitol Hill.Senate Minority Leader Charles Schumer said Tuesday he was worried that Trump could use the Nov. 21 deadline to provoke a shutdown to distract from impeachment.”I’m increasingly worried that President Trump will want to shut down the government again because of impeachment,” Schumer said. “He always likes to create diversions.”Shutdown FearsRepublicans and Democrats in Congress say they don’t want another government shutdown, although they also said that when government funding ran out at the end of 2018. The Senate and the House, both led by the GOP at the time, were on the brink of a deal in December when Trump persuaded House Republicans to hold out for wall funding.The House has already passed its 12 appropriations bills, and the Senate this week is on track to pass a package of four spending bills that would fund Interior and Environment; Commerce, Justice and Science; Transportation, Housing and Urban Development; and Agriculture. This Senate measure would need to be reconciled with the House versions to become law.The most important thing for spending committee leaders is to agree on the topline allocation of spending for all government agencies. Senate Democrats say they’ll block debate on the annual Defense spending bill, the top GOP priority, until they reach a deal on total allocations.“This week will bring a litmus test: are Washington Democrats so concerned by impeachment that they cannot even fund our men and women in uniform?” McConnell said Tuesday. “It’s hard to imagine a more basic legislative responsibility than funding the Department of Defense.”\--With assistance from Jack Fitzpatrick.To contact the reporter on this story: Erik Wasson in Washington at ewasson@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Joe Sobczyk at jsobczyk@bloomberg.net, Laurie AsséoFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/M_gBixqUTKtNLood1HKdOQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/40fd63c8d0df90d81de4e3a310a07c72,Congress Considers Delaying Spending Talks Until After Impeachment -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 20:27:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wow-crowd-1968-ford-mustang-002734185.html,"Painted in Highland Green, this Shelby tribute even has a bit of Bullitt attitude.There is no denying that a classic Shelby GT500 is ready to steal the show no matter where it goes, but many enthusiasts can't afford a legit example. While Shelby purists may turn their noses at the idea, classic car enthusiasts will appreciate this 1968 Ford Mustang Shelby GT500 Tribute car. Streetside Classics is offering the opportunity to own this incredible tribute to the iconic Shelby GT500.Cloaked in the iconic Highland Green, a color made famous by Steve McQueen in Bullitt, the body of this GT500 tribute is in fantastic shape. Covering the engine bay is a fiberglass hood with dual scoops, and the front features an extended nose. Other Shelby upgrades include the scoops on the quarter panel and the trunk spoiler. Even more, iconic white Shelby stripes were painted over the top, and it was given matching decals on the rocker panels. Further adding to the Shelby attitude is the driving lights embedded in the grille, Cobra badges, and correct-style 15-inch wheels that sit on all four corners. Black vinyl in excellent shape protects the roof.Under the hood sits a 289cui V8 engine with power shifted to the rear wheels via a C4 three-speed automatic transmission. Even more, the engine is adorned with Cobra ribbed valve covers and a matching long air topper. Providing additional oomph and rumble is the glasspack-style dual exhaust that plays in symphony with the small block. Navigating the turns comes easy thanks to power steering.Continuing on with the green theme, peek inside to a clean Ivy Gold two-tone interior with Deluxe trim. A wood-rimmed steering wheel protrudes from the dash, and a cup holder can be found in the center console. If you have been eyeing a classic Shelby GT500 but can't justify the price, check out this 1968 Shelby GT500 tribute car. With its exterior hue, you can say that the car even has a little bit of Bullitt attitude coursing through its veins. This beautiful classic is being offered by Streetside Classics and is listed at $31,995, but feel free to make an offer here. Read More... * Drop The Top In This Restored 1966 Chevy Corvette Roadster * Break Necks In This Low-Mileage 1987 Buick GNX",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/BK70CmOSL_bmJnaqCCuROA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/0b24f133366f71d7b4c0e913056aa0b9,Wow The Crowd In This 1968 Ford Mustang GT500 Tribute -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:00:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/al-gore-makes-climate-case-080002432.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Al Gore’s 400-acre farm is located in Carthage, a small Tennessee town where the former vice president and senator traditionally kicked off his political campaigns. During his second act as a famous environmentalist, the farm became the site of a training program for aspiring climate activists, and more recently, an experiment in what Gore said is the world’s most realistic chance at averting climate catastrophe.Topsoil, the foot or so of ground underneath your feet, is responsible for almost all food production on Earth. It also stores more than three times as much carbon as forests. Today, agriculture is a net carbon emitter, contributing about 14% of all greenhouse gas emissions, but unlike power generation or automobiles, it can be turned into a net absorber, pulling carbon out of the atmosphere.If farming practices are changed through the use of cover crops, low-tilling and tree-planting, Gore said, agriculture conglomerates and family farmers alike could theoretically make their farms more productive while fighting global warming. Those changes can also replenish nutrients to the world’s soil, of which 33% has already been depleted.A virtuous circle if there ever was one—and one that’s already attracting attention from farmers, consumers and food companies.Gore, 71, is preaching the benefits of so-called carbon farming, a form of regenerative farming, at a time when U.S. President Donald Trump has been trying to roll back regulations meant to limit greenhouse gas emissions. And while science-based climate policy has been a prominent topic on the Democratic presidential campaign trail, it’s not always seen as a priority.Gore, who these days is more of a denim-wearing advocate than reserved technocrat, remains undeterred. His laboratory has been the farm where his parents once raised livestock and grew tobacco. Earlier this month, he invited 450 soil experts—farmers, scientists, chefs, food experts, entrepreneurs and investors—to join him there to discuss how to scale regenerative farming into something that might actually slow climate change.“We’ve waited so long to start to address the climate crisis,” Gore told those gathered. “We will need to both reduce emissions drastically and take as much carbon out of the atmosphere as we possibly can.”Unlike 2006, when Gore’s film “An Inconvenient Truth” was met with skepticism in some quarters, 13 years of intensifying storms, catastrophic floods and unprecedented droughts and wildfires have persuaded more Americans that there’s a very big problem. The goal now, Gore said, is to get people to start taking carbon farming seriously.When it comes to actually tackling what may soon become an existential crisis, the numbers are daunting. Trillions of dollars are needed to adapt civilization to the near-term consequences of climate change while tens of trillions of dollars are needed to slow its advance. But Gore said there are still too few plans to reverse global warming that don’t rely on technology that has yet to be developed.“Planting trees and sequestering carbon in soil are likely to remain the two most effective approaches,” Gore said in an interview at his Carthage farm. “There’s already some indication that farms that operate this way are more resilient in the face of climate extremes.”Carbon dioxide levels in the atmosphere are at their highest in 3 million years. Oceans, the biggest carbon sinks of all, are acidifying because they hold too much of it. Plant life, which absorbs CO2 through photosynthesis, can sink carbon into the soil. Regenerative farming helps speed that along—with the added benefit of producing more nutrient-rich soil.Rattan Lal, a professor of soil physics and director of Ohio State University’s Carbon Management and Sequestration Center, is the key scientist behind Gore’s thinking. Lal served on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) when it shared a Nobel Prize with Gore in 2007, and was awarded the Japan Prize this year for his work on soil carbon sequestration.The world’s population currently uses more than a third of the planet’s surface for agriculture, according to the United Nations. In the U.S., close to 40% of land is farmland. Soil used for agriculture has degraded and eroded over centuries of use, losing between 20% and 60% of its original carbon content, according to the IPCC. Lal’s research shows that soil can sequester carbon at rates as high as 2.6 gigatons each year. An aggressive, global combination of tree planting and increased vegetation along with soil carbon sequestration, he said, has the “technical potential” to absorb 157 parts per million of CO2.With about 415 parts per million in the air today—a huge jump compared with a few decades ago—removing even a fraction of that could slow the advance of global warming.“There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Gore is realistic when it comes to the fraught politics of climate change and the policies that would need to align to make that potential possible. Moreover, carbon farming is a nascent concept in the U.S.: California has a growing program and Hawaii’s plan to become carbon neutral by 2045 includes a carbon farming framework. U.S. Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s “Green New Deal,” supported in some form by several Democratic presidential candidates, simply encourages farmers to improve soil health.But even without any legislation on the horizon, big agriculture is starting to pay attention.Eco-conscious shoppers are beginning to look for food farmed with regenerative practices, just as they do for organic products and sustainable packaging. General Mills set a goal in August to have 1 million acres in its supply chain transitioned to regenerative agriculture by 2030, and a group of companies including Danone North America and Unilever’s Ben & Jerry’s have been working on a certification for food farmed with regenerative practices.Not everyone is convinced its time has come, though. Timothy Searchinger, a research scholar at Princeton University who has studied the issue, said scalable carbon farming is still very much a pipe dream.“There is an unbelievable amount of scientific uncertainty,” Searchinger said. “There is virtually no analysis that shows the feasibility of doing any of this at scale.”Indeed, while there is some evidence that soil carbon can be rebuilt on degraded land, the technique requires putting so much nitrogen in the soil that the technique may not be viable in some places, he said. Additionally, many regenerative farmers discover that after a few years of no-till farming, their yields begin to fall. Searchinger said better options for achieving natural carbon sequestration at scale would be to focus on reducing deforestation and preserving peat lands.“It’s not the most useful thing to do in agriculture,” Searchinger said. While carbon farming would be helpful, he said the bigger agricultural climate issue is methane from livestock, something that might be addressed with feed additives.At its most basic, carbon farming is about leaving the ground alone. Simply plowing and tilling fields can disturb soil’s natural structure, releasing stored carbon into the atmosphere and displacing insects and microbes necessary for healthy soil. No-till farming creates fields that are better at acting like a sponge to absorb both water and carbon.Gore’s home state Tennessee leads the U.S. in no-till farming, with more than 78% of its farmland managed that way, versus 37% for the U.S., according to the Soil Health Institute. On his farm, some 10,000 trees have been planted to increase soil carbon. Small groups of cattle and sheep are rotated to graze in different areas, adding natural fertilizer to soils. The farm uses compost and cover crops to keep the soil healthy, rather than for their profit potential.Regenerative farming has more costs than traditional methods, especially upfront. Only about 108 million acres cross the U.S. are using some regenerative practices, according to Project Drawdown, a climate research group (as of 2012, the government said there were 914 million acres of farmland in America). The group estimates it would cost about $57 billion to convert another 1 billion acres by 2050, but that some 23.15 gigatons of CO2 could be sucked out of the atmosphere by doing so.While not a solution to the climate crisis by itself, Lal told the audience at Gore’s farm that regenerative farming could be, at the very least, “a bridge to the future.”Planting the same cash crops each year without rotating them tends to deplete nutrients from soil. Regenerative farming, meanwhile, results in more nutrient dense-crops. But most farmers don’t have any incentive to change what they are doing, because staples like wheat, rice, soybeans and corn are usually covered by federally-subsidized U.S. crop insurance—a $100 billion industry which currently guarantees that more than 290 million acres of U.S. farmland deliver returns for farmers regardless of the harvest.“For most people, this is a very new idea,” said Will Rodger, director of policy communications at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “We’re certainly aware that carbon can be stored in the soil, but farmers have very narrow margins. Many of our members are looking very closely at it, but the question is how to make it a business.”The U.S. Farmers & Ranchers Alliance proposed earlier this year that lenders find more creative financing models to help farmers employ regenerative practices. A study published this month in Nature Climate Change found that deploying land sector strategies like carbon farming, as well as food waste reduction and increasing plant-based diets, could turn farming into a net absorber of carbon as soon as 2050.Gore predicts that popular adoption of regenerative farming will someday take hold the same way residential solar and electric vehicles have caught on. “Farmers are doing this because they think it’s better for them,” Gore said. “I look for signs of hope.”To contact the author of this story: Emily Chasan in New York at echasan1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: David Rovella at drovella@bloomberg.netFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fZi_K4S7kgMEpAkFCdczMg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/2f9b9b938ffcd69bb8fc199a89eedafd,Al Gore Is Opening a New Front In the War On Climate Change -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Election Gamble Could Backfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 01:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boris-johnsons-brexit-election-gamble-050000800.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Brexit Bulletin, follow us @Brexit and subscribe to our podcast.Boris Johnson has succeeded, finally, in getting Parliament to give him the general election that he wants. The polls have him far ahead: YouGov had 36% of voters backing his Conservatives, with Labour in second place on 23%. But his move is still a risky one. Here are the ways it could go wrong.Polling ErrorRemember the 2015 U.K. election shock? And the 2016 Brexit referendum shock? And the 2017 U.K. election shock? A common feature of all of them was a failure of the polling companies to properly detect a shift in public opinion.At the very time that we want faster, better data from them, pollsters face unprecedented challenges. In particular, they struggle to reach younger, more mobile voters, those who might be expected to oppose Johnson’s Conservatives and Brexit.Votes vs SeatsEven if the pollsters get close with the total vote share, translating it into the thing that matters, seats in Parliament, is very hard. Votes can pile up unevenly. In 2017, the Tories won 42% of the vote, but 49% of the seats. Labour won 40% of both.Tory FatigueThe Conservatives have now been in power for nine years, and even Cabinet ministers acknowledge privately that the last three of those years haven’t been a great advertisement for Tory government. The party’s recent discovery of unity behind Johnson might not outweigh years of infighting and indecision.Hard TimesIt’s not just that the Tories have been in power for a long time, they’ve been in power for a long time while people haven’t got any richer. According to the Office for National Statistics, median weekly earnings are still 2.9% below their 2008 level. That’s not a great backdrop for an election.Brexit FactorJohnson’s slogan, “Get Brexit Done,” feels like an appealing message to a public weary of months of knife-edge votes and reverses. But it’s also an admission that this government has had a single project since 2016, has failed to deliver on it, and everyone is sick of waiting.Johnson hopes to turn that frustration into votes for Conservatives. But voters could conclude that Brexit was a Conservative project -- a Johnson project, in fact -- and that if they’re tired of it, they need someone different in charge.The failure to complete the U.K.’s withdrawal from the EU also leaves the door open to Nigel Farage’s Brexit Party to take votes away from the Tories. If Farage does well enough to stop Tories winning key seats, Corbyn could ultimately benefit.Money’s TightJohnson’s other message is that by getting Brexit dealt with, he will be able to focus on spending money on things people do like, such as schools and hospitals. This too is an admission of failure.After nine years of spending restrictions, Britain’s public services are squeezed: libraries are closing, knife crime is rising, numbers of rough sleepers are increasing. Labour will be very happy to fight an election on the question of who is better at spending money on things.Character FlawsThe Conservatives are pinning a lot of their hopes on Johnson’s undoubted fame. Unlike his predecessor Theresa May, he enjoys campaigning. But that fame brings a problem. Most people have made up their minds what they think of Johnson, and a lot of them don’t like him.According to YouGov, 47% of people have a negative opinion of him, against 33% who have a positive one. Labour is pushing hard on Johnson’s tendency to go back on promises.The Conservatives, too, plan to make much of their opponent’s character: Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn has even worse scores than Johnson: 58% negative, against 23% positive. But at the last election, Corbyn was able to shrug off criticism of his past statements.Mixed MessagesJohnson risks losing a whole load of Conservative seats in places that don’t like Brexit too: southern England, and Scotland. According to Joe Twyman of Deltapoll, that leaves the prime minister trying to pull off a difficult trick.“He needs to convince Remain-leaning Conservative voters to forget Brexit and vote Conservative,” Twyman said. “At the same time convince Leave-leaning Labour voters to hold their noses about him and vote for Brexit.”Right Votes, Wrong PlacesA different version of the same problem is that the Conservatives’ strongly pro-Brexit message helps them do very well in areas they already hold. According to Twyman, of the 50 most “Leave” areas, 24 are already Conservative. Extra votes there don’t help.Accidents HappenConservative politicians are fond of saying that they’ll never run a campaign as bad as the one May ran in 2017. In particular they point to her announcement of a plan to fund care for the elderly from the value of their houses.But things can go wrong. The 2017 campaign was interrupted by terrorist attacks. Johnson could find himself unexpectedly tested. He may be just about the only politician known to everyone by his first name, but he’s also the only one to have had to apologize to an entire city -- Liverpool, in 2004.His team have been keen to keep him away from difficult questions. In the intense scrutiny of an election campaign, that will be harder than ever.To contact the reporter on this story: Robert Hutton in London at rhutton1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Tim Ross at tross54@bloomberg.net, Flavia Krause-JacksonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/G.m4foP92eZpAREH7SCSgw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/d711bd17f3966d5753a56a0bf2e986dd,How Boris Johnson’s Brexit Election Gamble Could Backfire -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:14:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/joe-biden-describes-health-care-211425414.html,"Biden on Wednesday referred to his health care plan as ""Medicare for all who want it,"" employing the phrase used by rival Pete Buttigieg.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Sj5K6np5jul6JsE4mN3xMA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4b698050c974ee811746d4918f10c5a8,"Joe Biden describes his health care plan using Pete Buttigieg's term, 'Medicare for all who want it'" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:02:23 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/d-c-panel-halts-release-130223421.html,"The D.C. Circuit for the U.S. Court of Appeals on Tuesday night halted the scheduled release of grand-jury materials from Robert Mueller’s investigation, just hours ahead of the scheduled distribution.The decision came after a federal judge ruled last Friday that the Justice Department must release unredacted material from the original Mueller investigation, a move House Democrats have clamored for in the midst of the ongoing impeachment inquiry.Judge Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee, wrote that the committee “has shown that it needs the grand jury material referenced and cited in the Mueller Report to avoid a possible injustice in the impeachment inquiry.”The DOJ contested Howell’s ruling and issued an emergency appeal, saying a quick release “threatens an irreparable loss of grand-jury secrecy before this court even has a chance to act on the Department’s stay motion.” The government also noted that Howell gave no explanation for her seemingly arbitrary deadline of Wednesday, which was not offered by Democrats.The three-judge D.C. panel — made up of judges appointed by Barack Obama — decided on an administrative stay in order “to give the court sufficient opportunity to consider the emergency motion for stay pending appeal and should not be construed in any way as a ruling on the merits of that motion,” according to the decision.The debate centers around the validity of redactions to a grand-jury deposition, which is usually kept secret. The DOJ argues that materials in the report are squarely protected by federal evidence regulations, while others point to ongoing criminal matters involved, including a probe by Connecticut U.S attorney John Durham the origins of the investigation. House Democrats counter that secrecy rules do not apply to the impeachment inquiry, which is a judicial proceeding.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/w_heEZnk1hoDQSTVWqjVSg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/5cc14c5df368875c0317fc539bb227fd,D.C. Panel Halts Release of Mueller Documents at DOJ’s Request -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:33:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-says-u-must-confront-013354610.html,"U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday stepped up recent U.S. rhetoric targeting China's ruling Communist Party, saying it was focused on international domination and needed to be confronted. Pompeo made the remarks even as the Trump administration said it still expected to sign the first phase of deal to end a damaging trade war with Beijing next month, despite Chile's withdrawal on Wednesday as the host of an APEC summit where U.S. officials had hoped this would happen.",,Pompeo says U.S. must confront China's Communist Party -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:23:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nato-demands-russia-withdraw-troops-ukraine-175324192.html,"NATO chief Jens Stoltenberg on Wednesday welcomed a pullback by the Ukrainian army and Moscow-backed separatists in eastern Ukraine, but reiterated calls for Russia to ""withdraw all their troops"". The move was a precondition for the first face-to-face talks between Russian President Vladimir Putin and his Ukrainian counterpart Volodymyr Zelensky. ""We welcome all efforts to reduce tensions, to withdraw forces and to make sure that we have a peaceful solution to the conflict,"" Stoltenberg said in the Ukrainian port city of Odessa, praising Zelensky's ""renewed effort"".",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/dPse.sHie6jpKLvU.2Og6w--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/ccb9925c6600d68b3a9aec4b4cd5c966654df4ec.jpg,NATO demands Russia 'withdraw all troops' from Ukraine -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:02:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-impeachment-process-credibility-problem-140229011.html,"Has the House impeachment inquiry hit a brick wall on credibility? Or have House Democrats decided to call Republicans' bluff?After weeks of refusing to hold a full floor vote to formally launch an impeachment inquiry, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) abruptly changed position this week. A Thursday vote will set out more clear parameters for the ongoing investigation without explicitly declaring an impeachment inquiry, but it's far from clear whether this changes anything appreciably -- or if there's anything to change with the current focus on Ukraine policy as the predicate for impeachment.The bill that emerged Tuesday afternoon appears to directly address some of the key criticisms of House Republicans, who grew so frustrated with the closed hearings that they staged an intervention of sorts last week, breaching the Secure Compartmented Information Facility (SCIF) in which the depositions were being taken under the control of House Intelligence Chair Adam Schiff. That set off worries among Democrats that further such demonstrations could obstruct and drag out the impeachment process into next year and into the election cycle, something Pelosi would like to avoid.Democrats' claims that the demonstrations were a GOP stunt had some basis in fact. Some of the Republicans who participated actually did have access to the hearings as members of three committees participating in the testimony. Contrary to some claims made at the time, Republican committee members had the opportunity to ask questions of the witnesses during the deposition and were very engaged in that process.Still, other Republican complaints had started to take their toll. Republicans wanted Democrats to hold a full House vote to openly authorize an impeachment inquiry, rather than use committees to conduct an ad hoc investigation while House Democratic leadership publicly acknowledged that impeachment was the goal. They also wanted open hearings with the witnesses being subpoenaed, which Democrats refused to grant in order to keep witnesses from knowing preceding testimony. Democrats pointed out that the House rules allowed for closed-session depositions and compared them to secret grand-jury proceedings, but Republicans countered that grand juries don't leak characterizations of the testimony at pressers, as Schiff and other Democrats had been doing all along.That has made the proceedings seem as though they're being conducted by a kangaroo court, which has allowed Trump to argue that the process is corrupt. The only way to gain traction for this process is to give it more credibility -- and to call the bluff of Republicans and Trump. Thus, Pelosi introduced a bill that will allow Republicans to call their own witnesses and to access all deposition materials, under the same rules used in the Bill Clinton impeachment process in 1998. The bill also establishes a mechanism for the full release of testimony, which Republicans have repeatedly demanded.This presents an immediate tactical risk for the White House. One of Pelosi's motives is to parry Trump's refusal to cooperate based on a lack of formal approval by the full House. A federal court ruled against Trump last week, but Trump can tie that question up for months on appeals, time that Pelosi perceives she does not have. A full House vote approving these rules not only means that Republicans no longer have due-process complaints (at least going forward), it signals to courts that the full House has indeed given tacit approval for an impeachment inquiry in providing a relatively fair structure for it.However, Pelosi is more worried about a different court: the court of public opinion. That perception that the impeachment process is unfair has hampered Democrats' ability to generate the kind of public support they need to take this to a full vote on impeachment without risking the gains Pelosi made in the 2018 midterms. National polling showing support for impeachment gaining momentum overall, but the response from the American public looks quite different on a state-by-state basis. A poll by The New York Times and Siena College last week showed that voters in six critical swing states with the closest margins in 2016 generally oppose impeachment, 43/53. Those numbers would suggest that continuing on this impeachment process might produce a Pyrrhic victory for Democrats in 2020, one that could produce a historic win for an already-impeached president for the first time ever.To fix that problem, and to force the Senate to take this more seriously, Pelosi has to revamp the process to provide at least the appearance of fairness. However, it's not likely to matter in the end. Impeachment is only the first step in the removal process, and in this case it's likely to be the last step Democrats can successfully take.The Republicans control the Senate, but their majority matters less than the fact that Democrats don't have a supermajority. If Democrats had uncovered a truly serious crime in this probe, that would likely convince at least 20 Senate Republicans to make Mike Pence president. The core problem is that Ukraine-Gate doesn't appear to involve an explicit statutory crime at all, but instead an alleged abuse of authority to gain political advantage over former Vice President Joe Biden. The House can decide what constitutes an impeachable offense, but the Senate decides whether it's even worthy of a full trial, let alone a removal.An impeachment without a removal will, in the end, look a lot like a political campaign no matter how much Pelosi improves the process. Voters will ask themselves why Democrats spent all year obsessed with impeachment under varying rationalizations and then chose the one issue on which they could almost guarantee no success in removal. Pelosi may win a tactical victory with this upcoming vote, but it's not going to solve the big strategic issue awaiting Democrats at the end of this process.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,The Democrats' impeachment process has a credibility problem -Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:24:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/actor-cuba-gooding-jr-charged-222450369.html,"Actor Cuba Gooding Jr, already facing a criminal case over accusations he touched a woman's breasts in a bar and pinched another's buttocks in a nightclub, has been charged in connection with a third woman, his lawyer said on Wednesday. Gooding is expected to appear in court Thursday and plead not guilty to the charges, according to his lawyer, Mark Heller. The charges are not yet public, and a spokeswoman for Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance declined to provide details.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/_mlgfRPFaCxz19SCv.rJTQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/b5800472ccbf51bec8cf4e6e1f98463c,Actor Cuba Gooding Jr charged with unlawfully touching third woman: lawyer -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:25:16 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-cancels-classes-152827771.html,"Chicago's teachers union voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials Wednesday but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Mayor Lori Lightfoot said Wednesday night that she would not meet that demand. Lightfoot accused the union's top leadership of ""moving the goal posts"" by raising the issue Wednesday rather than in a face-to-face meeting with her on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lOph.Gw4KRH.g3RNWANvkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/c42eb1c83977ab65c5450381a3e516ab,Chicago teachers OK tentative agreement but strike goes on -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:14:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/george-papadopoulos-convicted-trump-campaign-012412524.html,"George Papadopoulos, a former Trump campaign aide who went to prison for lying to the FBI, has filed papers to run for the House of Representatives.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FacH2XDYbIp2HFr5PhFK6g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/4860f18a4df00749f95d3c12fb2e1e2b,"George Papadopoulos, convicted Trump campaign adviser, files papers to run for Katie Hill's seat in Congress" -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:09 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/south-africans-face-tax-increases-120509942.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Explore what’s moving the global economy in the new season of the Stephanomics podcast. Subscribe via Pocket Cast or iTunes.South Africans have to brace for higher taxes next year as revenue collection falls short of estimates.Bailouts for the state-owned power utility, broadcaster, airlines and arms maker – together with a failure to curb the public-sector wage bill and stem fiscal leakages – have sapped the state’s resources. Africa’s most-industrialized economy hasn’t expanded by more than 2% annually since 2013, damping confidence and resulting in the longest business-cycle downturn since 1945, weighing on tax income.The National Treasury increased the value-added tax rate last year for the time in more than two decades and has also raised taxes for high-income earners to plug the widening budget deficit. That has added to the strain on consumption spending and economic growth.“Significant tax increases over the past several years leave only moderate scope to boost tax revenue at this time,” the Treasury said in its medium-term budget policy statement released Wednesday in Cape Town. Additional tax measures are under consideration to raise an extra 10 billion rand ($683 million) in fiscal 2021, it said, without giving details.“Given the fiscal position we find ourselves in, all tax options need to be on the table,” said Chris Axelson, chief director for economic tax analysis in the Treasury.The South African Revenue Service will probably collect 1.37 trillion rand in the 2020 fiscal year, 52.5 billion rand less than forecast in February, the Treasury said. The shortfall will be 84 billion rand in 2021 and 114.7 billion rand in 2022, it said.The shortfall reflects “job losses, lower wage settlements and smaller bonuses reducing personal income-tax collection,” the Treasury said. Reduced profitability in a difficult trading environment meant lower-than-expected corporate income-tax collections, while weak household consumption moderated the increase in revenue from value-added tax, it said.The February budget included 7 billion rand from the sale of non-core assets by March, but “there is a risk these sales will not be completed by the end of the financial year,” the Treasury said.The government insists that citizens of Gauteng – which houses the financial hub of Johannesburg and the capital, Pretoria – must pay for electronically administered tolls to use the province’s roads, and will strengthen compliance measures.In July, Transport Minister Fikile Mbalula said South Africa is considering the options available on scrapping the tolls.“Not paying your tolls has already led to our roads deteriorating,” Finance Minister Tito Mboweni said in a prepared copy if his speech. “We have been unable to maintain the network. I urge the nation to please pay your bills.”\--With assistance from Zoe Schneeweiss.To contact the reporter on this story: Ana Monteiro in Johannesburg at amonteiro4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Rene Vollgraaff at rvollgraaff@bloomberg.net, Robert BrandFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/uvN2DnzYlF.TzezBAQo5Gg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8a4780226c720322234fa6fbc613c5e6,South Africans Face Tax Increases as Revenue Collection Lags -The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates.,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/wildfire-californias-sonoma-county-burned-181800816.html,"The Kincade Fire in California's Sonoma County has burned 76,825 acres. PG&E; told regulators that a broken jumper cable may have started the blaze.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YXQSQN7RbEj7HcA6jfa4Uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/8a6143946dc0484545a6b2593cca102b,The Kincade Fire in California has burned an area more than twice the size of San Francisco. Here are the latest updates. -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:38:28 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/stocks-watch-u-k-heads-083828793.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is headed to the polls on Dec. 12, bringing banks, utilities and housebuilders into focus for U.K. equity investors. There’s also the small matter of Brexit, as strategists digest what the latest developments mean for sterling and U.K. assets.In the lead-up to the vote, “both Labour and the Conservatives are expected to come out with pretty punchy views on tax, innovation and public spending, which could have significant implications for both corporates and consumers,” Emma Wall, head of investment analysis at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, said by email.Banks, utilities, transport and and defense are the sectors with most at stake should there be a change in the balance of power, according to Caroline Simmons, deputy head of UBS Wealth Management’s U.K. Investment Office.Here’s what to watch as the poll looms.FTSE 100Given Labour had made taking no-deal out of the equation a prerequisite of supporting a general election, the risk of a no-deal Brexit has reduced, which is likely to support U.K. risk assets, according to Edward Park, deputy chief investment officer at wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group Plc.Should parliament return in December with a mandate for the withdrawal deal brokered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, “sterling will value the reduced no-deal threat and continue the rally seen in recent weeks,” Park said by email. If that proves the case, then the inverse relationship between the exporter-heavy FTSE 100 and the pound should mean the index underperforms, he said.BanksLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister could be just as damaging to British banks’ profits as the U.K. crashing out of the European Union without a deal.According to Citigroup Inc. analyst Andrew Coombs, the biggest risk to the U.K. banking sector is snap elections, given the impact on sentiment attached to the possibility of a Labour victory. The party’s “business unfriendly” deficit-financed policies would likely lead to capital outflows from the U.K., he wrote.U.K. lenders Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc have gained 5.6% and 7.7%, respectively, this month as the risk of a no-deal exit reduced.Utilities and TransportShares of companies that keep Britons warm and bathed have been an excellent indicator of U.K. election risk ever since Labour first vowed to nationalize utilities a few years back. Top of this list are water and electricity utilities, covering the likes of United Utilities Group Plc, Severn Trent Plc, National Grid Plc and SSE Plc.“While fears of nationalization under Corbyn’s rule have remained subdued with lingering Brexit angst, a renewed Labour leadership campaign could weigh heavily on U.K. utilities,” said Andrew Coury, a strategist at Liberum Capital.But if the Conservatives are able to regain power in an election, this threat would evaporate and the underperformance of U.K. utilities to their European peers may be reversed. It could be a similar story for other stocks and sectors Labour is said to have targeted for nationalization, including postal-service operator Royal Mail Plc and the companies that run British transport services like FirstGroup Plc and Stagecoach Group Plc.HousebuildersThe U.K. still suffers from an imbalance between the demand for housing and the volume of new houses being built, so any party campaigning for government would likely have to address this as part of their policy platform.Liberum expects the housing market to slow in the run-up to the election, but that housebuilder shares may outperform should the Conservatives emerge victorious. It particularly favors smaller companies such as Bellway Plc and Galliford Try Plc, which it says should benefit from better risk appetite and which have more attractive valuations.DefenseCorbyn has been a vocal opponent of military intervention in the Middle East and has argued for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. His anti-war stance could hurt defense suppliers such as BAE Systems Plc, according to Citi, which estimated Aug. 1 that the London-based firm’s stock could fall 20% if Labour came to power.The U.K.’s Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarine program -- another of BAE’s projects -- would also be at risk, Citi analyst Charles Armitage wrote. The level of risk to Dreadnought would be reduced if Labour entered a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, he said. A pact with the Scottish National Party would leave both Dreadnought and the Saudi business vulnerable, Armitage added.RetailersIf an election can produce a clear winner and therefore some clarity on the way forward, that may prove positive for retailers as shoppers should be more confident to spend.However, if the ultimate outcome is a hung parliament, making passing legislation even more difficult, that would likely be negative for the sector.Also watch for any impact on companies that own Britain’s shops, particularly the already-battered mall owners Intu Properties Plc and Hammerson Plc. Though UBS analysts think Brexit is only one of the problems that the sub-sector faces.ConstructionU.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid used his first set piece event in the role in early September to lay out plans to spend more money on infrastructure. There have been no further details since then and Javid had to cancel his planned Budget announcement, but if this is revived it would be positive for construction contractors like Balfour Beatty Plc, Costain Group Plc and Keller Group Plc.To contact the reporters on this story: Joe Easton in London at jeaston7@bloomberg.net;Sam Unsted in London at sunsted@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Beth Mellor at bmellor@bloomberg.net, Paul JarvisFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:23:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-orleans-mayor-mitch-landrieu-222329213.html,"Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to talk about the impeachment inquiry into President Trump. Landrieu says that at first he didn’t think it was warranted after the Mueller report came out, but “when the Ukraine matter raised up its head, I changed.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/riyyHWS30ukacweXGdlMjw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/653336a0-fb63-11e9-9fbf-342726b7af06,Former New Orleans Mayor Mitch Landrieu says impeachment inquiry 'has now risen to a level of a substantial case that can be made' -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:01:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/over-half-house-representatives-support-154500322.html,"Currently, almost the entire House Democratic caucus and one Independent are publicly supporting the ongoing impeachment inquiry against Trump.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GloEQjjvKiuOxKRbDF4FyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/dc63495269b132b2e4b1b507ff877f08,Over half of the House of Representatives support the impeachment inquiry against Trump — see all of them here -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?),"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/marines-very-own-anti-ship-210000136.html,Should China be worried?,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/8kAnuL45wTHBUJLeuWbK0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/4e5a8d517912a6283e199c4f2d34539a,The Marines' Have Their Very Own Anti-Ship Rockets (Thanks to the F-35?) -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:26:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-government-spent-16-000-192600418.html,"Sen. Joni Ernst (R-Iowa) wants to rob the federal government of what little fun it has left.Every year, the U.S. government spends more than $1.4 billion on its public relations and advertising efforts -- not that Ernst has a problem with all of that. She's just not a fan of the .002 cents each American taxpayer essentially spent last year on federal ""mascots,"" as well as the several thousand more dollars it put toward various trinkets, and is proposing a bill to end it all.Ernst unveiled her SWAG Act, which stands for Stop Wasteful Advertising by the Government, on Tuesday, which would block federal agencies from creating mascots unless it's done via statute. Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl, for example, would be safe, but Sammy Soil, a literal chunk of soil with eyes created by the USDA's conservation branch, would be rooted out. So would Franklin the Fair Housing Fox, The Green Reaper, and some other mascots Ernst says have been known to make babies cry.A variety of knickknacks are also targeted under Ernst's proposal to ""Bag the Swag:"" the $605,000 spent on coloring books last year; $33,000 on Snuggies; $17,000 on drink koozies; and $16,000 on fidget spinners. Ernst would also ""prohibit the purchase and distribution of 'swag'"" like these, unless they're also authorized by statute, per Ernst's press release.Overall, the federal government spent a total of $250,000 on the mascots last year. The Tax Cuts & Jobs Act, which Ernst voted to enact, is meanwhile expected to cost at least $1.5 trillion.",,"The U.S. government spent $16,000 on fidget spinners last year, and GOP Sen. Joni Ernst is sick of it" -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:14:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-governor-accepted-donations-utility-131432537.html,"California governor, Democrat Gavin Newsom, has accepted large donations from Pacific Gas & Electric Co., a utility company he now excoriates for ""greed"" and ""mismanagement.""PG&E has faced widespread criticism for implementing blackouts for millions of customers to avoid sparking wildfires in the midst of California's dry and windy fall weather.""I have a message for PG&E,"" Newsom wrote on Twitter on Friday. ""Your years and years of greed. Years and years of mismanagement. Years and years of putting shareholders over people. Are OVER.""Newsom and allies accepted $208,400 from the utility during his 2018 gubernatorial campaign, according to local affiliate ABC10. Of that total, $150,000 went to a political spending group called “Citizens Supporting Gavin Newsom for Governor 2018,” while the rest went to directly to Newsom's campaign.PG&E filed for bankruptcy in January 2019. Faulty PG&E electricity equipment has been blamed for sparking several wildfires in the past decade.California has consistently shut down proposals to clear dead trees from forests and to trim trees near power lines state wide, creating conditions for a rash of wildfire outbreaks in recent years.The Kincaid Fire currently burning in Sonoma County in the northern part of the state has forced the evacuation of roughly 200,000 people. The fire is twice the size of the city of San Fransisco.Newsom declared a state of emergency on Sunday in response to the Kincaid Fire and several other wildfires throughout the state. He again threatened PG&E in a statement on the situation.""There is a plan to get out of this. This is not the new normal,” Newsom said on Sunday at an evacuation center in northern California. “This is not a 10-year process to deal with this. That will not be the case… [PG&E] will be held to account to do something radically different",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PwVfYG7dQige5oYEYTjwrQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/7819ecc3bf346550c726f66c60681b59,California Governor Accepted Donations from Utility Company He Now Excoriates for ‘Greed’ -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 04:38:28 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/stocks-watch-u-k-heads-083828793.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The U.K. is headed to the polls on Dec. 12, bringing banks, utilities and housebuilders into focus for U.K. equity investors. There’s also the small matter of Brexit, as strategists digest what the latest developments mean for sterling and U.K. assets.In the lead-up to the vote, “both Labour and the Conservatives are expected to come out with pretty punchy views on tax, innovation and public spending, which could have significant implications for both corporates and consumers,” Emma Wall, head of investment analysis at stockbroker Hargreaves Lansdown Plc, said by email.Banks, utilities, transport and and defense are the sectors with most at stake should there be a change in the balance of power, according to Caroline Simmons, deputy head of UBS Wealth Management’s U.K. Investment Office.Here’s what to watch as the poll looms.FTSE 100Given Labour had made taking no-deal out of the equation a prerequisite of supporting a general election, the risk of a no-deal Brexit has reduced, which is likely to support U.K. risk assets, according to Edward Park, deputy chief investment officer at wealth manager Brooks Macdonald Group Plc.Should parliament return in December with a mandate for the withdrawal deal brokered by Prime Minister Boris Johnson, “sterling will value the reduced no-deal threat and continue the rally seen in recent weeks,” Park said by email. If that proves the case, then the inverse relationship between the exporter-heavy FTSE 100 and the pound should mean the index underperforms, he said.BanksLabour leader Jeremy Corbyn becoming prime minister could be just as damaging to British banks’ profits as the U.K. crashing out of the European Union without a deal.According to Citigroup Inc. analyst Andrew Coombs, the biggest risk to the U.K. banking sector is snap elections, given the impact on sentiment attached to the possibility of a Labour victory. The party’s “business unfriendly” deficit-financed policies would likely lead to capital outflows from the U.K., he wrote.U.K. lenders Royal Bank of Scotland Group Plc and Lloyds Banking Group Plc have gained 5.6% and 7.7%, respectively, this month as the risk of a no-deal exit reduced.Utilities and TransportShares of companies that keep Britons warm and bathed have been an excellent indicator of U.K. election risk ever since Labour first vowed to nationalize utilities a few years back. Top of this list are water and electricity utilities, covering the likes of United Utilities Group Plc, Severn Trent Plc, National Grid Plc and SSE Plc.“While fears of nationalization under Corbyn’s rule have remained subdued with lingering Brexit angst, a renewed Labour leadership campaign could weigh heavily on U.K. utilities,” said Andrew Coury, a strategist at Liberum Capital.But if the Conservatives are able to regain power in an election, this threat would evaporate and the underperformance of U.K. utilities to their European peers may be reversed. It could be a similar story for other stocks and sectors Labour is said to have targeted for nationalization, including postal-service operator Royal Mail Plc and the companies that run British transport services like FirstGroup Plc and Stagecoach Group Plc.HousebuildersThe U.K. still suffers from an imbalance between the demand for housing and the volume of new houses being built, so any party campaigning for government would likely have to address this as part of their policy platform.Liberum expects the housing market to slow in the run-up to the election, but that housebuilder shares may outperform should the Conservatives emerge victorious. It particularly favors smaller companies such as Bellway Plc and Galliford Try Plc, which it says should benefit from better risk appetite and which have more attractive valuations.DefenseCorbyn has been a vocal opponent of military intervention in the Middle East and has argued for the suspension of arms sales to Saudi Arabia. His anti-war stance could hurt defense suppliers such as BAE Systems Plc, according to Citi, which estimated Aug. 1 that the London-based firm’s stock could fall 20% if Labour came to power.The U.K.’s Dreadnought nuclear deterrent submarine program -- another of BAE’s projects -- would also be at risk, Citi analyst Charles Armitage wrote. The level of risk to Dreadnought would be reduced if Labour entered a coalition with the Liberal Democrats, he said. A pact with the Scottish National Party would leave both Dreadnought and the Saudi business vulnerable, Armitage added.RetailersIf an election can produce a clear winner and therefore some clarity on the way forward, that may prove positive for retailers as shoppers should be more confident to spend.However, if the ultimate outcome is a hung parliament, making passing legislation even more difficult, that would likely be negative for the sector.Also watch for any impact on companies that own Britain’s shops, particularly the already-battered mall owners Intu Properties Plc and Hammerson Plc. Though UBS analysts think Brexit is only one of the problems that the sub-sector faces.ConstructionU.K. Chancellor of the Exchequer Sajid Javid used his first set piece event in the role in early September to lay out plans to spend more money on infrastructure. There have been no further details since then and Javid had to cancel his planned Budget announcement, but if this is revived it would be positive for construction contractors like Balfour Beatty Plc, Costain Group Plc and Keller Group Plc.To contact the reporters on this story: Joe Easton in London at jeaston7@bloomberg.net;Sam Unsted in London at sunsted@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Beth Mellor at bmellor@bloomberg.net, Paul JarvisFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",,These Are The Stocks to Watch as U.K. Heads to the Polls Again -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:32:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-reportedly-testified-trump-thought-023200283.html,"During his testimony before House investigators on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, said President Trump was under the impression that a different person -- a longtime staffer of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) -- actually held his position, people familiar with his testimony told Politico. Vindman said that Kashyap Patel ""misrepresented"" himself, and despite having no experience or expertise on Ukraine, was part of the White House's Ukraine policy discussion, Politico reports. Vindman found this out after he attended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration in May, and was preparing to give Trump a debriefing on the event and Zelensky's plans for the future, he reportedly testified. Vindman revealed that ""at the last second,"" his boss at the time, Fiona Hill, told him not to attend the debriefing because it might confuse Trump, who thought Patel was the top Ukraine expert.Patel, Nunes' top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, was known for trying to discredit Justice Department and FBI officials who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Politico reports. He joined the White House in February, and in July, was promoted to a senior counterterrorism role. Hill testified earlier this month that Trump thought Patel was in charge of the National Security Council's Ukraine policy, Politico says.Vindman, who told investigators he's never had a conversation with Patel, also said he was told Patel ignored National Security Council procedures and put negative information about Ukraine in front of Trump, which reinforced his belief that the country was corrupt, Politico reports. It's unclear where he received this information. Read more at Politico.",,Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:33:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ilhan-omar-refuses-back-vote-143204618.html,"Ilhan Omar declined to vote in favour of a resolution recognising the mass killing of Armenians by Ottoman Turks as a genocide, saying any ""true acknowledgement"" of such crimes must include other historical ""mass slaughters"".The Minnesota Democrat was one of just three House members to vote “present” on the resolution that passed in an overwhelming 405-11 vote.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bKw.a_m3fIWm1q5agamYdg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/1897802b491bb4f925ff56eb4356225e,Ilhan Omar refuses to back vote recognising Armenian genocide -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:19:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/3-killed-9-injured-shooting-082755536.html,"A gunman who opened fire from an alley into a party killed three people and wounded nine others in California before fleeing in a vehicle, police said Wednesday. Police Chief Robert Luna called the shooter a coward and urged residents to come forward with any information that might lead to an arrest. Three men were killed, and seven women and two men were taken to hospitals with gunshot wounds.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/4loESatU5y24ZYWRLOpuzA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/83a373c832dba305692e2824e24defae,"3 killed, 9 wounded in shooting at party in California home" -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:48:12 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/jeffrey-epsteins-death-likely-homicide-144812652.html,"A famed pathologist says he believes Jeffrey Epstein’s death was actually a homicide, in spite of the official ruling that it was death by suicide.Epstein was found dead in August in New York City, after being arrested for sex trafficking. Since his death, the deceased financier’s ties to prominent figures in American media and politics — including presidents Bill Clinton and Donald Trump — have fuelled rampant conspiracies that he was silenced.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/u5vAa2gLJ3bXDNFgyxGsog--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/7fc831f264b4d752c142dfebba61bfd2,"Jeffrey Epstein's death was 'likely homicide, not suicide', says famed NYC pathologist" -Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:33:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/dem-rep-claims-trump-immigration-183329201.html,"Florida Democratic Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz accused President Trump and acting U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Ken Cuccinelli on Wednesday of implementing immigration policy in service of a ""white supremacist ideology.""The accusations came during a hearing of the House Oversight Committee on immigration policy.""You and Mr. Trump don't want anyone who looks or talks or differently than Caucasian Americans to be allowed into this country,"" Wasserman Schultz began. A staffer sitting behind her was captured on video as her eyes widened in shock.""You have demonstrated that you will pursue this heinous white supremacist ideology at all costs,"" said Wasserman Schultz. Cuccinelli answered that neither he nor the President was a white supremacist.""That's false,"" Cuccinelli said, calling Wasserman Schultz's statements ""defamatory.""Cuccinelli had been summoned to the hearing to discuss the Trump administration's decision to temporarily stop granting deportation deferments for illegal aliens receiving life-saving treatment in the U.S.Representative Ayanna Pressley (D., Ohio) also entered into a heated exchange with Cuccinelli over who was responsible for the decision, himself or White House officials. Cuccinelli repeatedly asserted that he made the decision and that no White House official was involved.Trump had considered appointing Cuccinelli secretary of the Department of Homeland Security. However, Senator Chuck Grassley (R., Iowa) said the idea was a non-starter.“It’s my understanding that the existing law would not permit him to” lead the organization, Grassley said. “I don’t know how you get around that.” Grassley was referring to current laws that govern succession rules within the federal government.On Tuesday, a top Border Patrol official warned that illegal immigration could hit crisis levels if courts keep blocking Trump's immigration policies.""We will go back, mark the words, we will go back to the crisis level that we had before,"" said chief of law enforcement operations for the Border Patrol Brian Hastings. ""It is kind of a new norm. We’re at risk at any time.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RFoYpPiIn0Rwg.8YJSn9dg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/389fd00c7d797b34554219a9175aabcb,Dem Rep Claims Trump’s Immigration Policy Reflects a ‘White Supremacist Ideology’ While Grilling USCIS Chief -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 18:25:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-businessman-gets-prison-u-222554860.html,"A former California business executive was sentenced on Wednesday to two months in prison for taking part in a vast U.S. college admissions fraud scheme by paying $250,000 to secure his son's admission to the University of Southern California. Federal prosecutors in Boston had sought nine months in prison for Jeffrey Bizzack, who they said sought to secure his son's admission through a ""side door"" by agreeing to bribe a USC official to designate him as a fake athletic recruit. U.S. District Judge Douglas Woodlock said prosecutors lacked evidence to support some of their arguments for a higher sentence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lEh4n6Nu9abRf1foukH6Gw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/298583d99339cc271df308ca177e42f4,California businessman gets prison for U.S. college admissions scam -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:46:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/white-house-blocked-effort-condemn-204600202.html,"State department aide makes revelation in testimony, while Russia envoy nominee John Sullivan grilled at confirmation hearingDonald Trump with Vladimir Putin at the G20 summit in Osaka in June this year. Trump voiced concern over the 2018 capture but did not blame Moscow. Photograph: Mikhail Klimentyev/TassThe White House blocked the US state department from issuing a statement condemning Russia for seizing Ukrainian military vessels, according to a state department official, in the latest example of the strain the Trump administration is under in pursuing conflicting policies towards the two countries.The revelation on Wednesday came from Christopher Anderson, who was a senior aide to the special envoy on Ukraine, Kurt Volker, in November 2018, when Russia fired on and captured three Ukrainian vessels in the Sea of Azov off the Crimean peninsula.“While my colleagues at the state department quickly prepared a statement condemning Russia for its escalation, senior officials in the White House blocked it from being issued,” Anderson said in his prepared remarks to congressional committees holding impeachment hearings. “Ambassador Volker drafted a tweet condemning Russia’s actions, which I posted to his account.”In the face of silence from the White House, the then US ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, condemned Russian behaviour, after which the secretary of state, Mike Pompeo, followed suit. Trump voiced concern but did not blame Moscow.The 24 Ukrainian sailors detained in the operation were returned last month as part of a prisoner exchange.Anderson, and his successor in the Ukraine job, Catherine Croft, both testified to House committees on Wednesday about the role played by Trump’s personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, in foiling state department efforts to bolster the president, Volodymyr Zelenskiy, in the face of Russian military intervention in eastern Ukraine.In his testimony, Anderson quoted the former national security adviser, John Bolton, as saying: “Giuliani was a key voice with the president on Ukraine which could be an obstacle to increased White House engagement.” On Wednesday, the House committees asked Bolton to testify on 7 November, but it is unclear whether he will attend.Bolton’s former deputy, Charles Kupperman, is currently seeking a court ruling on whether to comply with his congressional subpoena in the face of a White House order not to testify.At the other side of Congress, the nominee to become ambassador to Russia, John Sullivan, faced pointed questions on Wednesday at confirmation hearings in the Senate about Giuliani and the split US policy towards Russia and Ukraine.Sullivan, currently the deputy secretary of state, said he was aware of Giuliani’s role in a campaign against the former US ambassador to Ukraine, Marie Yovanovitch. Asked if he knew Trump’s lawyer was “seeking to smear” Yovanovitch, he replied: “I believe he was, yes.”Sullivan confirmed he had been shown a dossier of material attacking Yovanovitch, saying it had provided by the White House to the state department legal adviser, but he was not aware it had been put together by Giuliani. He said the dossier “didn’t provide to me a basis for taking action against our ambassador”.He said that Pompeo gave Sullivan no explanation for the decision to recall Yovanovitch before the end of her posting, other than she had “lost the confidence of the president”.“As I understand, [Trump] may decide that he doesn’t like my testimony today and he doesn’t want me to go to Russia. The president can decide when he loses confidence in his ambassador – then that person is not going to continue as ambassador,” Sullivan said.Sullivan sought to avoid taking a position on the testimony by several former and current state department officials that the president, through Giuliani, had made a White House meeting and US military aid dependent on the Ukrainian government investigating Trump’s political rivals.“Soliciting investigations into a domestic political opponent – I don’t think that would be in accord with our values,” Sullivan said. But he would not confirm that was what the president had done.Democratic senators signaled that they were prepared to support Sullivan’s nomination as an experienced and respected diplomat, acknowledging the difficult position he was in. But they expressed concern he had not done more to find out what Trump and Giuliani were trying to achieve in Ukraine.The ranking Democrat on the Senate foreign relations committee, Bob Menendez, told Sullivan he had been playing the role of “see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.”“You’re going to go to Russia, and you’re going to be saying one set of things based upon your testimony here,” Menendez said. “And we have the president who, in his public statements, is totally aligned differently than what you’re going to be saying.”“Do you understand the incredibly difficult job that you’re going to have as a result of that?” Menendez asked Sullivan.“I would say, senator, you’ve cited the president’s statements. I’d cite the president’s actions,” the nominee replied, listing sanctions the administration had imposed on Russia.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/3dFxIoizaUY49lyZT_4bZQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/e71dc403755334597d5e870705964abd,"White House blocked effort to condemn Russia for seizing Ukraine ships, Congress told" -Case of school security guard who told student not to use N-word shows respect trumps race,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:42:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/case-school-security-guard-told-100011134.html,"Who am I, a white man, to police the racial language of my African American students? But, despite the queasy feeling, sometimes the answer is clear.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/o8VwD12CWsKdcI9wgrsaAA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0c35a4d27f9ac6c1e977e7ac1a1304fd,Case of school security guard who told student not to use N-word shows respect trumps race -A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:24:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-juul-executive-filed-lawsuit-062426154.html,"A former Juul executive alleged in a lawsuit that the company retaliated against him after he brought up concerns about bad products. Juul calls his claims ""baseless.""",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/xNrM5VZhBLcF5M.HjHILNQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/190f836d6e7a718397b1af34646c9f43,A former Juul executive filed a lawsuit alleging that the company shipped 1 million tainted pods to customers and retailers -Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:26:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/rachel-maddow-president-trump-did-232625976.html,MSNBC host Rachel Maddow joins Yahoo News Editor in Chief Daniel Klaidman and Chief Investigative Correspondent Michael Isikoff to discuss whether the House Foreign Relations Committee should consider other things Trump has done similar to the Ukraine phone call and fold it into the investigation.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/sXd3MEc22T6cGd2oI.zXtg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://s.yimg.com/os/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/883f2470-fb6c-11e9-b9bd-c17b2993f6f2,Rachel Maddow on President Trump: ‘He did ask China to investigate Biden too’ -View Photos of the 2020 Hyundai Palisade vs. 2020 Kia Telluride,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:59:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/view-photos-2020-hyundai-palisade-175900825.html,,,View Photos of the 2020 Hyundai Palisade vs. 2020 Kia Telluride -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:57:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-cia-director-brennan-votes-015733357.html,"Former CIA Director John Brennan said on Wednesday that at least some American voters were swayed as a result of Russia's 2016 election interference operation, a statement that went further than the official assessments of U.S. intelligence agencies and lawmakers. “How many, in which states, I don’t know.",,Former CIA Director Brennan: Votes were swayed by Russian influence operation -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:32:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/vindman-reportedly-testified-trump-thought-023200283.html,"During his testimony before House investigators on Tuesday, Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman, the National Security Council's top Ukraine expert, said President Trump was under the impression that a different person -- a longtime staffer of Rep. Devin Nunes (R-Calif.) -- actually held his position, people familiar with his testimony told Politico. Vindman said that Kashyap Patel ""misrepresented"" himself, and despite having no experience or expertise on Ukraine, was part of the White House's Ukraine policy discussion, Politico reports. Vindman found this out after he attended Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky's inauguration in May, and was preparing to give Trump a debriefing on the event and Zelensky's plans for the future, he reportedly testified. Vindman revealed that ""at the last second,"" his boss at the time, Fiona Hill, told him not to attend the debriefing because it might confuse Trump, who thought Patel was the top Ukraine expert.Patel, Nunes' top staffer on the House Intelligence Committee, was known for trying to discredit Justice Department and FBI officials who investigated Russian meddling in the 2016 election, Politico reports. He joined the White House in February, and in July, was promoted to a senior counterterrorism role. Hill testified earlier this month that Trump thought Patel was in charge of the National Security Council's Ukraine policy, Politico says.Vindman, who told investigators he's never had a conversation with Patel, also said he was told Patel ignored National Security Council procedures and put negative information about Ukraine in front of Trump, which reinforced his belief that the country was corrupt, Politico reports. It's unclear where he received this information. Read more at Politico.",,Vindman reportedly testified Trump thought Devin Nunes' inexperienced former staffer was a top Ukraine expert -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:50:37 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-accused-republicans-trying-trick-115037056.html,"In a closed-door deposition, Republicans questioned Lt. Col. Vindman on whom he had discussed trump's Ukraine call with, alarming Democrats.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qN4ONngqfmq8d.vUl27giA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/81772143405c0f5364cae32715593259,Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:42:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-impeachment-official-says-she-173641664.html,"A US government official has reportedly told politicians leading the impeachment hearings against Donald Trump that she was urged by a Republican-linked lobbyist to remove the US ambassador to Ukraine from her post, as the president's allies launched a smear campaign against her.Catherine Croft, a Ukraine expert who worked at the US State Department, said she was repeatedly contacted by lobbyist Robert Livingston about ousting Marie Yovanovitch, according to prepared remarks obtained by NPR.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/nVkJygcXB2.gOJuTGtcu3g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/73445d843f38e1903d61cd077fea3e46,Trump impeachment: Official says she was repeatedly urged to oust Ukraine ambassador by Republican lobbyist -"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:05:30 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/special-report-working-class-hong-120530805.html,"From the top of Lion Rock, all of Hong Kong reveals itself: the sprawl of the Kowloon Peninsula directly below, the iconic Star Ferry plying the waters of Victoria Harbor, the moneyed heights of Hong Kong island beyond. In the shadow of the revered mountain rise huge monoliths, drab concrete tower blocks far removed from the glittering glass highrises of Hong Kong island's steroidal skyline. Here, in a neighborhood of public housing estates called Wong Tai Sin, seemingly endless stacks of aging windows heave with drying laundry and hum with air conditioners sweating droplets onto the pavement below.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F9Ge8Jbxe9MBf8mEm7JaUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/6360044a87d60947847b5654efb286ca,"Special Report: In a working-class Hong Kong neighborhood, the protests hit home" -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:50:37 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/democrats-accused-republicans-trying-trick-115037056.html,"In a closed-door deposition, Republicans questioned Lt. Col. Vindman on whom he had discussed trump's Ukraine call with, alarming Democrats.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qN4ONngqfmq8d.vUl27giA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/81772143405c0f5364cae32715593259,Democrats accused Republicans of trying to trick an impeachment witness into naming the whistleblower -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 22:21:41 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-fires-blaze-near-la-progress-north-172017793.html,"Firefighters in California struggled to contain a new fast-moving blaze on Wednesday that threatened thousands of homes and the Ronald Reagan Presidential Library, as rare ""extreme"" red flag warnings were issued for much of the Los Angeles region. The so-called Easy Fire in the Simi Valley northwest of Los Angeles erupted around 6:00 am, forcing the evacuation of the library and nearby homes as it spread to more than 1,500 acres (526 hectares), officials said. ""The fire outflanked us very rapidly, pushed by those 40 to 50 mile-per-hour winds,"" Ventura County Fire Assistant Chief Chad Cook told reporters.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FSosbjifMKMbPiDiPJpodw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/0825d6326f2d1f6b043aa3422f967fdf6e1d8c81.jpg,California fires: new blazes as dangerous winds fan the flames -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -Why are California's wildfires different this year?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:40:27 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-californias-wildfires-different-214027211.html,"Destructive wildfires have ripped through California, threatening homes and famous landmarks, and forcing power outages that have plunged millions into darkness. Everything from climate change to corporate negligence has been blamed for the chaos, which has seen hundreds of thousands evacuated, and hundreds of structures destroyed. The 20 worst California wildfires on record all destroyed over 500 structures, or burned 140,000 acres, according to state agency Cal Fire.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/rK0tn.isV_ixOwA4qkP.SA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/8196d2d31aca9e943e8cb211557a579998becec6.jpg,Why are California's wildfires different this year? -"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:20:14 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/homeless-deaths-la-county-double-202014816.html,"The county’s public health department has reported 1,047 deaths for last year, a number that has increased steadily since 2013A woman pushes a cart full of her belongings past tents near Skid Row in downtown Los Angeles. Photograph: Frederic J Brown/AFP/Getty ImagesMore than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county in 2018, double the number of deaths from six years ago. The increase is a stark illustration of the region’s severe housing crisis, advocates said.The LA county public health department reported this week that 1,047 homeless people died last year, a number that has steadily increased every year since 2013, when 536 people died. The leading causes of death were coronary heart disease, which accounted for 22% of deaths, followed by alcohol and drug overdose at 21%, transportation-related injuries at 9%, homicides at 6% and suicides at 5%.The data sheds light on a worsening public health emergency in the county, where officials estimate there are now 59,000 people homeless, including more than 44,000 people who are living unsheltered – in cars, tents, or makeshift quarters. The report also follows a string of high-profile attacks against homeless people in the area, including the killing of Darrell Fields, a beloved musician who was burned to death in his tent on Skid Row.“We’ve got three people a day dying on the streets,” said Adam Rice, an organizer with Los Angeles Community Action Network (LA Can), a group that had worked closely with Fields. “It is a complete failure of leadership. Darrell didn’t need to die. None of these people needed to die. The reason this is happening is because there’s not proper housing.”Darrell Fields, 62, was a homeless man in Los Angeles known as Mr Guitar. He was killed in August when his tent was set ablaze. Photograph: Los Angeles Community Action NetworkSoaring rents and a major shortage of affordable housing have pushed people out of their homes in the area, with more than half of unsheltered adults in a recent count saying they were experiencing homelessness for the first time. The county estimated that there are now 8,800 homeless families.“It brings an overwhelming sadness when you think about precious human beings dying in our streets when it can be avoided,” said the Rev Andy Bales, CEO of Union Rescue Mission (URM), which runs a shelter at Skid Row, at the epicenter of the crisis in downtown LA.The county’s analysis also found that the mortality rate among homeless people has also jumped: “Put simply, being homeless in LA county is becoming increasingly deadly,” the agency wrote.The increase in overdoses represented the largest jump in terms of causes of death, the report found. In addition, the mortality rate among white homeless people has decreased while the rate of deaths for black and Latino residents has increased, the county said. Overall, African Americans are four times more likely to experience homelessness in LA county than other groups.Of the transportation-related deaths, which include vehicle and train collisions, 82% of victims were pedestrians and cyclists.The county and local clinics have increasingly sent healthcare workers to encampments to try to serve people on the streets. More than 21,000 homeless people were also placed in housing last year, an increase from 2017, officials reported early this year.The health department report this week recommended more direct outreach to homeless people, the creation of a “death review team” to study the subject and more traffic safety measures near encampments.Bales predicted that medical visits were not enough to reverse the deadly trends: “What we need most is for everyone to be immediately under a roof and protected from the elements. Until that happens, the death rates will continue to grow … and more and more people will be devastated by homelessness.”The crisis demanded a more urgent response, he added: “How much evidence do we need to gather before we decide not to let another human being die on the street?”LA’s homeless crisis has recently received national attention, with the Trump administration suggesting it could pursue some kind of law enforcement crackdown, drawing skepticism from some local organizations. Advocates have criticized efforts to further criminalize people living on the streets and have argued that the government needs to put more funding to housing and shelter.“It’s really a travesty when you think about it. How many deaths could’ve been prevented?” said Kourtney Milligan, a 29-year-old homeless woman, who has lived on Skid Row. “The resources that they say are out there are so hard to find.”",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/s2XrfBGfKBrVbz9mGlm7bg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/f15aa3ae803200f5d01035f9967bdb02,"More than 1,000 homeless people died in Los Angeles county last year" -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:39:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/sen-kamala-harris-slash-staff-213949543.html,"Kamala Harris is dramatically restructuring her campaign by redeploying staffers to Iowa and laying off dozens of aides at her Baltimore headquarters, according to campaign sources and a memo obtained by Politico Wednesday, as she struggles to resuscitate her beleaguered presidential bid.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IfM5RBFcZKnTvYil5a9opg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314500-1572471482597.jpg,"Sen. Kamala Harris to slash staff, restructure campaign as she hemorrhages cash" -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire -Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:34:08 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/exclusive-lebanons-hariri-defied-hezbollah-193408237.html,"After hitting a dead end in efforts to defuse the crisis sweeping Lebanon, Saad al-Hariri informed a top Hezbollah official on Monday he had no choice but to quit as prime minister in defiance of the powerful Shi'ite group. The decision by the Sunni leader shocked Hussein al-Khalil, political advisor to Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, who advised him against giving in to protesters who wanted to see his coalition government toppled. The meeting described to Reuters by four senior sources from outside Hariri's Future Party captures a critical moment in the crisis that has swept Lebanon for the last two weeks as Hariri yielded to the massive street protests against the ruling elite.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/6t0QrsMq7.t998bmUlxrwg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/f866c2aeaf231d9d1cf6e6e69568619a,Exclusive: How Lebanon's Hariri defied Hezbollah -Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:54:52 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/navy-upholds-sentencing-navy-seal-203428988.html,"The U.S. chief of naval operations on Tuesday denied a request for clemency and upheld a military jury's sentence that will reduce the rank of a decorated Navy SEAL convicted of posing with a dead Islamic State captive in Iraq in 2017. Adm. Mike Gilday made the decision after carefully reviewing the trial transcripts and the clemency request by the lawyers of Edward Gallagher, said Cmdr. Nate Christensen, spokesman for Gilday, in a statement. Gallagher's lawyer, Timothy Parlatore, said they are disappointed in the ruling that will cost Gallagher up to $200,000 in retirement funds because of his loss of rank from a chief petty officer to a 1st class petty officer.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.BfAViVO_SJNCk88Voi.HA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/aa80b6e08b7f94e4b95f358d86e4650d,Navy upholds sentencing of Navy SEAL for posing with corpse -China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:16:32 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-pushes-higher-moral-quality-citizens-111632380.html,"From budgeting for rural weddings to dressing appropriately and avoiding online porn, China's Communist Party has issued new guidelines to improve the ""moral quality"" of its citizens. Officials have released several sets of guidelines this week alongside a secretive conclave of high-ranking officials in Beijing which discusses the country's future direction. Public institutions like libraries and youth centres must carry out ""targeted moral education"" to improve people's ideological awareness and moral standards, according to the rules.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ZE0do86B_pp.U8xiGOzXyg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/9a1246fa0db9bf5eda51ca134b6d72d00140d45d.jpg,China pushes higher 'moral quality' for its citizens -"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 13:17:36 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/record-wave-lone-child-migrants-122133758.html,"TENOSIQUE, Mexico -- The United States has detained more children trying to cross the nation's southwest border on their own over the last year than during any other period on record, surpassing the surge of unaccompanied minors that set off a crisis during the Obama administration, according to new figures released Tuesday.U.S. immigration authorities apprehended 76,020 minors, most of them from Central America, traveling without their parents in the fiscal year that ended in September -- 52% more than during the last fiscal year, according to U.S. Customs and Border Protection.Mexico is experiencing the same surge. Under pressure from the Trump administration, President Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador stepped up immigration enforcement and detained about 40,500 underage migrants traveling north without their parents in the same period -- pushing the total number of these children taken into custody in the region to more than 115,000.In interviews, nearly two dozen children who were heading toward the United States said they knew the trip was dangerous -- and that if they were caught they could end up in overcrowded, dirty facilities on both sides of the border, without adequate food, water or health care. But they took their chances anyway, looking to escape dead-end poverty, violence and a lack of opportunities to study or work, despite President Donald Trump's aggressive efforts to block immigration through the southwest border.""These are numbers that no immigration system in the world can handle, not even in this country,"" Mark Morgan, the acting commissioner of U.S. Customs and Border Protection, told reporters. ""And each month during the fiscal year, the numbers increased. You saw them. We all saw them.""The young migrants came alongside a historic wave of families traveling together, also largely from Central America. They travel by foot, hitch rides or climb onto trains, carrying only what they can fit in tattered backpacks, and face a staggering array of threats, from thieves and rapists to hunger, loneliness and death.Marvel, a 16-year-old Honduran boy, said he had been on the road for weeks when, somewhere in Guatemala, he came upon a cluster of roadside graves: the final resting place of other migrants who had died on their journey north. He was alone and far from home. Fear crawled up his spine. But he thought of the gang threats he faced -- and he pressed on.""Quitting was not an option,"" Marvel said, giving only his first name for fear of gang retribution. ""You wipe your tears and carry on.""For the young migrants, the risks at home outweigh the potential dangers of the road. Most are teenage boys, though girls and children also attempt the trip. For Marvel, the decision to leave came when a gang in his hometown, Olancho, told him that if he did not join their ranks, they'd kill him and his family. There was no doubt they were serious, Marvel said. Gang members had already murdered his older brother.His parents encouraged him to leave, Marvel said. ""We can't bear losing another son,"" they told him. ""You have to go.""He left home in the spring, with $40 in his pocket and no plan except to find work in a safer place.As for most underage migrants traveling without their parents, his trip north has been a feat of improvisation and courage. He walked and hitchhiked through Honduras and Guatemala. He slept in churches, under trees or wherever he found himself when night fell.Along the way, he gathered crucial bits of information from fellow migrants: the best route to take, locations of shelters up ahead, places to avoid, where to forage for food.As huge numbers of young migrants from Central America began arriving at the United States' southern border in 2014, the Obama administration scrambled to house them until they could be released to sponsors -- adults who applied to care for them. The shelter system grew dramatically as a result.The Trump administration experienced similar backups at the border just a few years later -- this time because of new, more stringent policies that made the sponsors themselves, who are often undocumented, vulnerable to immigration authorities. This discouraged people from coming forward, leaving thousands of children to languish in the system.The Trump administration has also sought to deter migration by separating thousands of children from their relatives, again driving up the number of children in federally contracted shelters.On the road, while trying to avoid detention, fear and hunger are constant companions for many young migrants.With little or no money in their pockets, they relied on strangers for snacks or meals. They pawed through garbage and scanned drifts of debris on the roadside, hoping to spot an edible morsel.Wilson, a 17-year-old Honduran, said he had feasted on rotten mangos discarded by street vendors.""I used to drink water from potholes when I was too thirsty,"" interjected Mario Leonel, 16, who left home in San Pedro Sula, Honduras, several weeks ago without notifying his parents. ""That is the hardest part of it all: the hunger.""When he arrived at the shelter in Tenosique, a small Mexican town near the Guatemala border, he called his parents in Honduras, who burst into tears and pleaded for him to return. He said no. He was tired of all the violence in his country, and wanted to get asylum in the United States.After Marvel slipped across the Guatemala-Mexico border in May, he found room at a shelter in Tenosique, which serves as a transit point for many migrants. He quickly made new friends among other teenage migrants who had made it this far, mainly from Honduras, but also from Guatemala and El Salvador.On a recent afternoon, several of them gathered in a two-story building that had been reserved for minors, its walls painted with colorful animal murals. The boys cracked jokes, roughhoused and argued about who was the cutest girl in the shelter.Outside, Dulce, a 16-year-old transgender migrant from Guatemala, sat alone on train tracks pining for a boy she had met at the shelter. He had left without explanation and she was lovesick.""I just can't get him out of my mind,"" she said.She left her hometown four months earlier to escape abuse from her family and strangers, including a sexual assault by gang members when she was 12. She made it as far as central Mexico before being detained and deported. Five days after returning home, she set off again.""I left because I had nothing there and no one to protect me,"" she said. ""At least here I am safe.""Though the United States remains the destination of choice for most unaccompanied minors, an increasing number are setting their sights no farther than Mexico, advocates and migrants say.Sometimes they have no choice: Mexico's increased enforcement measures have made it more difficult for migrants to make it to the border with the United States. And even if they reach the United States, recent policies have drastically lowered the possibilities of getting asylum.In Mexico, when unaccompanied minors are detained, the law mandates that they be released right away into the custody of the national child protection agency, which finds them accommodation in shelters designed for children.But migrants' advocates say the government has been holding children in the nation's overcrowded detention centers for far too long, and that some children are quickly funneled into the deportation process rather than being given a fair chance to seek asylum or some other form of relief.""No child should ever be held at a detention center,"" said Elba Coria, a migration expert from the Clinic for Refugees at the Ibero-American University in Mexico City. ""But while international standards consider children's detention as an exceptional measure, amid Mexico's migration chaos, it is the rule.""Neither Marvel nor any of his new friends in the Tenosique shelter had been detained by the authorities. All had managed to cross into Mexico from Guatemala and had applied for asylum in Mexico after talking through their options with the shelter staff.They now plan to remain in Mexico and look for work and study opportunities -- even if they haven't abandoned hope of making it to the United States.""It is every Honduran's boy dream to get to the United States, where there is more money and kids are able to go to school,"" said Jose Angel, 17. He was born with a disability that left him unable to use his arms and left his hometown because his grandmother could no longer take care of him.He was hopeful he could apply for asylum in the United States despite Trump's many efforts to severely lower the number of people granted asylum. ""It is scary, but you have to take a chance,"" he said.On a recent morning, Alan, a 17-year-old Guatemalan migrant, sat on the sidewalk outside a migrant shelter in the city of Palenque, in southern Mexico. He had just crossed the border and was exhausted. Mexican immigration officials had stopped a bus he was on, but he managed to escape into the countryside and hide.Alan planned to take a nap, shower and have a meal before trying illegally to board a freight train known as The Beast. It runs from Mexico's border with Guatemala to its border with the United States and, for decades, migrants have clung to it to speed through much of Mexico.His hope was to make it to the U.S. border and petition for asylum. He was undeterred by Trump's recent efforts to restrict asylum claims or curb immigration.""One way or another, I have to make it to the other side where there are skyscrapers and life is better,"" he said.This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/5ol82jExNHqBHa7IGzz2mw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_new_york_times_articles_158/03f35d3f9d537a8dc9fe503d06c098de,"A Record Wave of Lone Child Migrants, Born of Desperation" -Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:14:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/denmark-snubs-trump-approval-russian-141104626.html,"(Bloomberg) -- In a major boost for Russia’s effort to tighten its grip over natural gas supplies to western Europe, Denmark said it will allow the controversial Nord Stream 2 pipeline to pass through its territory.The decision removes the last important hurdle for the $11 billion project, which is slated for commissioning by the end of this year and bolster gas flows from Siberia into Germany. The link has drawn the threat of sanctions from the U.S., which wants Europe to buy its liquefied natural gas. It risks reigniting a feud between Donald Trump and Danish lawmakers that erupted in the summer after the U.S. president’s offer to buy Greenland.Russian President Vladimir Putin welcomed the pipeline decision. “Denmark showed itself to be a responsible participant in international relations, defending its interests and sovereignty and the interests of its main partners in Europe,” he told a briefing in Budapest, where he was on a visit.The green light gives Gazprom PJSC, Russia’s gas export champion and already Europe’s biggest supplier, yet another route to one of the world’s most liquid gas markets. While Trump has accused Russia of using its natural gas as a political weapon, it’s ultimately a commercial deal over which Washington has little influence, according to Raffaello Pantucci, Director of Security Studies at the Royal United Services Institute in London.“It’s frankly too far advanced,” Pantucci said. “Who are they going to sanction?”The approval also gives Russia more clout in ongoing talks with Ukraine on a new gas transit deal, increasing the risk of a disruption from Jan. 1. Uncertainty about whether those two nations can agree on time has been weighing on forward prices in Europe and sending incentives for traders to stockpile gas as a cushion against disruption.“If Gazprom are confident in Nord Stream 2’s imminent completion, it may encourage a tougher negotiating stance on any new Ukrainian transit deal,” said John Twomey, a gas analyst at BloombergNEF in London. “If anything, the risks of a disruption on Jan. 1 have gone up as a result of this.”The pipeline has divided EU governments, with nations led by Poland concerned about the bloc’s increasing dependence on Russian gas.“It is not too late to stop NS2,” an official at the U.S. embassy in Germany said. “There are clear negative energy security and geopolitical implications for Europe from Putin’s pipeline. The U.S. government agrees with the European Parliament, the U.S. House and nearly 20 European countries in our opposition to NS2.”Russia, Ukraine, Europe Pledge New Gas Deal by Year-EndDenmark said on Wednesday it will allow the pipeline to pass southeast of the island of Bornholm in the Baltic Sea. The company behind the pipeline submitted the route plan in April. Denmark had been conducting a security and environmental review of the project.Trump had objected to the link, instead urging the European Union to diversify the sources of its energy and dilute Putin’s economic influence over the region. U.S. officials have also warned that project partners are at an elevated risk of U.S. sanctions.The approval is another snub of Trump by the Nordic country after it ruled out his proposal to buy Greenland this summer. The president responded by canceling a state visit to Denmark.The Danish approval covers 147 kilometers (91 miles) of the project. Nord Stream 2 said in its statement that it has already completed 87%, or 2,100 kilometers, of the pipeline in Russian, Finnish and Swedish waters as well as most of the German part. Dan Jorgensen, Denmark’s minister for climate, energy and utilities, declined to comment on Wednesday.Nord Stream 2 said it will continue its “constructive cooperation with the Danish authorities to complete the pipeline.”Six WeeksGazprom CEO Alexey Miller said that the pipeline is expected to be completed on time by the end of the year. “The remaining 147 kilometers -- that’s five weeks of work,” Miller told reporters in Budapest.A statement from the company highlighted some uncertainties in that timetable. Nord Stream 2 said Wednesday the actual start of the construction depends on a number of legal, technical and environmental factors, which will “take a few weeks” and the project aims for completion “in the coming months.”Gazprom can’t use the permit for the next four weeks when all involved parties have leeway to make a complaint under Danish law. Those issues left analysts anticipating some delay beyond Jan. 1 for the completion of the link.“It’s unlikely that Nord Stream 2 is online in time for Jan. 1, so Ukrainian transit disruption risks remains,” said Twomey.While Gazprom owns the pipeline, half the financing of the 8 billion-euro capital cost comes from five European companies: Uniper SE and Wintershall of Germany, OMV AG of Austria, Engie SA of France and Royal Dutch Shell Plc.Dutch gas for the first quarter declined to the lowest since at least 2017 as the region is oversupplied with the fuel, storage sites across Europe are full, and LNG imports surge.(Updates with Putin comment in third paragraph.)\--With assistance from Dina Khrennikova, Vanessa Dezem and Ilya Arkhipov.To contact the reporters on this story: Morten Buttler in Copenhagen at mbuttler@bloomberg.net;William Wilkes in Frankfurt at wwilkes1@bloomberg.net;Anna Shiryaevskaya in London at ashiryaevska@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Christian Wienberg at cwienberg@bloomberg.net, ;Tasneem Hanfi Brögger at tbrogger@bloomberg.net, ;Nick Rigillo at nrigillo@bloomberg.net, Gregory L. White, Reed LandbergFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/pmp.QDGzPx.1oKmff1YXyw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/8d050649bb239d85b781523be18851b7,Denmark Snubs Trump With Approval of Russian Gas Pipe to Europe -Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me!,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 12:39:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/meghan-mccain-spars-cory-booker-163901660.html,"During a Wednesday interview with Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker, The View’s Meghan McCain did what she apparently does best: Make the conversation about herself and, in this case, her personal beef with a presidential hopeful.After applauding Booker for saying Medicare for All is unrealistic, the conservative View co-host took issue with the New Jersey senator’s support for mandatory gun buybacks. This then prompted McCain to lump Booker in with former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke, who has made buybacks a central focus of his campaign.“When I heard you and Beto say that, to me, that’s like a left-wing fever dream,” McCain said. “And I want to know how you think you and Beto are going to go to red states and go to my brother’s house and get his AR-15s because, let me tell you, he’s not giving it back.”Booker, meanwhile, asserted he is not nearly where O’Rourke is when it comes to gun buybacks, causing McCain to reply, “Good! Because he’s crazy!”“We should watch the way we talk about each other,” Booker shot back. “Seriously, we can’t tear the character of people down. We have different beliefs.”McCain, however, invoked her ongoing feud with the one-time Texas Senate candidate, complaining that O’Rourke “has no problem doing it to me.”“He was very nasty to me about this,” the ex-Fox News star lamented.Last month, reacting to McCain’s overt warning that gun buybacks would lead to “a lot of violence” from gun owners, O’Rourke said “that kind of language and rhetoric is not helpful” and it could become “self-fulfilling” and give permission to violence.“You and I both know that just because somebody does something to us, doesn’t mean we show the same thing back to them,” Booker responded to McCain, garnering audience applause.“I’m not running for president, with all due respect,” McCain snapped back. “And the way he talks about me inciting violence on this, I take very seriously and I speak for a lot of red state Americans whether he likes it or you like it or not, there’s a lot of Republicans you have to win over.”The New Jersey lawmaker reacted by telling McCain that her voice was one he respected before noting that “what we say about other people says more about us than it does about them.”Booker would then go on to relay an anecdote from the campaign trail in which he defused a voter’s call for violence against President Donald Trump. McCain, meanwhile, brushed it aside and went back to pressing Booker on his buyback proposal and how he’s going to take her brother’s guns.After a bit more back-and-forth over Booker's gun proposals, host Whoopi Goldberg jumped in to send the show to a commercial break, promising the pair that they’d continue the conversation in the next segment.“No we’re not,” McCain grumbled. “It’s fine.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/81Gc.W3SCBrS344rzVAhWQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/feba113ade389d4b7b530f460116943d,Meghan McCain Spars With Cory Booker Over Civility: Beto Was ‘Very Nasty’ to Me! -Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:05:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/elizabeth-warren-untenable-plans-140521979.html,"If you’ve been having trouble finding someone to walk your dog, don’t worry. Any day now, Elizabeth Warren will announce “a plan for that.” It will undoubtedly be comprehensive, detailed, and replete with subsidies for lower- and middle-class dog walkers and underserved breeds. It will cost tens of billions of dollars and will receive widespread positive notice from the media. However, to judge by her other recent plans, the one thing it won’t include is any discussion of how she plans to pay for it.The Massachusetts senator has challenged and possibly overtaken former vice president Joe Biden as the front-runner for the Democratic nomination, largely based on having a plan for the government to tackle every problem facing this country, no matter how big or how small, from issues with military housing to Puerto Rican debt to climate change.The price tag for this massive expansion of government is enormous. Much of the attention in recent weeks has been focused on Warren’s embrace of Medicare for All, which she refuses to admit would require an increase in middle-class taxes. Even Vermont senator Bernie Sanders has conceded that such proposals, which would cost $30–40 trillion over 10 years, cannot be financed without tax hikes. Warren’s refusal to address this obvious fact makes her look less like a would-be policy wonk and more like a typical politician.But even setting aside Medicare for All, Warren’s plans are likely to dump oceans of red ink onto our growing national debt. Her non-health-care spending proposals already total some $7.5 trillion per year over the next 10 years. Although these are not quite Bernie levels of government largesse, her proposals would still require nearly double our current levels of spending.To pay for all this, Warren proposes a variety of tax hikes, mostly designed to hit corporations or high-earners: higher payroll taxes for those earning more than $250,000 per year; a 7 percent profits tax on companies earning more than $100 million; a 60 percent lobbying tax on firms that spend a million or more on lobbying, and so forth. But the biggest chunk of money would come from Warren’s proposed “wealth tax,” a 2 to 3 percent levy on net worth above $50 million. Warren estimates that this wealth tax will pull in more than $2.75 trillion over ten years. It won’t.First, there is the slight problem that a wealth tax is probably unconstitutional. Of course, constitutional constraints are quaint notions in the Age of Trump. Regardless, it is worth noting that the Constitution permits the federal government to impose only “direct taxes,” such as a property tax. That’s why it required a constitutional amendment to enact the federal income tax. Many constitutional scholars warn that a wealth tax is neither a direct tax nor income tax.Even if Warren can find a way around the constitutional guardrails -- perhaps by something such as a retrospective wealth tax in which you wait until a taxpayer sells assets or passes away -- a wealth tax is unlikely to raise anywhere near the amount of money she predicts.Simply look at Europe’s experiments with wealth taxes. At one time, a dozen European countries imposed wealth taxes. Today, all but three have abandoned those levies. Among those repealing their wealth tax are the Scandinavian social democracies that Warren admires, Denmark, Finland, and Sweden. Norway retains a wealth tax but has significantly reduced it in recent years. Additional countries abandoning the tax include Austria, France, Germany, Iceland, Ireland, Luxembourg, and the Netherlands. Other countries, such as Great Britain, have considered wealth taxes and rejected them.They did so because wealth taxes are administratively complex and difficult to enforce. Also, they significantly reduce investment, entrepreneurship, and, ultimately, economic growth. According to the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development, European wealth taxes raised, on average, only about 0.2 percent of GDP in revenues. By comparison, the U.S. federal income tax raises 8 percent of GDP.Two groups, however, would benefit substantially from a wealth tax. The tax would be a full-employment opportunity for the tax-preparation industry and for lawyers. After all, we would now have to determine fair market value for everything from homes and vehicles to artwork and jewelry to family pension rights and intellectual property. The other big winner would be lobbyists, who could be expected to descend on Washington en masse seeking exemptions and exceptions for their clients. If you think the tax code is a mess today, just wait until D.C. is done with Warren’s plan.There is an old Yiddish proverb that goes “Mann tracht, un Gott Lacht,” or “Man plans, and God laughs.” It is all well and good that Senator Warren has a plan for everything. But until she actually figures out how to pay for everything without crippling our economy, such plans really don’t add up.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/t_XOfhQ2Q8pn0Eihbaza4g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/710b4188b8e44ebd02c332c03dfb8d66,Elizabeth Warren’s Untenable Plans -Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:38:20 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tulsi-gabbard-says-she-wants-213820125.html,"""Those who follow the Bush-Clinton doctrine believe the only way to interact with other nations is by bombing them or starving them with draconian sanctions,"" Gabbard wrote.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/LTsVQgKWLWZB4CqZTWrCmw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/600ec926c903a4a4b13b802ec6b46cdb,Tulsi Gabbard says she wants to defeat the 'Bush-Clinton doctrine' on foreign policy -"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 06:41:15 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/londons-gatwick-airport-testing-technology-104115844.html,"The major UK airport is running a two-month trial on some EasyJet flights. It uses screens to call single seat numbers, for maximum efficiency.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/qEijHOtPy58PeTkXPYzxUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2b6e3e95c321320da3e59c71273b6214,"London's Gatwick airport is testing out new technology to board passengers by individual seat, which could be faster and avoid long lines" -Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 07:17:19 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/tucker-carlson-guest-blame-diversity-032855316.html,"Fox NewsFox News host Tucker Carlson and his guest, conservative YouTube personality Dave Rubin, both insisted Tuesday night that the wildfires burning across California are due largely to progressive ideology, “woke” culture, and diversity in hiring.During Tuesday’s broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, Carlson welcomed on Rubin, a political commentator and podcaster, to discuss the issues surrounding the large fires engulfing the state, including those related to the electrical grid and firefighting methods.“PG&E; strikes me as almost a metaphor for the destruction of the state,” Carlson said about the state’s power company. “Here’s the utility which doesn’t really know anything about its own infrastructure but knows everything about the race of its employees. How did we get there?”After noting that he lives near one of the fires in the Los Angeles area, Rubin immediately took aim at liberal politics as the main reason the wildfires have grown so large and dangerous.“The problem right now is that everything, EVERYTHING, from academia to public utilities to politics, everything that goes woke, that buys into this ridiculous progressive ideology that cares about what contractors are LGBT or how many black firemen we have or white this or Asian that, everything that goes that road eventually breaks down,” he declared.As Carlson nodded and said “that’s true,” Rubin continued, complaining that this isn’t how “freedom is supposed to operate.”“What is supposed to happen—imagine if your house was on fire,” he added. “Would you care what the public utility or what the fire company, what contractor they brought in, what gender or sexuality or any of those things he or she was? It’s just absolutely ridiculous.”The Fox News host continued to agree with Rubin, who went on to tie PG&E;’s preemptive blackouts to a lack of “libertarian or conservative-minded people in California to fight what the progressives are doing to the state.”“If you can’t keep the lights on and you can’t keep the place from burning down, you’ve reached the point where there is no kind of lying about it anymore,” Carlson concluded. “It’s falling apart. It’s a disaster. It’s not civilized anymore.”Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oc7JrQDZj0IZOpRjD0G9vQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/a516007c9de1e3ef686c7ad67733b86b,Tucker Carlson and Guest Blame Diversity and ‘Woke’ Culture for California Fires -House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-just-trying-invalidate-204801176.html,"Speaker Nancy Pelosi is subverting rule of law, write former acting U.S. Attorney General Matt Whitaker and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MGT2aYJqXPpSggMHdqCSjQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/f10e6dccc6001a477aee232345831d48,House Democrats are just trying to invalidate the 2016 election of President Donald Trump -Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 14:16:48 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/putin-faces-syria-money-crunch-181648887.html,Russian President Vladimir Putin is facing an unwelcome new financial challenge in Syria after the U.S. pullback enabled his ally Bashar Assad to reclaim the biggest chunk of territory in the country still outside his control.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/lMrHFDsIkI7Fox9yV.Y3sg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314462-1572459101621.jpg,Putin faces Syria money crunch after U.S. keeps control of oil fields -Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/georgia-prepares-execute-man-store-051856382.html,"With about eight hours to spare before a man convicted of killing a convenience store clerk was to be put to death Wednesday, Georgia's highest court stepped in and temporarily halted the execution. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, was to receive a lethal injection at 7 p.m. Wednesday at the state prison in Jackson. Cromartie was convicted of malice murder and sentenced to death for the April 1994 killing of 50-year-old Richard Slysz in Thomasville, just inside Georgia's southern border.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EmikQ7myqycdMUJmq_DFFg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/2c24f8d92d6bc690e8791a5020568b60,Georgia Supreme Court temporarily halts man's execution -Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:12:51 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/michelle-obama-says-white-americans-141036926.html,"Former first lady reflects on her experience of white flight in Chicago and says ‘when we moved in, white families moved out’Michelle Obama said: ‘I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running.’ Photograph: Scott Olson/Getty ImagesMichelle Obama has said that white Americans are “still running” from their non-white fellow citizens during a summit in which she detailed how her own experience of white flight unfolded during her upbringing on Chicago’s South Side.“We were doing everything we were supposed to do – and better,” the former first lady told attendees at the third annual Obama Foundation Summit, reported the Chicago Sun-Times as she talked about her childhood. “But when we moved in, white families moved out.”“I want to remind white folks that y’all were running from us. And you’re still running,” she also said, reportedly making a comparison between white flight and what immigrant families experience when they settle in US neighborhoods.At the meeting, Michelle Obama reportedly touted the benefits of building the Obama Presidential Center on 19.3 acres in historic Jackson Park on Chicago’s South Side. She said the project would feature a museum, library, gym, and forum.“Barack and I wouldn’t bring some crap up in our neighborhood,” she reportedly said. She pointed out that she hails from the area by birth and that her husband Barack comes from South Side by choice.During his speech at the forum, Barack Obama said: “We joke about it a little bit, like this is the mothership.”While they hope the center could anchor a potential economic revival in the area, there have been setbacks.Opponents of the project are pursuing a federal court appeal after losing a lawsuit. Federal authorities must also review the project, as Jackson Park is listed on the National Register of Historic Places. In December, this review will have already spanned two years. It remains unclear when the review will end, according to the newspaper.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tFDCT6hUI0Fhi3FSuxO5rg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/24358efb38f77e111169ab61cdc08cbb,Michelle Obama says white Americans 'still running' from black neighbors -2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame?,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:46:18 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/2-women-held-criminally-responsible-194618547.html,Experts told Insider they could not recall a similar instance of a man being charged with manslaughter in connection with his partner's suicide.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vDBjNfTtthApCA7Had7Jxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/4cb2c0cb41a84b7d16f125218324726b,2 women have been criminally charged over their partners' suicides. Why do men escape the same blame? -"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 23:30:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/cia-backed-afghan-units-carry-033024655.html,"Afghan security units backed by the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) have carried out extrajudicial executions, enforced disappearances, indiscriminate air strikes and other rights abuses and should be disbanded, a rights group said on Thursday. Human Rights Watch said it investigated 14 cases in which CIA-backed Afghan counterinsurgency forces committed serious abuses in Afghanistan between late 2017 and mid-2019. ""They are illustrative of a larger pattern of serious laws-of-war violations — some amounting to war crimes — that extends to all provinces in Afghanistan where these paramilitary forces operate with impunity,"" the group said in a report.",,"CIA-backed Afghan units carry out illegal killings, other abuse - group" -"Former </>Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 17:11:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/former-time-editor-wants-hate-211125098.html,"A former Time editor claimed that the United States needs a law banning hate speech, and that President Donald Trump “might be in violation of it” if there were one -- because, apparently, he doesn’t notice the irony of holding both of these views at once.In a Tuesday tweet promoting his Washington Post piece, titled “Why America needs a hate speech law,” Richard Stengel stated:> My @WashingtonPost piece on why the very broadness of the First Amendment suggests we should have a hate speech law. And if we did, why the President might be in violation of it. https://t.co/3ybv3kC69f> > -- Richard Stengel (@stengel) October 29, 2019In the piece, Stengel writes that “many nations have passed laws to curb the incitement of racial and religious hatred” in the wake of World War II:> These laws started out as protections against the kinds of anti-Semitic bigotry that gave rise to the Holocaust. We call them hate speech laws, but there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is. In general, hate speech is speech that attacks and insults people on the basis of race, religion, ethnic origin and sexual orientation.“I’m all for protecting ‘thought that we hate,’ but not speech that incites hate,” he continues. “It undermines the very values of a fair marketplace of ideas that the First Amendment is designed to protect.”It’s interesting how Stengel actually does acknowledge the fact that “there’s no agreed-upon definition of what hate speech actually is,” and yet he still wants laws banning it. This makes absolutely no sense. After all, when he calls for laws to ban “hate speech,” he is, inherently, giving the government the power to decide what would and would not qualify -- the exact same government that is led by Donald Trump, and that is full of people who support him.In other words: Stengel somehow trusts that the government will have the same view of “hate speech” as he does, and then, in the same thought, seems to acknowledge that there’s actually no way that many of them would. Unless he thinks that the president and his congressional supporters would actually pass a law that they’d be in violation of, his argument for “hate speech” laws winds up being a pretty great argument against them.It’s ironic, but it’s not new: More often than not, it’s the uber-progressives arguing for laws against “hate speech” -- despite the fact that they’re often the same people who are also arguing that Donald Trump and Republicans are constantly spewing it. Maybe it’s just me, but if I thought that the leader of my government was, you know, literally Hitler or whatever, the last thing that I’d want would be to give that person and their supporters control over my speech.Yes, the First Amendment gives us the right to be “offensive” with our speech. Given the fact that a new thing seems to be declared “racist” or “sexist” every day, I’m certainly glad that we do have this protection. After all, it would only take there being a few too many of the “super woke” in our government for a phrase like “you guys” to become a criminal offense.The truth is, though, the right to be “offensive” (however you define that subjective term, anyway) is not even the most important role that our First Amendment plays. No, what’s most important is that it protects our right to speak out against the government when we see fit -- without having to worry about its retaliation. Like it or not, the only way to ensure that we retain this important check on government power is to never (ever) give its leaders a vehicle take it away.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/eTNessteMBpuBTcqmJGuYw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/bae9af12e23cce197b317b5c1be56053,"Former Time Editor Wants Hate-Speech Laws, Thinks Trump ‘Might’ Violate Them, and Misses the Irony" -Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 16:48:17 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/auburn-tree-poisoner-fails-appear-194723533.html,"The University of Alabama fan convicted of poisoning Auburn University's oak trees failed to attend a hearing Wednesday on why he hasn't paid court-ordered restitution. The Opelika-Auburn news reports Harvey Updyke, a retired Texas state trooper who lives in Louisiana, didn't show up for a hearing before Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker. The judge also gave prosecutors a month to review a letter from Updyke's doctor saying the 71-year-old man wasn't well enough to travel to Opelika for court.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/1gNOA2pXfyrM6OAN_NUHOw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/1e8456da4c5bf7d0118896a94671de0c,Auburn tree poisoner fails to appear in court for hearing -Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards',"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:06:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/greta-thunberg-declines-environmental-prize-121553844.html,"Greta Thunberg declined an environmental award worth $52,000 from the Nordic Council. She said she wants leaders to listen to science, not prizes.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zs3mik0jZfAlLWEoJyMkrg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://d.yimg.com/hd/cp-video-transcode/1009217/65cb79a9-02b8-4a7f-8aab-1362c984a8d9/91fe7102-9982-585b-9f27-cf068fc0abbc/data_3_0.jpg?s=0934d9d804c275fcaf2293e2378a9716&c=824aa0951e8394826b508be5fae1f49f&a=tripleplay4us&mr=0,Greta Thunberg declines environmental prize: 'Climate movement does not need any more awards' -"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp","Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:48:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-citizens-united-led-090034035.html,"Ukraine-gate illustrates precisely how independent expenditures can corrupt. Trump, Giuliani, Fruman and Parnas show how it's done. All in one month.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oMrm78wfyXVi4Q1FxuwrGw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/0ad1be9ebb64ad4d5f7c03222769ad30,"Supreme Court and Citizens United led Trump, Giuliani & friends into the Ukraine swamp" -A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 09:53:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-couple-forced-evacuate-home-235234902.html,California's Sonoma wine country dealt with destructive wildfires in 2017. Here's how one winery is dealing with 2019's Kincade Fire.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/CA00kDlCDdfJPE_xJu5MPA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/2f68ab3c62383b74b3b0ed65ea629f04,A California couple who was forced to evacuate their home and winery share what it's really like to endure the wildfires engulfing the state -Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 08:23:13 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/searchers-look-man-seen-youtube-064924811.html,"Japanese police said they found a body on Mount Fuji on Wednesday and are verifying whether it is that of a man who was seen falling down a snow-covered slope while livestreaming his climb up the mountain on YouTube. The video, titled ""Let's Go to Snowy Mt. Fuji,"" shows a man who identifies himself as TEDZU panting. The snow-covered path becomes narrower as he walks along a cliffside fence.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kUiWctwisnZSup5k69MgDg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/5ed194327d6c1f140aa3cfa5eb450b34,Searchers look for man seen on YouTube falling on Mount Fuji -This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 02:00:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/ton-iran-destroy-f-35-060000974.html,"A lot, that's what.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/OCFcZ7goiLRiWliNg1RCxw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/fcdeec63d5590fe1616fd511bd254a0d,This Is What It Would Take for Iran to Destroy an F-35 -NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 15:28:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nyc-medical-examiner-dismisses-epstein-192810863.html,"Robyn Beck/ReutersNew York City’s chief medical examiner pushed back hard Wednesday against a celebrity pathologist-for-hire’s conspiracy-stirring claim that Jeffrey Epstein’s autopsy was more consistent with homicide than suicide.“The original medical investigation was thorough and complete. There is no reason for a second medical investigation by our office,” said Dr. Barbara Sampson.Sampson determined Epstein died by suicide from hanging in his jail cell in August, while he was awaiting trial on sex-trafficking charges.Epstein’s lawyers and family have refused to accept her finding, and the disgraced financier’s brother hired Dr. Michael Baden—erstwhile host of HBO’s Autopsy—to do his own investigation.Jeffrey Epstein’s Death Ruled Suicide by Hanging: New York City Medical ExaminerDuring an appearance Wednesday morning on Fox News, where he is a contributor, Baden said his own review isn’t complete but nonetheless suggested that suicide isn’t the cause of death.He claimed a collection of neck fractures in Epstein’s hyoid bone and thyroid cartilage “are extremely unusual in suicidal hangings and could occur much more commonly in homicidal strangulation.”“I’ve not seen in 50 years where that occurred in a suicidal hanging case,” Baden said.Although more common in homicidal strangulation cases, some studies have found that hyoid and thyroid fractures are not rare in suicidal hangings.A 2000 study in Australia found fractures in nearly half the 40 suicide cases it examined and said they were even more common in older victims and men; in fact, 15 percent had fractures of both the hyoid and the thyroid. And a 2010 study out of Thailand found such fractures in 25 percent of the confirmed suicides it reviewed.After His Suicide Watch Ended, Jeffrey Epstein Was Left to Look After HimselfBaden, who observed the autopsy performed by Sampson, served briefly as the city’s chief medical examiner before being fired in 1979 by then-Mayor Ed Koch in response to a complaint that he told doctors during a guest-speaking event that Gov. Nelson Rockefeller had died during sexual intercourse.Three years later, he was dismissed as chief deputy medical examiner by Suffolk County, New York, over a magazine article about ways to kill that wouldn’t show up in an autopsy; he protested that he was misquoted.In the '70s, Baden helped Congress investigate the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King Jr.—he concluded that Lee Harvey Oswald and James Earl Ray, respectively, were the killers—but became famous for serving as a private pathologist in high-profile cases like the Aaron Hernandez suicide, the O.J. Simpson murder trial, and the Jayson Williams shooting. He also served as a defense witness in the Phil Spector murder trial, where he reportedly testified that he had no conflict of interest in the case even though his wife was heading Spector’s legal team.Baden isn’t the only one skeptical about the official account of Epstein’s death at the high-security federal lockup in Manhattan, which is currently the subject of a Justice Department probe.Spencer Kuvin, a lawyer representing victims of Epstein, said serious questions remain, including the whereabouts of the guards assigned to monitor him, why the cameras outside his cell apparently didn’t work, and why he was taken off suicide watch.“It all makes no sense. Until they come out with the evidence, I don’t believe anything they’re telling us,” Kuvin said. “Exactly what happened I can’t tell you, but I certainly don’t believe the story they’re trying to feed everyone.”Sigrid McCawley, an attorney at Boies Schiller Flexner, the law firm representing some of Epstein’s victims, said the ongoing Justice Department probe “limits what can and should be said at this time.”“But as the public has come to to understand the horrifying scope and scale of the international sex trafficking system he operated for decades with impunity, what really matters for the brave survivors who are seeking justice is how he lived, not how he died,” she said. “That is how the man should be judged.”Kuvin said his clients are “more interested in seeing co-conspirators prosecuted” than in delving into Epstein autopsy theories.“The justice system failed. They either allowed him to take his own life or someone got in there and killed him,” Kuvin told The Daily Beast. “Either way, it’s a failure of the Justice Department… [which] has failed them repeatedly over the last 13 years. This was just one more time.”If you or a loved one are struggling with suicidal thoughts, please reach out to the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 1-800-273-TALK (8255), or contact the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/siZIeVPuJ9_PWKpedfWniw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/ecf97654f18e608d05355321d695ab3a,NYC Medical Examiner Dismisses Epstein ‘Homicide’ Claim by Dr. Michael Baden -UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 19:15:24 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/un-envoy-burundi-quits-ahead-2020-vote-231524748.html,"The United Nations envoy to Burundi announced on Wednesday that he planned to step down from the post he has held for two years, amid concerns over the impartiality of elections set for 2020. ""Poorly organized and contested elections are always a source of conflict,"" he warned.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/RpSre8_sFXg3cpMJyQWAaw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7ebfdcfc93189d85cf9ac6ba4228dc0ffcf4f4d5.jpg,UN envoy to Burundi quits ahead of 2020 vote -The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 21:21:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-wildfire-burns-southern-california-134456310.html,"Authorities say a man was arrested and accused of arson after a crew responded to a report of a wildfire in Northern California. A CalFire statement said engine crews were able to quickly contain the small fire in the Sonoma County community of Geyserville and identified a potential suspect. Authorities reported progress Wednesday in battling the Kincade fire in Sonoma County that started last week outside of Geyserville and forced the evacuation of the entire community, home to about 900 people.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/0C9vSnVbBp3cT5iskC_3jg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/113324e2d60ca62d1ed4d3f0a6d4871a,The Latest: Man accused of arson in California wildfire +They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, +They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv deleted file mode 100644 index 0c4e58d..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191031.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,745 +0,0 @@ -title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:33:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:10:40 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -70 dead after cooking canister explodes on train,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:47:29 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/1mz5Mmz3uXw/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/1mz5Mmz3uXw, -India downgrades Kashmir's status,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:55 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gTs78zGvmko/index.html,"India has officially split the former state of Jammu and Kashmir into two union territories, a move that gives the government in New Delhi greater control over the disputed Muslim-majority region.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gTs78zGvmko, -Hong Kong has fallen into a recession,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:55:14 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/XMoYOrld4W8/index.html,"Months of protests in Hong Kong that forced shops to close, paralyzed public transportation and scared off tourists have left the city's economy in worse shape than feared.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/XMoYOrld4W8, -Brexit wrecked Britain and it hasn't even happened yet,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:55:04 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/A1K0YMi1yiA/index.html,The people of the UK voted to leave the European Union over three years and four months ago -- and the country has been bickering about exactly how to do it ever since.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/A1K0YMi1yiA, -Why US supermarkets are building 'dark stores',"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 13:36:43 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/5pYFr94C0IE/index.html,America's top supermarkets are facing a new challenge: Grocery aisles in stores aren't suited to meet the growing demand for online orders.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/5pYFr94C0IE, -4 things to know about the new AirPods Pro ,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 14:22:46 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/yqRKXqVHxwg/index.html,Apple's newest AirPods went on sale in stores on Wednesday.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/yqRKXqVHxwg, -Now's the time to refi. Rates as low as 3.04% APR (15yr)!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/BNRQlairJok/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/BNRQlairJok, -Fed just dropped mortgage rates. Act now!,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/DTEw97eGVO4/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/DTEw97eGVO4, -Refi rates at 3.04% APR (15 yr). Do you qualify?,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/QMqkOqfRKp0/,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/QMqkOqfRKp0, -7 cards charging 0% interest until 2021,2019-10-31,http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/wNixGNK25QQ/pay-0-interest-until-2021,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/wNixGNK25QQ, -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" -Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state -The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" -Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state -The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:37:54 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/california-not-fire-danger-lingering-052524893.html,"Strong winds fanned new fires in Southern California on Thursday, burning homes and forcing residents to flee in a repeat of a frightening scenario already faced by tens of thousands across the state. The latest blazes erupted in the heavily populated inland region east of Los Angeles as strong, seasonal Santa Ana winds continued to blow with gusts of up to 60 mph (96 kph) predicted to last until the evening before they fade away. A fast-moving fire spread into the northern neighborhoods of the city of San Bernardino, forcing the evacuation of 490 homes — approximately 1,300 people, the San Bernardino County Fire Department said.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/EgvcbkR5TS0030iTKqMFUA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/50bdfeb160fad4ba28ac5cc0abe6c7d8,"2 new California fires burn homes, send residents fleeing" -Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:49:33 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/indian-kashmir-formally-ceases-state-074702472.html,"India's Muslim-majority region of Kashmir was formally divided on Thursday, almost three months after losing its autonomy in a move that triggered violence and stoked tensions with arch-rival Pakistan. The move, announced in early August when India imposed a lockdown and sent in tens of thousands of extra troops, saw Jammu and Kashmir cease to be a state and split into two new administrative territories ruled directly from New Delhi. Speaking next to a colossal statue of independence hero Sardar Vallabhbhai Patel in his home state of Gujarat, Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Thursday hailed a ""bright future"" for the blood-soaked Himalayan region.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/tgmQ6cfdT1T5lXFkGvD8Cg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/6ca8b167fc5782c61c479d4a7165db5861e924af.jpg,Indian Kashmir formally ceases to be a state -The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:30:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/supreme-court-end-daca-103031297.html,"President Obama created an illegal policy for the executive branch to follow. President Trump decided to stop that policy. And in a bizarre case the Supreme Court will be hearing November 12, activist groups are suing to force the executive branch to keep acting illegally.At the heart of the case is the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) program, through which Obama made legal status and work authorization available to more than a million illegal-immigrant “Dreamers” who arrived in this country as minors. Trump decided to end the program and was, unsurprisingly, promptly sued.If the year were 2016 and the lawsuit were about whether the Court itself should strike down DACA — instead of whether it should stop the executive from ending it — you could at least have a sliver of a debate. Federal immigration laws do grant the executive branch broad enforcement discretion, and the executive branch has used deferred action, albeit on a much narrower basis, to avoid deporting sensitive groups in the past.However, even in that hypothetical case, the program would not have much of a chance before a conservative Court. A similar program for the illegal-immigrant parents of citizen children (“DAPA”) was enjoined in court and never implemented, and the appeals-court ruling against the program spelled out an argument that would obviously apply to DACA as well.The appeals court pointed out that, as vague as U.S. immigration laws can be, they lay out an elaborate process for granting legal status to immigrants. In lieu of that system, the Obama administration’s interpretation of the law would allow the executive “to grant lawful presence and work authorization to any illegal alien in the United States — an untenable position in light of the [law’s] intricate system of immigration classifications and employment eligibility.”The court also stressed that “previous deferred-action programs are not analogous to DAPA.” They were typically used to help people from a specific country in the wake of a disaster, or to help immigrants move from one legal status to another.The Supreme Court confronted the DAPA case in the wake of Antonin Scalia’s death, split 4–4, and thereby let the appeals-court ruling be the final word. The Court has moved to the right since then, so the four votes supporting the appeals-court ruling likely represent the views of the new five-justice conservative majority.And there’s a big difference between the old DAPA case and the new DACA one: In the previous case, the courts were asked to stop the executive branch from acting illegally, raising the age-old quandary of how aggressive the judicial branch should be when it comes to reining in the abuses of the executive. This time, the courts are asked to refuse to let the executive branch end the illegal program on its own, on the idea that the administration failed to adequately explain and defend its reasons for doing so. Such i-dotting and t-crossing is required under the Administrative Procedures Act.As Josh Blackman and Ilya Shapiro — who both support DACA as a policy — explained in a recent brief for the Cato Institute, the argument just doesn’t hold water. Even if the short letter laying out the administration’s objections wasn’t a “model of clarity,” it explained that DACA lacked “proper statutory authority” and suffered from the same problems that had gotten DAPA killed in court on “multiple legal grounds.” The letter also alluded to a deeper constitutional problem: If current immigration law does allow the executive branch to change policy so drastically on its own, it’s arguably an illegal delegation of Congress’s lawmaking power, and the executive branch can and should avoid this problem by winding down the policy.But most to the point, Blackman and Shapiro write that “the Administrative Procedure Act (APA) cannot be read to force the executive branch to continue implementing a policy that is contrary to law, regardless of how it chooses to rescind the policy.”Something like DACA will almost certainly be part of any long-term compromise on immigration policy. I’m sure most congressional Republicans would be happy to preserve it in exchange for a smarter immigration system. But the executive had no right to enact DACA on its own, and the courts have no right to stop the Trump administration from correcting course.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Zo3439T_YD9HcnTVxOQcbw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/99f778b59c4318e137b1700d28478d94,The Supreme Court Should Kill DACA -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:05:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-trump-zelensky-phone-conversation-120539062.html,"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening defended President Trump from accusations of corruption based on the contents of a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.""The call was consistent with what I had a long set of conversations with President Trump on our policy for an awfully long time,"" Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. ""Our policy has been very clear all along with respect to Ukraine.""House Democrats are conducting an impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military aid marked for Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate corruption allegations against political rival Joe Biden and his son. The inquiry is based in part on a July 25 conversation between Trump and Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly urges his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the Bidens.""I heard the President very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption – whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that the monies that were being provided would be used appropriately,"" he continued. ""It was very consistent with what I’d understood President Trump and our administration to be doing all along.""Pompeo asserted that State Department officials who have given testimony detrimental to Trump during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry were in fact on the same page as the President in regards to policy on Ukraine.""My understanding is that every one of these individuals had the same Ukrainian policy that President Trump had,"" Pompeo said.The House is due to vote on formalizing the inquiry on Thursday.On Wednesday, National Security Council Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, who listened to the call between Trump and Zelensky, testified to Congress that the transcript of the conversation released by the White House had been altered.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ach0B6AmtTpbiQhKLKSwWw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/1963769d6e33edd2a9e4003a6813da81,Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:05:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/pompeo-trump-zelensky-phone-conversation-120539062.html,"Secretary of State Mike Pompeo on Wednesday evening defended President Trump from accusations of corruption based on the contents of a phone conversation between Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky.""The call was consistent with what I had a long set of conversations with President Trump on our policy for an awfully long time,"" Pompeo said in an interview with Fox News. ""Our policy has been very clear all along with respect to Ukraine.""House Democrats are conducting an impeachment inquiry into whether Trump withheld military aid marked for Ukraine to pressure the country to investigate corruption allegations against political rival Joe Biden and his son. The inquiry is based in part on a July 25 conversation between Trump and Zelensky in which Trump repeatedly urges his Ukrainian counterpart to investigate the Bidens.""I heard the President very clearly on that call talking about making sure that corruption – whether that corruption took place in the 2016 election, whether that corruption was continuing to take place, that the monies that were being provided would be used appropriately,"" he continued. ""It was very consistent with what I’d understood President Trump and our administration to be doing all along.""Pompeo asserted that State Department officials who have given testimony detrimental to Trump during House Democrats' impeachment inquiry were in fact on the same page as the President in regards to policy on Ukraine.""My understanding is that every one of these individuals had the same Ukrainian policy that President Trump had,"" Pompeo said.The House is due to vote on formalizing the inquiry on Thursday.On Wednesday, National Security Council Ukraine expert Alexander Vindman, who listened to the call between Trump and Zelensky, testified to Congress that the transcript of the conversation released by the White House had been altered.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ach0B6AmtTpbiQhKLKSwWw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/the_national_review_738/1963769d6e33edd2a9e4003a6813da81,Pompeo: Trump–Zelensky Phone Conversation ‘Consistent’ With Administration’s Anti-Corruption Policy Goals -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:37:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-body-believed-missing-british-113746232.html,"Cambodian authorities found a body floating near the Thai border on Thursday that is believed to be a 21-year-old British woman who went missing last week from a beach party in a coastal area popular with backpackers, police said. Amelia Bambridge's disappearance prompted a search with divers, land-based teams and police drones after her purse was found on a beach with her mobile phone and watch inside. Cambodian maritime authorities located the body in waters near the Thai border, about 100 kilometres (62 miles) away from where she had disappeared last week, said Chuon Narin, police chief of the Preah Sihanouk province.",,"UPDATE 1-Body believed to be missing British woman, 21, found off Cambodia" -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:01:10 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/photos-show-paradise-california-one-110110569.html,"The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PCMbfOGgiQrP9wsDr6LBRw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/insider_articles_922/09fe4ea1b28d747b58b045d99bbd1dee,"Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community" -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the revenge porn campaign targeting Rep. Katie Hill is a 'major crime' that wouldn't happen to a male member of Congress,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:36:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/alexandria-ocasio-cortez-says-revenge-143642245.html,"Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez decried the publication of nude photos of Rep. Katie Hill, who announced her resignation from Congress this week.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Fr2UZHbKq8xmmxAY3AwuuQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/8e7523e8a3b3c297f63efe28eba0cc74,Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says the revenge porn campaign targeting Rep. Katie Hill is a 'major crime' that wouldn't happen to a male member of Congress -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:47:42 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/norths-kim-sends-condolences-moon-053257821.html,"North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has sent a message of condolence to South Korean President Moon Jae-in over his mother's recent death, Moon's office said Thursday. It was later in the day handed over to Moon, who was staying in the southeastern city of Busan where his mother's mourning station was located, Moon's spokeswoman Ko Min-jung said. Ko said Kim expressed his ""deep commemorating (of Moon's mother) and condolence"" over her death.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Nd_6NQf6metYLZMpwHPWhA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e21ad084c8dd5ba9a641cb427dadacfc,North's Kim sends condolences to Moon over mother's death -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:05:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/reuters-graphic-examining-weapons-tactics-110557306.html,"As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/MsMyTzr8Yfqznh55nb3s0A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/2843751ef05664b974ff5d0d076da81a,Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong -She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors?,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:00:21 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/she-climbed-everest-nine-times-060021913.html,"Lhakpa Sherpa works for minimum wages and currently washes dishes, as she trains for her 10th Everest summit with no endorsement deals, no nutritionist and no trainerLhakpa Sherpa in Talcott Mountain state park in Simsbury, Connecticut, where she hikes to prepare for her 10th summit of Everest in the spring of 2020. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianI reach Lhakpa Sherpa’s West Hartford apartment at noon on an overcast Sunday in Connecticut. She bounds out of the front door, embraces me, and welcomes me inside. The small apartment is dimly lit. The living room has a few chairs, and a wall of sports medals from her two daughters’ 5Ks and gymnastic meets.Lhakpa was the first Nepalese woman to summit Everest and descend alive, which she accomplished in the spring of 2000. With nine summits, she holds the world record for women. She plans to summit the world’s highest mountain again in the spring of 2020, but as an unsponsored athlete and single mother of three, it’s difficult to afford training and travel. She currently works at Whole Foods washing dishes, making minimum wage. Unable to afford or drive a car, she walks to work and occasionally takes an Uber to training destinations.Sitting in her living room, I’m struck by her achievements – but also her lack of resources. How is it that a woman with such demonstrated accomplishment and skill is without sponsorship, and must risk nearly everything to continue to climb the Himalayan mountains she loves?Lhakpa makes tea while I chat with her 13-year-old daughter, Shiny, who – more fluent in technology and the English language – acts as her mother’s manager and occasional translator.“What’s it like for you,” I ask, “when your mother is away on an expedition?”> I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.She turns her phone over in her hands. “It’s hard,” she says. “I’m proud of her, but I worry.” Each climbing season, six to 10 climbers die on the mountain.Everest expeditions last upwards of two months, usually in May, and there are only occasional opportunities to communicate via satellite phone and Skype. Avalanches, like the one that hit base camp in 2015, have kept them out of contact for weeks at a time.“I’m very good with the mountain,” Lhakpa says, bringing me a hot cup of tea, offering her warm smile. She has a long, lush ponytail and bright eyes. “I go, but I know I will come home. I have to come home.” She looks reassuringly at Shiny.Lhakpa, 45, grew up in Balakharka, a village in the Makalu region of the Nepalese Himalayas, where her father owned tea houses, and her mother still lives. Lhakpa tells me she isn’t sure of her exact age, as there were no birth certificates, and all of her mother’s 11 children were born at home. As a child, Lhakpa had no electricity, and young girls did not attend school.Lhapka Sherpa prepares tea at her home in West Hartford. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian“You see my family on television,” she says. “Sherpas. Climbing Everest.” Her brother Mingma Gelu Sherpa directs an expedition outfitter in Kathmandu. Her oldest brother has summited “10 or 11 times,” she says. Another brother has summited eight times, her youngest brother five, and a sister has summited once.“If there weren’t any Sherpas,” she tells me, “nobody could climb Everest”.She worries when people say that anyone can climb Everest if they have the money – she’s heard people say that it’s just a matter of putting one foot in front of the other, and that Sherpas will do all the work. An average climb with a western outfitter costs upwards of $50,000, while a Nepalese outfitter costs upwards of $30,000.She has seen firsthand all the ways people can die on Everest: avalanches, falls, the thin air of the dead zone. Climbers must occasionally pass bodies, of which there are over a 100 on the mountain. (Bodies are dangerous to take down and doing so requires the effort of at least five sherpas.) Sherpas pass through the Khumbu icefall roughly 40 times just to make sure tourists have the supplies and ropes they need. If you spend enough time in the icefall, she says, you are guaranteed to die.“Why do we do this job?” she asks. “Because the alternative is to make money growing potatoes.”For Lhakpa, to say climbing Everest is easy is an insult. The fact that it is said at all reveals the problematic ways privilege has woven itself into adventure culture.Lhakpa Sherpa and her daughter Shiny, who says of her mother: ‘I’m proud of her, but I worry.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The Guardian•••Serena Williams won the Australian Open while 23 weeks pregnant; Lhakpa Sherpa summited Everest eight months after the birth of her first child, and again while two months pregnant with Shiny.But unlike Williams, Lhakpa has no endorsement deals, no nutritionist, no trainer. She can’t afford to train full time, or much at all, because she works constantly in order to pay her rent.When she leaves her hourly jobs for climbing expeditions, she risks homelessness. When she returns, she picks up as much work as she can, working as a cashier at 7-Eleven and cleaning houses. “I never tell them about Everest,” she says, recounting a time when an employer realized that the woman mopping his floor was a world-renowned athlete.When I approached her for an interview, I asked her if we could hike together. As we prepare to leave for the walk, I notice that the grommet on Lhakpa’s hiking boots is broken, and she struggles to lace them. I’ve seen athletes with lesser accomplishments – but a higher number of Instagram followers – receive impressive amounts of free gear. Lhakpa mentions that her worn, orange Osprey backpack has summited Everest at least twice.Lhakpa Sherpa in 2006, when she broke her own record for the most Everest summits by a woman. Photograph: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GettyIn an era where many organizations profess a desire to diversify outdoors culture, it is difficult to process that such an accomplished athlete – with an authentic connection to the place she climbs - remains unsupported. I presume the root cause is that Lhakpa is not traditionally marketable, and brands want maximum visibility. She doesn’t have a curated Instagram presence. She’s a middle-aged woman of color, an immigrant single mother who speaks in broken English. She doesn’t exude “stoke”. She’s known to climb slowly on the lower slopes, at the advice of the Icefall Doctors, the Sherpas who manage the ropes and ladders over deep crevasses.In person, Lhakpa’s words are laced with intelligence and humor, and her passion for climbing is evident. “This is my gift,” she says of climbing. Though she would have liked to become a doctor or pilot in another life, she knows her talent is getting herself and others on top of some of the world’s largest peaks. Though Black Diamond sponsored an earlier climb, Lhakpa is currently without support.Her dream is to summit Everest in May 2020, followed by K2, a mountain whose summit once eluded her because of inclement weather. She knows this plan is ambitious, if not crazy. “All extreme athletes are crazy,” she says. “But I want to show the world I can do it. I want to show women who look like me that they can do it, too.”•••We take an easy hike on Talcott Mountain, a place she often goes with friends for a quick walk. She occasionally stops to place her hand on a rock face. We talk about the sounds of Everest, particularly the groaning ice. She shows me how she sleeps in a tent on the coldest nights, with her hands clasped underneath her body in the sleeping bag.Lhakpa began climbing in the same way many of her siblings and cousins did, helping an uncle move equipment for tourists on Makalu at 15, serving as a kitchen hand and porter. She says she was a tomboy, and that her mother worried she would never get married. She met her first husband on the mountain, and they moved to the United States in 2002. They often climbed together, until the relationship turned violent.> Climbing is my way out of washing dishes. It is the way to make a better life for the girlsIn 2004, her husband notoriously struck her on Everest, continuing a pattern of abuse that began upon the birth of their first child and continued on expeditions and at home. A difficult few years followed, with the family’s fortunes falling; by 2012 they were on food stamps. After further attacks, hospitalizations, and a stay at a shelter, the couple divorced, and Lhakpa was awarded full custody of the girls.I first learned about Lhakpa years ago, through the story of the 2004 climb, and have thought several times how damaging to her climbing career it must have been. She was forced to endure physical and emotional hardship in front of her professional community, and did not have the ability to control the public narrative. She left her marriage with no financial resources and two dependents. (Her oldest child, Nima, a son from another relationship, is now an adult.) She undoubtedly lost good climbing years to adversity, and yet her commitment to climbing persists.It has always seemed unfair to me to ask female athletes and artists about their marriage and children. Were the “great” male explorers of the past – or even the present – asked as often about how their children are cared for during an adventure, or if it’s OK to take certain risks – but to leave Lhakpa’s marriage and children out of the picture would perhaps be to hide one of her greatest challenges, and most profound motivations.“Climbing is my way out of washing dishes,” Lhakpa tells me. “It is the way to make a better life for the girls.”•••Lhakpa Sherpa: ‘If you don’t trust, you die.’ Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianAs we walk the well-worn paths of Talcott Mountain back to my car, Shiny becomes concerned about mosquitoes. “I don’t want you to get EEE when you’re out hiking,” she tells Lhakpa. I think about how difficult it must be to process the risks her mother takes, all while knowing her lifetime record of resilient comebacks. They look out for each other. Even when Lhakpa is posing for photographs at an outlook, she has one eye on her youngest daughter, and cautions her against stepping too close to the ridge line.Lhakpa and I talk about the difference between climbing Everest as a Sherpa, and as a climber. One you do for someone else, and the other you do for yourself. She expresses a moving amount of devotion to the clients Sherpas guide to the summit.“You make a promise,” she says, “and you keep it.” Lhakpa talks a lot about trust – trusting herself, trusting the climbing partner she’s tethered to, trusting the mountain. “If you don’t trust,” she says, “you die.”“I’m a small mouse climbing a big mountain,” Lhakpa tells me. Her relationship with the mountain is reverent, as if she’s in conversation with it. “Share with the mountain,” she says. “If you’re scared, your fear scares the mountain.” She even delayed 2019’s planned climb because of her beloved father’s death. “I didn’t want to carry the sadness,” she says. “It would not be safe.”When we get back to the apartment, Lhakpa shows me her boots and insulated Red Fox suit. “I look like a bear,” she says, slipping into the gear, which is reminiscent of a wearable sleeping bag. During climbing season, the temperatures on Everest’s summit range from -4F to -31F.Lhakpa displays the 50-year-old oxygen mask she wears because she says it’s more reliable than the new ones. Photograph: Kayana Szymczak/The GuardianShe also wears a 50-year-old oxygen mask, because she believes it’s more reliable than the new ones. “I need smart students,” she says, asking me if I can find someone to design a better mask based on the old models. I picture a group of bright minds at MIT listening to this woman – this expert – who has grown up on the mountain and knows what climbers need as they step into the thin air of Everest.These are the other things Lhakpa wants: sponsorship for her historic 10th climb. Time to train and build her guiding business, Cloudscape Climbing. A life spent on the mountains and not cleaning dishes and taking out trash. A book and documentary about her life. Money to help send her bright daughters to college.“These are not quick dreams,” she adds. “They are long dreams.”Lhakpa has always worked hard to survive, and to subvert expectations. In the past, people have discounted the summits of Sherpas, saying that their familiarity with the altitude and location somehow diminishes the accomplishment. Lhakpa, who dared to step outside of a service culture and climb for herself, wants a 10th summit, and is serious about advancing her record.When I ask Shiny what she admires most about her mother, she pauses. “There is so much,” she says, her voice shaking. “But I would have to say her confidence.”Lhakpa is self-conscious of her hands, dried from washing dishes, and the jobs she must work in order to support her family. She is also driven to inspire others, particularly women and single parents. “I would like to hide in the mountain,” Lhakpa confesses on our descent, aware of her humble circumstances. “But I have to show my face here.”",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/aTsrZU.6T7nrIx0cghr9Rw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-GB/the_guardian_765/924e3a16db3b93dd3a85bbed5207015e,She climbed Everest nine times and set a world record – so why doesn’t she have sponsors? -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:25:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/1-u-forces-seen-near-132555886.html,"U.S. armoured vehicles were seen on Thursday near the Syria-Turkey border in a part of northeastern Syria where they had not been observed since early October when Washington announced the withdrawal of American forces, according to a witness and Reuters video footage. A military source from the Kurdish-led Syrian Democratic Forces (SDF) described the movement as a patrol running between the towns of Rmeilan and Qahtaniyah, which is 20 km (12 miles) to the west. The witness saw the U.S. military vehicles outside the town of Qahtaniyah, roughly 6 km (4 miles) south of the border.",,UPDATE 2-U.S. forces seen patrolling in Syria near Turkish border -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:48:40 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ImENIU.Ta7D8QwcH7wWueg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/c4a3982d1571388965d58973523bf48f,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:50:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-well-return-132350719.html,"The union representing 25,000 striking Chicago teachers voted to approve a tentative contract agreement with city officials but refused to end a strike that has canceled two weeks of classes unless the city's mayor adds school days to cover that lost time. Elected delegates for the Chicago Teachers Union voted Wednesday night to accept a tentative agreement with the nation's third-largest school district but say they won't come back without Mayor Lori Lightfoot's commitment. The union also encouraged members to fill the streets outside City Hall on Thursday, hoping to pressure Lightfoot into accepting its terms.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/wHNKF.spntsmd2dxw8BNyA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/80c07a1af9294f6ce1b88a5874ebb122,Striking Chicago teachers: We'll return if classes made up -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -The Latest: Video shows US forces in Syria border area,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:15:44 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-turkey-says-captured-18-135616944.html,"New video shows U.S. armored vehicles patrolling near oil facilities in an area of northern Syria that saw recent heavy fighting between Turkey and Syrian Kurdish forces, and from which American troops had withdrawn. The video, aired by Kurdistan 24, an Iraqi Kurdish network, showed what appeared to be U.S. special operations forces visiting oil facilities east of the city of Qamishli on Thursday. A witness says aircraft overhead provided cover as the patrol visited six small oil facilities.",,The Latest: Video shows US forces in Syria border area -History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:57:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/history-shows-democrats-being-fair-090015707.html,This partisan vote will be a sad commentary on the degradation of a once noble party. Republicans need to stop carping about process and face reality.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IN8fAp5j4uZ6EpyCar3w2A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_opinion_532/6fa38e32ec540828f431ac5481d3dfdf,History shows Democrats are being fair to Republicans on Trump impeachment: Ex-Starr aide -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:31:06 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:33:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Is Among Lawyers Reaping $15 Million in 1MDB Deal -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:46:55 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/disabled-infirm-senior-complex-were-053217257.html,"One woman in her 80s tripped over another resident who had fallen on the landing in a steep stairwell. At least 20 seniors with wheelchairs and walkers were essentially trapped, in the dark, in a low-income apartment complex in Northern California during a two-day power shut-off aimed at warding off wildfires. Residents of the Villas at Hamilton in Novato, north of San Francisco, say they were without guidance from their property management company or the utility behind the blackout as they faced pitch-black stairwells and hallways and elevators that shut down.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.xKHuIObpdYlT3_yB5QM3A--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7f8f42e64999a72c508bee8ac1cce9a2,Disabled California seniors in complex left behind in outage -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:11:34 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/thats-not-bringing-change-obama-161906797.html,"""That's not bringing about change. If all you're doing is casting stones, you're probably not going to get that far,"" the former president said.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/AEN8wJEL8250wF1A.y67.g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/20fc21a139a8b853711f5cc8117a86b2,'That's not bringing about change': Obama advises 'woke' young people not to be so judgmental -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:44:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/lost-ww2-british-submarine-found-123106914.html,"The wreck of a British submarine, which vanished at the height of World War Two, has been discovered lying at the bottom of the sea off Malta, university marine archaeologists said on Thursday. HMS Urge had been based with other submarines in Malta and had carried out several deadly missions when the British navy ordered it and rest of the flotilla to redeploy to Egypt because of a relentless German siege of the Mediterranean island. A team from the University of Malta, which has spent two decades surveying the local seas, said that at the request of the grandson of Urge's commander, they combed an area this summer that had once been heavily mined by Nazi forces.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/FZxjIrmw6SEu7pgPuJ12Ng--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/9b6aac7c625ca08de253ee3be2688b2a,Lost WW2 British submarine found sunk off the coast of Malta -The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:29:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-ex-trump-adviser-arrives-114430236.html,A former top national security adviser to President Donald Trump has arrived on Capitol Hill to testify in the House impeachment inquiry. Tim Morrison handled Russian and European affairs at the White House's National Security Council before resigning his position a day before Thursday's hearing.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/IyCmU8y0hmK.3k9oJ9_aHw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/7cb49101cca0e76b3a9503ab4d5ea3de,The Latest: Ex-Trump adviser arrives for impeachment session -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:22:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-wish-hunter-034516851.html,"Donald Trump Jr., a man who shares the same name as the President of the United States and is currently the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said with a straight face on Wednesday night that he wished his name was Hunter Biden so he could “make millions off my father's presidency.”During an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity to hawk his upcoming book Triggered, Trump Jr. quickly turned his sights on the impeachment inquiry his father is currently facing. After Trump Jr. called it a “sham” and claimed “the reasonable people in the middle” support his dad, Sean Hannity asked the presidential scion about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The president is facing impeachment largely due to his efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into the Democratic presidential nominee and his family.Insisting the media protects Biden and doesn’t report on unsubstantiated claims that the former veep forced Ukrainian leaders to drop investigations into his son, Hannity then wondered aloud what would happen if Trump Jr.’s name was Hunter Biden.“I wish my name was Hunter Biden,” the president’s eldest son said without a hint of irony. “I could go abroad, make millions off of my father’s presidency—I’d be a really rich guy! It would be incredible!”Trump Jr. then brought up unfounded allegations that Hunter Biden got a sweetheart $1.5 billion deal from China thanks to a desire by Beijing to curry favor with the then-vice president, claiming that if he got “$1.5 from China” the media’s “heads would explode.”“They would have an aneurysm—we’d end the fake news problem,” he concluded. “That is the double standard that we are living under right now. That is the double standard the American people are sick and tired of.”While the lack of self-awareness should be apparent, it should also be noted that while his father has been president, Trump Jr. has opened himself and his dad up to a whole host of conflict of interest issues. For example, a trip to India Trump Jr. took to sell his family’s condominium projects cost American taxpayers roughly $100,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vypoOIdHZqPTuyClu9C_Ig--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/0a13e97fac312f151608d8bf81deece6,Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’ -"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:59:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/desert-winds-fuel-twin-wildfires-125958841.html,"More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people. The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to 200 acres (80 hectares) and was starting to consume homes near scrub-covered slopes in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A helicopter and a small plane dropped water and retardant on the flames, according to Chris Prater, a fire department spokesman.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/As0Alga6NdnqgVgKSwm0sA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/7b13d9ec06bc690d60c21f3db52c21f1,"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:31:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-impeachment-vote-trump-live-133157368.html,"The House on Thursday voted to pass a historic resolution establishing formal procedures for the ongoing impeachment inquiry into President Trump. The 232-196 vote fell mostly along party lines, with two moderate Democrats voting against the measure.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.2dP09SVXpW7i6HlA6AVxg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-uploaded-images/2019-10/7b696780-fb33-11e9-b9e7-8bf92932f488,Live updates: House passes impeachment resolution -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:22:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/donald-trump-jr-wish-hunter-034516851.html,"Donald Trump Jr., a man who shares the same name as the President of the United States and is currently the executive vice president of the Trump Organization, said with a straight face on Wednesday night that he wished his name was Hunter Biden so he could “make millions off my father's presidency.”During an appearance on Fox News’ Hannity to hawk his upcoming book Triggered, Trump Jr. quickly turned his sights on the impeachment inquiry his father is currently facing. After Trump Jr. called it a “sham” and claimed “the reasonable people in the middle” support his dad, Sean Hannity asked the presidential scion about former Vice President Joe Biden and his son Hunter. The president is facing impeachment largely due to his efforts to pressure Ukraine to open investigations into the Democratic presidential nominee and his family.Insisting the media protects Biden and doesn’t report on unsubstantiated claims that the former veep forced Ukrainian leaders to drop investigations into his son, Hannity then wondered aloud what would happen if Trump Jr.’s name was Hunter Biden.“I wish my name was Hunter Biden,” the president’s eldest son said without a hint of irony. “I could go abroad, make millions off of my father’s presidency—I’d be a really rich guy! It would be incredible!”Trump Jr. then brought up unfounded allegations that Hunter Biden got a sweetheart $1.5 billion deal from China thanks to a desire by Beijing to curry favor with the then-vice president, claiming that if he got “$1.5 from China” the media’s “heads would explode.”“They would have an aneurysm—we’d end the fake news problem,” he concluded. “That is the double standard that we are living under right now. That is the double standard the American people are sick and tired of.”While the lack of self-awareness should be apparent, it should also be noted that while his father has been president, Trump Jr. has opened himself and his dad up to a whole host of conflict of interest issues. For example, a trip to India Trump Jr. took to sell his family’s condominium projects cost American taxpayers roughly $100,000.Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/vypoOIdHZqPTuyClu9C_Ig--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/0a13e97fac312f151608d8bf81deece6,Donald Trump Jr: I Wish I Was Like Hunter Biden So I Could ‘Make Millions Off of My Father’s Presidency’ -"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:59:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/desert-winds-fuel-twin-wildfires-125958841.html,"More wildfires ignited near Los Angeles on Thursday, destroying homes and forcing evacuations, as the region faced a second day of gusting desert winds that have fanned flames and displaced thousands of people. The fast-moving Hillside Fire grew to 200 acres (80 hectares) and was starting to consume homes near scrub-covered slopes in San Bernardino, east of Los Angeles, according to the San Bernardino County Fire Department. A helicopter and a small plane dropped water and retardant on the flames, according to Chris Prater, a fire department spokesman.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/As0Alga6NdnqgVgKSwm0sA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/7b13d9ec06bc690d60c21f3db52c21f1,"Homes destroyed, hundreds more evacuated as Los Angeles wildfires spread" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow.,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:40:49 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/nobel-peace-prize-vladimir-putin-094049080.html,"Adam Berry/GettyMOSCOW—For those who live outside Russia and the enormous bubble of admiration inflated around President Vladimir Putin, this story may be a bit hard to believe. But there is a movement afoot here, apparently in all sincerity, to nominate Putin for the Nobel Peace Prize.From the outside, one must wonder how the dossier for the former KGB operative might be prepared. Would it include the peace of the grave imposed on civilians in the Second Chechen War early in Putin’s presidency? Or would it be for backing quasi states broken away from the Republic of Georgia? Or, more recently, for the forcible annexation of Crimea and the instigation of a separatist war in Ukraine that continues to this day? Alex Gibney: How Donald Trump Is Morphing Into Vladimir PutinOr perhaps he’d win for Syria, where Putin is a strong supporter of the Assad dictatorship that has killed hundreds of thousands of people while half of the nation’s population has been driven into internal or external exile. Would that be the venue for Putin the peacemaker to earn his Nobel laurels?In fact, through the looking glass of Moscow’s media and Putin’s supporters, Ukraine and Syria are held up as prime examples of his eligibility for The Prize.The general secretary of the Russian-Turkish Public Forum, Sergey Markov, who is close to the Kremlin, tells The Daily Beast that there is no better candidate for the prestigious award than Putin: “Most Russian state officials believe that President Putin deserves the Nobel Peace Prize for saving the world from a nuclear war during the crisis in Ukraine in 2014—for holding back and not bringing Russian forces to Kharkiv, Dnepropetrovsk, [Ukrainian] cities full of Russian people,” Markov said, adding, “Of course Putin should be given the prize for solving the Turkish-Kurdish conflict, which risked taking thousands of lives.” Forget U.S. President Donald Trump’s efforts to claim credit for a ceasefire deal with Ankara, Putin’s supporters in Moscow believe that it was Putin alone who managed to find the solution and negotiate a deal with Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan that prevented a Turkish-Kurdish bloodbath. Whoever is responsible, the arrangement is essentially on Erdogan’s terms, opening the way for ethnic cleansing as Kurdish troops withdraw, Kurdish civilians flee, and Erdogan plans to move millions of Syrian Arabs, most of them from other parts of the country, into what Erdogan calls a “safe zone.”Yet Aleksey Venediktov, editor-in-chief of the influential independent radio station Echo of Moscow, tweeted last week as that deal came down: “They tell me at the top: ‘Now you understand, Putin deserves a Nobel Peace Prize.’” He said his high-level sources were telling him Putin’s Syria deal was like “the new Camp David Accord,” putting it on a par with the 1978 agreement brokered by President Jimmy Carter that ended generations of war between Israel and Egypt. In truth, the Russian leader has been looking to win The Prize for years. Ever since Time magazine put Putin on the cover as Person of the Year in 2007, the Kremlin’s ideologues have believed that the West recognizes Putin as the world’s preeminent politician—and peacemaker—and no wars in Georgia, Ukraine or Syria could dissuade them.Putin’s greatest accomplishment on that score probably came in 2013 when President Barack Obama was weighing the possibility of major military strikes on the Bashar al-Assad regime to retaliate for its use of chemical weapons, and Putin stepped in with a better—or at least more peaceful—plan. He persuaded Assad, first, to admit he had a chemical arsenal, which he had never done before. Then Assad agreed to U.N. inspections as he eliminated everything he admitted to having, and by all accounts the vast majority of those gruesome weapons were destroyed. At the time, that seemed like a major war averted, and therefore a pathway to peace.So at the beginning of 2014 a Russian advocacy group called the International Academy of Spiritual Unity and Cooperation of People put Putin up for the prize.Unfortunately for Putin’s aspirations, there’s quite a long delay between the nominations at the beginning of the year, and the awards at the end, and Putin was not exactly making peace in 2014. Reacting to a popular pro-European, largely anti-Russian uprising in Ukraine, he seized the Crimean Peninsula, annexed it to Russia, and poured support into separatist rebels in Eastern Ukraine. The death toll soon climbed into the thousands, with hundreds of thousands of people displaced. In July 2014 a Russian-supplied missile shot down a Malaysian Airliner en route from Amsterdam to Kuala Lumpur with 298 people on board, all of whom died.If anyone argued in 2014, as Markov suggests, that Putin should have gotten a peace prize for not staging a massive, direct invasion of Ukraine to take the large cities of Kharkiv and Dnepropetrovsk, the Nobel Committee in Norway clearly was not persuaded. It gave the 2014 prize to Kailash Satyarthi and Malala Yousafzai ""for their struggle against the suppression of children and young people and for the right of all children to education.""Russia’s record in Syria has been equally bloody since it entered the fight directly to support Assad in 2015.  One recent example was a Russian-Syrian military strike on a center for hundreds of displaced people in the town of Haas in Idlib that killed 20 civilians in August. A Human Rights Watch investigation published in October qualified the attack as “an apparent war crime.” Sara Kayyali who monitors the violations on the ground for HRW, tells The Daily Beast that “Russian strikes on protected humanitarian infrastructure” have been common in the areas where they operate, with “severely negative consequences.”Now, says Kayyali, “Russia has brokered an agreement with Turkey around a so-called ‘safe zone,’ but as history has proved again and again, safe zones are rarely safe.” President Putin’s spokesman Dmitry Peskov gloated last week, saying, ""The United States was the closest ally of the Kurds during the last few years, and in the end the U.S. ditched the Kurds and effectively betrayed them."" By arranging for the withdrawal of the fighters, Peskov suggested, Russia is at least saving their lives. The United States looks foolish and treacherous, to be sure. But some analysts suggest Russia’s schadenfreude is premature. David Aaron Miller at the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace notes that among some in Washington, “Animosity toward Trump and Putin—richly deserved—is clouding the analysis on Syria  and triggering overreaction about Russia’s gains.”As Miller points out, “Russia has been the dominant external power in Syria since at least the 1970s. And the U.S. withdrawal has no doubt consolidated that and elevated Russia’s role in the region. But we shouldn’t overestimate Moscow’s gains.  They now preside over a broken country that will take years and billions to heal. They are shackled with a pariah regime—both entitled and dependent—that will continue to alienate the majority of the Sunni population; they face a resurgent ISIS and are now shackled with responsibility for managing both the Turkish-Syrian-Kurdish triangle and a potential Israeli-Iranian conflict.”“The idea of giving Putin a Nobel Peace Prize sounds ridiculous after years of this dirty war in Syria, the Russian military violating international law, using banned weapons, bombing hospitals and clinics,” Tania Lokshina, Europe and Central Asia associate director at Human Rights Watch Moscow, told The Daily Beast. But still the dream lives on, revived by the agreement moving the Kurds out of the region near the Turkish border. Last week the Russian news agency riafan.ru headlined: “Foreigners propose to award Putin with a Nobel Prize for peace in Syria.” The deadline for Nobel nominations is January 31. One can only guess at the peace initiatives Putin will carry out between now and then.Is Trump Saving Those Syrian Oil Fields for the Russians?Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/C728yqrklY8Mh7Xi5loohQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/e70ee07a1d2376c102a6d1bd9026dece,A Nobel Peace Prize for Vladimir Putin? That’s the Talk in Moscow. -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:27:22 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/trump-says-rep-steve-scalise-144840649.html,"Trump recalled how Scalise's wife Jennifer was extremely distraught, saying, ""not many wives would react that way to tragedy, I know mine wouldn't.""",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/E5u5AoVSVzxJYNn3hUeSug--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/ab98bc63a8efb7b6a5144f8f815b565c,"Trump says after Rep. Steve Scalise got shot his wife 'cried her eyes out', joking 'not many wives would react that way ... I know mine wouldn't'" -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:43:01 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/latest-fire-erupts-san-bernardino-112830955.html,"Officials say a wildfire burning in Northern California's wine country that forced the evacuation of more than 180,000 people is now 60% contained and has not increased in size since Wednesday. California Department of Forestry and Fire Protection officials said Thursday that firefighting crews working through the night increased their control of the fire from 45% containment. The fire started last week near the town of Geyserville in Sonoma County north of San Francisco and has scorched about 120 square miles (311 square kilometers).",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/2sptUHoUhwVZ3QxYtYAMfg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/e59db5b3d01481e820049f6a2a08ae46,The Latest: Northern California wildfire now 60% contained -Impeachment trial could complicate Democratic senators' U.S. presidential bids,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:06:04 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/impeachment-trial-could-complicate-democratic-100604502.html,"Democratic U.S. senators vying for the party's 2020 presidential nomination face the increasing likelihood of being tethered to Washington for President Donald Trump's impeachment trial just as they need to ramp up efforts in early-voting states. With the U.S. House of Representatives set to vote on Thursday on next steps in the impeachment probe, lawmakers there anticipate the investigation could wrap up by year's end or early 2020, at which point the process will move to the Senate. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Republican, has said a trial requiring the presence of the full Senate could take place six days a week.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/NBP5ObIps5m5Czjd4rcFZA--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/91e91d747543a06790c063c82047aae0,Impeachment trial could complicate Democratic senators' U.S. presidential bids -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Netflix Drops Horrifying Camp Fire Documentary ‘Fire in Paradise’ as California Burns,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:39:58 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/netflix-drops-horrifying-camp-fire-093958850.html,"Karl Mondon/GettyLike people, wildfires aren’t born coherent or fully formed. They rarely have one direction or one goal. Fires are fluid and disparate, made up of smaller blazes and embers, some of which might merge into irrational explosions or veer off in different directions. (Scientists have dubbed this odd meandering, not “fire movement” or “fire patterns,” but “fire behavior”). Today, Los Angeles, like Sonoma County, is on fire. The city smells like everyone is having a cookout. On maps, the evacuation zone is drawn in hard lines, starting just five miles from where I’m writing this—a box framed by Mulholland Drive in the north, the 405 in the east, Sunset Boulevard in the south and Temescal Canyon Road in the west. But with hurricane-like winds predicted this week, there remains some uncertainty about just where, exactly, the blaze might go. Unlike actual flames, the stories of fire have a predictable arc: low humidity, dry fuel, some small ignition (a cigarette, a powerline), ferocious wind, dispatch calls, mobile alerts, confused evacuators, missing heirlooms, lost lives, thousands of tired firefighters, and later, aerial photos of the earth, burnt into a scar. The familiarity makes the worst fire stories the hardest to tell. How do you capture the chaos of a place like Paradise—leveled last year by the Camp Fire, California’s deadliest in a century—when we all know the end? One hundred and fifty thousand acres burned. Nineteen thousand structures were destroyed. Eighty-five people, most of them disabled or elderly, dead. In that sense, Fire in Paradise, a new documentary directed by Drea Cooper and Zackary Canepari which streams on Netflix this Friday, doesn’t break ground. The tight, 40-minute film isn’t an exercise in narrative form. There’s no narration at all. It’s a time capsule—a minute-by-minute replay, told by the people who lived it and spliced with source footage: dispatch calls, cellphone videos, and clips from an eerily upbeat weatherman. But it’s also a forecast, both for what the state will undergo these next few weeks, and what will replay in fire seasons to come. Inside L.A.’s High-End Getty Fire Evacuation CenterThe Weird Weather Fanning the Flames in CaliforniaFire in Paradise opens with an omen—at once self-conscious and effective. The camera pans on a forest, dry but unburned. An answering machine beeps in the background and a robocall sets the scene. “This is an important safety alert from Pacific Gas & Electric Company,” the monotone voice says. “Extreme weather conditions and high fire danger are forecasted in Butte County, starting Thursday, November 8, 2018.” Months after that morning, investigators would find the utility company responsible for as many as 10 of the fires which scorched the state last year. It’s another reminder of the film as forecast—this season, PG&E; has already taken heat for at least one inferno, and cutting power to millions across the state, leaving some to escape in the dark with little warning. As the voiceover continues, a square screen appears over the forest, playing a montage of home videos. Families bowl; a man fishes; couples dance and swim; kids dressed as cowboys hop a potato-sack race. “To protect public safety,” the robovoice goes on, “PG&E; may temporarily turn off power in your neighborhood or community.” The screen goes black. “Please have your emergency plan ready.”The account of the following hours unfold through interviews with residents and first responders—when they heard about the fire, when they got scared, when they fled. The most powerful moments don’t come from the speakers describing the fire. One of the unnerving things about extreme natural disasters is how language fails to keep pace with their severity: “It got bad real quick,” one dispatcher says. Another resident echoes: “It felt unreal.” Instead, the strongest scenes emerge from people describing people. At one point, an auburn-haired teacher named Mary Ludwig recalls boarding a bus filled with students, watching them yawn from the low-oxygen air, and making impromptu masks from the driver’s shirt and the sole water bottle on board. She hoped they wouldn’t work: “We prayed that we would die of smoke inhalation.” Later, resident Joy Beeson, a wry elderly woman with blue nail polish and a pink fleece, describes escaping with her son. “I ran out in my Skechers and my pajamas,” she says. “I was running out of breath, and my son put his hand on my back and said, ‘You’ve got to run now, Mama.’” When Beeson pushed ahead, a burning tree fell where she stood just seconds before: “My son saved my life.” A third survivor, a Cal Fire captain named Sean Norman, remembers evacuating a family that didn’t want to leave. If you don’t go, he told them, you will die. As the fire bore down, Norman couldn’t keep convincing them. He fled. “They survived,” he says, choking up. “They don’t like me very much. But at least they’re around to not like me.” Still, what makes Fire in Paradise essential viewing isn’t anything the subjects said or the directors captured. It comes from the amateurs, from the cellphone videos filmed from inside cars or while fleeing on foot. Near the end of the movie, the inevitable aerial shot arrives, revealing city blocks reduced to black squares. In the background, newscasters list unthinkable numbers: 77 deaths so far, 1,000 missing people. Then, the camera cuts to a stunning recording. It’s shot by an anonymous man walking through his old town. The landscape is so scorched the tape looks sepia. Only a few faint colors (a fleck of car paint, a blue flame) prove otherwise. The man pans toward the remains of a few cars, narrating in a squeaky voice. “Now this is the poor guy,” he says, “came down to get my crippled friend out.” He zooms in on the front car. It could be a Honda or a Dodge or a Geo or really any smallish, average car. Identifying markers have all been burned away. “He didn’t make it. None of these people made it down here. These people all got burnt up. I was right down below them here.” The man approaches the shattered windshield, focusing on the hollowed-out front seats. “My friend, you can see he’s dead.” In fact, you can’t see it. The images are unintelligible, all abstract lumps and black lines. But then he pans to a window, and something comes into focus: a blackened skull, and beneath it, bones. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/33hwbB28ORhRhZQMKMgv9Q--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/b918ec5adac82db62f87f4da32698588,Netflix Drops Horrifying Camp Fire Documentary ‘Fire in Paradise’ as California Burns -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 02:17:26 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/qantas-grounds-boeing-737-plane-crack-inspects-others-013140640.html,"Australian flag carrier Qantas said Thursday it had grounded one Boeing 737NG due to a structural crack, and was urgently inspecting 32 others for the flaw. The grounding is the latest safety concern for Boeing, as it reels from two 737 MAX crashes that killed 346 people and highlighted problems with the planes' flight handling software. The US aviation authority this month ordered checks of Boeing 737NG planes that had flown more than 30,000 times.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/QdlwI7FUT2UCdKbRpn0jtw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/dbb7d54772fd3991e089d08482d5f8d74f73dff6.jpg,"Qantas grounds Boeing 737 plane with crack, inspects others" -"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:18:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/boeing-facing-fresh-crisis-another-111802622.html,Qantas found cracks in a 737NG plane that had flown fewer times than the planes the US Federal Aviation Administration had ordered to be inspected.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/F2uYIYha9V91J6iBdUe..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/business_insider_articles_888/4254e0c231552fc69429e15c3561751e,"Boeing is facing a fresh crisis after another airline found cracks in a 737 plane, adding to a growing number of airlines grounding some of the planes" -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:30:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/convicted-rapist-mistakenly-released-georgia-123000391.html,"Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released ""in error."" Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YoEbsalyavrYoNwveoHhzg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/72a486a1d22695356eaf40bde507240f,Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:37:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-group-announces-successor-153846160.html,"The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. The speaker in the audio also confirmed the death of Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, a close aide of al-Baghdadi and a spokesman for the group since 2016.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fivXDH2rwHyqVQcwyhaFIw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dfbeabe545288a1916e6d2fb2fb1776b,Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:00:38 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/house-democrats-face-question-impeach-pence-or-make-him-president-090012685.html,"If the House approves impeachment, and if the Senate votes to remove Trump, Pence would become president. Would he make a better president?",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/Z3VG5Hx16YaZq2pevUBETg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media-mbst-pub-ue1.s3.amazonaws.com/creatr-images/2019-10/deb28d30-fb5b-11e9-bfef-ef163d511377,"House Democrats face question: Impeach Pence, or make him president?" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:37:25 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/islamic-state-group-announces-successor-153846160.html,"The Islamic State group declared a new leader Thursday after it confirmed the death of its leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi days earlier in a U.S raid in Syria. In its audio release by the IS central media arm, al-Furqan Foundation, a new spokesman for IS identifies the successor as Abu Ibrahim al-Hashimi al-Qurayshi — tracing his lineage, like al-Baghdadi, to the Prophet Muhammad's Quraysh tribe. The speaker in the audio also confirmed the death of Abu Hassan al-Muhajir, a close aide of al-Baghdadi and a spokesman for the group since 2016.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/fivXDH2rwHyqVQcwyhaFIw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/ap.org/dfbeabe545288a1916e6d2fb2fb1776b,Islamic State group announces successor to al-Baghdadi -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" -Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 07:47:50 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chicago-teachers-strike-continues-11th-114750309.html,The Chicago Teachers Union voted to accept a tentative agreement with Mayor Lori Lightfoot. But the mayor says she won't pay teachers for striking.,http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/YnSsxtTtC88ps4TdTv75uw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-us/usa_today_news_641/c71cecd1e261f0b8c23310eb597532ac,Chicago teachers strike continues into 11th day over one last demand: Make up strike days -"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:48:39 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/g-m-union-members-return-104839179.html,GM autoworkers returned to work with a new contract after their longest nationwide strike in nearly 50 years. Here's where they stand now.,http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/ba3mWr.8ASTQgIis1MyRfQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/time_72/ab5f71c6022adf9707a5e8ca93cc8cde,"G.M. Union Members Return to Work, but Worries Are Far From Over" -Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:50:02 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/why-tories-cruising-toward-big-095002680.html,"The polling is clear. Over the more than three years since they voted to leave the European Union, British voters have come to regret their choice. Polls consistently show a several-point margin in favor of Remain, only one in three voters will endorse the proposition that getting Brexit over with is better than further delay, and two thirds believe that a no-deal Brexit should require another referendum.So why are Boris Johnson's Tories, running on a clearer stance for Brexit than ever before, currently projected to win a decisive victory in the December election?The simplest answer is: the opposition is divided. But that answer obscures more than it reveals, because it presumes that the question of Brexit is as dominant among the opposition as it is among the Tories. And the division of the opposition itself proves that this is not the case. On the contrary: Brexit is a truly existential question for a far larger fraction of Leave voters than it is of Remain voters, and that has had and continues to have material electoral consequences.Consider the largest opposition party. Labour under Jeremy Corbin has trended in an overwhelmingly left-wing direction, not only on economic matters but also on immigration and foreign policy. A ""no enemies on the left"" approach has even seen extremist illiberal and anti-Semitic elements gain a greater foothold within the party. But on Brexit, Corbyn has taken a somewhat ambiguous stance, reflecting the fact that while a majority of Labourites voted Remain, a not insignificant number had always been skeptical of an economic arrangement that gave financial interests greater influence at both the national and European levels of government.That combination of stridency and straddle hasn't played well in electoral terms, and has opened space for two other parties to establish themselves as alternatives: the Liberal Democrats, a longstanding centrist liberal party that has positioned itself as the unequivocal party of Remain, and the Brexit Party, a newly-minted political faction founded by Nigel Farage, the former leader of the U.K. Independence Party. At one point this past summer, both parties looked capable of surpassing the Tories, and possibly Labour as well.Since Boris Johnson took the premiership, though, the picture has changed dramatically. The Brexit party has fallen back to 10-12 percent in the polls, while the Tories have surged to the mid-to-high 30s. Moreover, Farage has intimated that he might cooperate with the Tories strategically, targeting constituencies where left-wing Leave voters are concentrated to pull them away from Labour, while staying away from seats that would be contested between the Remain-oriented Liberal Democrats and the Leave-oriented Tories.How could such a strategy work if Brexit is only getting less-popular with time? The answer comes down to intensity and cohesion.If Tory Remain voters -- of which there were many -- cared more about stopping Brexit than they did about the fate of their party, they would defect to the Liberal Democrats, badly damaging the Tories' chances of winning a majority. Similarly, if Labour Remain voters felt that Brexit was the most important issue, they would either have pushed Corbyn to a more decisive Remain stance, or would be working strategically with the Liberal Democrats in the way that the Brexit Party may work with the Tories. And the Liberal Democrats would be doing the same.But while Brexit may be a politically-defining event for the liberal center, for the left this is their first chance at power since the 1970s -- not something to be traded away lightly for the sake of free trade with Germany or even stability in Ireland. Even for liberal centrists, the choice between Corbyn and Johnson may be a tough one. For the right, meanwhile, the party as a whole seems to have come to realize that while the hard Leave voters are a minority in the country, they hold the balance of power within the Tory coalition. If they are not given the wheel, the coach isn't going anywhere.Now they have the wheel, and a Leave coalition looks likely to triumph decisively, in spite of all regrets.What happens then? The opposition could continue to come up with explanations for why the result doesn't truly reflect the will of the people -- blaming the electoral system, for instance (though in current polling the Tory-plus-Brexit coalition outpolls Labour-plus-Lib-Dems by an average of five points, suggesting even proportional representation would give victory to the Brexiteers). But they would be wiser to focus on the future. No longer dependent on the votes of Irish Unionists, nor needing to cater to the concerns of the Scottish Nationalists, a big Tory majority could govern from the center of England rather than Britain.The biggest post-Brexit challenge may not be how to get Britain back into Europe, but how to hold Britain itself together.Want more essential commentary and analysis like this delivered straight to your inbox? Sign up for The Week's ""Today's best articles"" newsletter here.",,Why the Tories are cruising toward a big win in Britain -Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:05 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/death-sentence-confirmed-against-four-102505231.html,"A Moroccan appeals court upheld, late on Wednesday, death sentences against three Moroccan men for murdering two Scandinavian women in the Atlas mountains last December. A fourth man was also handed capital punishment after he was sentenced to life in prison by an anti-terrorism court on July 18. The other three were handed death sentences at the time.",,Death sentence confirmed against four men in Morocco backpacker murders -Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 12:10:31 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/chris-christie-among-lawyers-reaping-133349408.html,"(Bloomberg) -- The biggest recovery ever from an American anti-corruption crackdown is proving lucrative for former New Jersey Governor Chris Christie.A major deal struck by the U.S. for fugitive financier Jho Low to give up almost $1 billion in assets allegedly stolen from a Malaysian investment fund comes with a provision to pay his lawyers. As part of the 1MDB settlement, the Justice Department allowed for $15 million to be paid to a group advising Jho Low, including the law firm Christie set up after two terms as New Jersey’s governor.Those proceeds will come from Jho Low’s stake in EMI Music Publishing, which has grown to about $415 million. That investment ballooned after he initially put in a little more than $100 million stolen from 1MDB, according to prosecutors. The two sides agreed to the provision to allow the lawyers to extract fees from Low, whose assets and accounts have been seized or monitored by authorities across the world.“We were pleased to help negotiate this historic resolution in order to preserve the tremendous value of assets involved,” Christie said in a statement after the Justice Department announced the settlement agreement on Wednesday. It still needs approval from a federal judge.Christie, who ran for the Republican presidential nomination in 2016 before dropping out and endorsing Donald Trump, set up his own law firm last year, the Christie Law Firm LLC. The other firms that will receive proceeds of the 1MDB deal for legal expenses are Kobre & Kim LLP and Lowenstein Sandler LLP.The agreement comes even before the criminal charges against Low have been resolved. In the settlement, the Justice Department cautioned that the released funds should be used only for the Low family’s legal fees and costs related to the lawsuits, and can’t be routed back to Low or his family.The cases were resolved in a “collaborative and fair way that includes payment of our legal fees,” said Robin Rathmell, a lawyer at Kobre & Kim.(Updates with lawyer’s comment in last paragraph.)To contact the reporter on this story: Sridhar Natarajan in New York at snatarajan15@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Michael J. Moore at mmoore55@bloomberg.net, Daniel Taub, David S. JoachimFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/PbVaTWepxvVbXr53TcCujQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/f6e0823b2c5d5c67a6bef851e5731153,Chris Christie Among Lawyers Making $15 Million in 1MDB Pact -Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:08:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/harry-dunn-police-interview-diplomat-130846041.html,"British police have conducted an interview with the wife of an American diplomat suspected of involvement in a crash that killed Harry Dunn.Northamptonshire Police passed details of their interview with Anne Sacoolas, 42, to the Crown Prosecution Service, it is understood.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/.wf73F8icRUo.yzE2xR..g--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_independent_635/ad7372f016168eff10c6a18c68bd0149,Harry Dunn: Police interview diplomat’s wife who fled under diplomatic immunity as family demands chief constable quit -Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 11:29:46 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/play-win-dodge-challenger-hellcat-152946140.html,"Take your shot to win one potent Mopar.The Dodge Horsepower Challenge: 5 Weeks. 5 Questions. 5 Challengers. As a thank you to Dodge customers and enthusiasts for reaching the 500 million horsepower goal early, the automaker has launched Brotherhood of Muscle With Horsepower Challenge. The first challenge starts on November 5th and ending on November 11th, and five new owners will compete to take home a special-edition TorRed Dodge Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye.Every Tuesday, Dodge.com will post a horsepower-inspired question in multiple choice form. The first weekly ""Dodge Horsepower Challenge"" will be announced by professional wrestler Bill Goldberg for challengers to win one sweet Challenger. Each Tuesday, Goldberg will announce the question starting at 8 a.m. ET, and the question will remain through Monday until 11:59 p.m. The answer to the week's question can be found on Dodge.com (following Tuesday) a week after its release at 8 a.m.The challenge offers one clue per day, and this comes in the form of hidden hashtags within an image. The clues will be posted in Dodge's Twitter and Instagram social channels to help with the week's question. You must answer one of the weekly multiple choice questions correctly to be eligible to win the Challenger.""At Dodge, we know that no matter how much horsepower you have, a little more can't hurt. So we're giving all our loyal fans an opportunity to get one of our highest horsepower Challenger models for free,"" said Tim Kuniskis, Global Head of Alfa Romeo and Head of Passenger Cars – Dodge, SRT, Chrysler and FIAT, FCA – North America. ""Unfortunately, there isn't really any such thing as free horsepower, so these five lucky Dodge fans will have to earn their way in by answering a horsepower question. Ok, the questions are ridiculously difficult, but it is a free Challenger SRT Hellcat Redeye, and we'll help you along the way."" For official rules, visit Dodge.com.Source: FCA North America Read More... * It’s Haunting How Much This 275K 2010 Callway Corvette Is Listed For * eBay Find: Jet Powered Batmobile Is A Treat, Not A Trick",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/DI4ApBbfYcHRgzJTXAw6Dw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en_us/autoclassics_668/56995ac6789f33211d6cf5314cba09a2,Play To Win A Dodge Challenger Hellcat Redeye With Horsepower Challenge -U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 03:24:00 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/u-navy-beware-russian-submarines-072400651.html,The Russian navy in mid-October 2019 sortied eight submarines in the country’s biggest undersea exercise since the Cold War.,http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/bi4TcYlAoP1s_M9PvaD4zQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/the_national_interest_705/723f75445632ef8d61a19a10be6803ae,U.S. Navy Beware! Russian Submarines Surge Into the Atlantic -India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 08:50:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/india-farmers-plan-nationwide-protest-125007797.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. India’s farmers’ organizations have planned a nationwide protest on Nov. 4 to demand that the government of Prime Minister Narendra Modi keep agriculture out of a 16-nation trade agreement currently being negotiated in Thailand.The All India Kisan Sangharsh Coordination Committee, an umbrella organization of about 250 farmers unions from across the country, said that they will burn effigies depicting the China-backed Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership or RCEP, to mark their protest and warn the government.Indian farmers won’t be able to compete should the country agree to cut duties for agricultural and dairy products in the proposed trade pact, said V.M. Singh, a convener of the the farmers’ group. Imports of dairy and agricultural products including wheat, cotton and oil seeds would affect the livelihood of millions of Indian farmers, he said.The government should defer signing of the agreement and hold consultations with farmers, state governments and other stake holders before taking a final decision, said Singh. “We have to stop RCEP,” he said.It is not clear yet what terms India will agree to in order to join what could become the world’s largest trade deal. The final stage of negotiations have begun in Bangkok and Indian trade minister Piyush Goyal will travel for the ministerial meeting there on Nov. 1. The nations are seeking to conclude the negotiations by November end.To contact the reporter on this story: Bibhudatta Pradhan in New Delhi at bpradhan@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Ruth Pollard at rpollard2@bloomberg.net, Muneeza Naqvi, Abhay SinghFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/GF2o4tZmPCtqpE8IuBOemg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/38b9b9b23d04b76ac5ea78347d209b84,India Farmers Plan Nationwide Protest Against 16-Nation Trade Deal -Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 09:13:07 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/authorities-identify-fly-creek-jane-131307745.html,"On a chilly February Sunday in 1980, a father and son panning for gold along Fly Creek in Clark County, Washington, kicked up the remains of a human skeleton that appeared to have been buried in a shallow grave. They called the authorities who came to collect the skull and what bones hadn’t been dragged away by animals, and were able to use the remains to construct a facial reconstruction that produced a picture of a teenage girl. Detectives were able to deduce that she died from a cause that did not seem natural. Calls for information, searches through missing persons reports, and detective work turned up nothing. No one seemed to miss the teen, dubbed the ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe,’ and, for the last 40 years, that is as far as the case went–until now.This summer Clark County detectives decided to post a DNA sample from the old remains to the Virginia-based Parabon NanoLabs, a public genealogy database that has had recent success closing old cold cases. The lab found a tie to a distant cousin of a teen named Sandra “Sandy” Renee Morden who said she was last seen in 1977–three years before her skeletal remains were found. Courtesy of Clark County SheriffThe Oregonian then dug up an old birthday announcement that was tied to the case. On April 29, 1977, in the classified section of the paper, a tiny ad appeared that said: “Sandra Renee Morden, Happy 15th Birthday. Love Always—Mom.” Such published greetings were a common way to mark a birthday or anniversary in the era before Facebook and other social media. Morden’s parents were divorced, according to the DNA-linked cousin, who does not want to be named and who provided Clark County cold-case detective Lindsay Schultz with the only clues the teen’s life. Schultz told the Oregonian that Morden was a “latchkey kid” who was mostly “unsupervised.” There is no indication that the parents filed a missing persons report, and, as Schultz says, “We didn’t have [the National Crime Information Center] at that time.” The detective says Morden’s parents came from the San Francisco area and settled in Portland. They split up in the early 1970s, and did not communicate with each other. The girl’s mother, identified as Kathryn Irene Morden, apparently lost custody and the cousin said Sandy most often stayed with her father, identified as Andrew Bain Morden, a Marine Corps veteran who fought in the Korean War. Schultz says she likely fell through the cracks when one parent thought the other had her. She last attended Wilson High School in Portland. Schultz told the Oregonian that the father likely thought she was with her mother. He had left her alone for an extended period of time and when he came back, she was gone, so he assumed she had gone to her mother’s home. “We don’t know for certain,” Schultz says. “We know that’s what family members believe.”Both parents are dead, so there is no way to confirm what either of them knew. Schultz told the Oregonian that it is the birthday greeting that bothers him most. It was posted around the time the extended family says she disappeared. “Was it just a mom who loved her daughter–or did her mom know something and put it out there for that reason?” Schultz said. “It’s one of those two, right? You ponder it. You look at it and you think, ‘What does it mean?’”Now detectives are looking for the missing puzzle pieces. They are calling on anyone who might have any information about Morden, her parents, or how she might have died to contact the Clark County Medical Examiner's Office or Clark County Sheriff's Office Cold Case Tip Line.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/SDZIwGol7i490n6I1E3hMQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/thedailybeast.com/3aad454293f39aeae0ac3a45c8f7da7d,Authorities Identify ‘Fly Creek Jane Doe’ Through DNA and Now the Real Questions Start -Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:25:57 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/deadly-quake-hits-south-philippines-043327444.html,"A powerful earthquake struck the southern Philippines on Thursday, killing at least five people and sparking searches of seriously damaged buildings that had already been rattled by two previous deadly tremors in recent weeks. The 6.5 magnitude quake hit the island of Mindanao, the US Geological Survey said, causing locals to run to safety in the same area where a strong tremor killed eight people on Tuesday.",http://l1.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/oxJU6vOIe9DkaGFCYNFTBg--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/http://media.zenfs.com/en_us/News/afp.com/7204c1bd2a1dbd11425cb4611ee082b5910fb343.jpg,Third deadly quake in weeks hits south Philippines -Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 05:04:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/striking-chicago-teachers-press-final-090429999.html,"Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot called on the city's teacher's union to embrace a ""spirit of compromise"" as a strike that has kept 300,000 public students away from school extended into an 11th day on Thursday, despite a tentative contract deal. ""Our members are tired, frustrated and miss their students ... we want to return to the classroom,"" Chicago Teachers Union President Jesse Sharkey said in a statement on Thursday. Lightfoot, a first-term Democrat, has rejected the demand for makeup days, and accused the union of reneging on a deal reached Wednesday with the third-largest U.S. school district.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7h2yexlXJzv_BIJZ2S3mkw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en-US/reuters.com/990aac4bbc2f8cf6d00b65ee291edc50,Chicago mayor seeks 'spirit of compromise' as teachers strike hits 11th day -China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones,"Thu, 31 Oct 2019 10:33:59 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/china-responds-reports-u-grounding-143359231.html,"China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would ""stop abusing the concept of national security"" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.",http://l2.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/7PQM1BUYpSL9xxiFkSHKDQ--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://slick-prod.s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/slick_thumb/yahooNews-314557-1572532267028.jpg,China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones -"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy","Thu, 31 Oct 2019 06:46:29 -0400",https://news.yahoo.com/kgb-judged-comrade-v-v-104629972.html,"(Bloomberg) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin was “prompt, disciplined and conscientious” as a spy in the KGB, according to a declassified profile from the Soviet Union’s feared security service.“Comrade V.V. Putin constantly improves his ideological and political standards,” according to the document exhibited at the Central State Archive for Historical-Political Documents of St. Petersburg, the Russian leader’s home city. “He’s actively engaged in party education work.”The profile, which is also on show at a Moscow exhibition of “outstanding figures” of modern Russian history, describes Putin as “morally upstanding” and enjoying “well-deserved authority among colleagues,” noting that he won a judo championship in 1978.Putin joined the KGB in 1975 after graduating from the law faculty of Leningrad State University, located in what’s now St. Petersburg, and served as a spy for more than 15 years until the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Putin asked to become a KGB officer even before he finished school, according to his Kremlin biography, which cites him saying his view of the organization “was based on idealistic stories I heard about intelligence.”He served in Dresden in East Germany from 1985 until 1990, rising to the rank of lieutenant colonel during a largely undistinguished stint, and was awarded a bronze medal for service to the National People’s Army of the German Democratic Republic. He headed the Federal Security Service, the main successor agency of the KGB, in 1998-1999 before President Boris Yeltsin made him prime minister and named Putin as his chosen successor. Putin was elected president in 2000.The KGB’s appraisal of Putin, which appears to be from the late 1970s or early 1980s, was absolutely standard and showed that he hadn’t stood out or achieved anything in particular, according to Alexei Kondaurov, a former KGB general. “Usually we wrote ‘morally upstanding’ when there was nothing else to say,” he said.Still, there’s been “colossal” public interest in the document, shown as part of commemorations of the archive’s 90th anniversary, said Olga Bobrova, deputy head of the institution.To contact the reporters on this story: Irina Reznik in Moscow at ireznik@bloomberg.net;Henry Meyer in Moscow at hmeyer4@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gregory L. White at gwhite64@bloomberg.net, Tony Halpin, Paul AbelskyFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.",http://l.yimg.com/uu/api/res/1.2/kJfS_a3lsxwsLmK3nqmkSw--/YXBwaWQ9eXRhY2h5b247aD04Njt3PTEzMDs-/https://media.zenfs.com/en/bloomberg_politics_602/3343959f3d0120edaf7d32af41ccf2fc,"KGB Judged ‘Comrade V.V. Putin’ a Disciplined, Conscientious Spy" diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6226a00 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv @@ -0,0 +1,5 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +"One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers","Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:42:24 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/7xztEBsGMGk/index.html,Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker staked their careers when they organized the Google walkout in November 2018. It was a risk they felt they had to take.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/7xztEBsGMGk, +Russia rolls out its 'sovereign internet',"Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:21:25 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vztqGYJG8oY/index.html,"On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called ""sovereign internet"" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vztqGYJG8oY, +"One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers","Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:42:24 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/7xztEBsGMGk/index.html,Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker staked their careers when they organized the Google walkout in November 2018. It was a risk they felt they had to take.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/7xztEBsGMGk, +Russia rolls out its 'sovereign internet',"Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:21:25 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vztqGYJG8oY/index.html,"On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called ""sovereign internet"" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vztqGYJG8oY, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..12337a6 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv @@ -0,0 +1,13 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html,• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE, +World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, +China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, +Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, +China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, +Tech stocks rally in Asia after news that a Huawei reprieve could come soon,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:57:36 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/RzbapX1NKyg/index.html,"Asian markets edged up on Monday, following last week's gains on Wall Street as well as news of a potential reprieve for Huawei.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/RzbapX1NKyg, +New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html,• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE, +World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, +China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, +Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, +China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, +Tech stocks rally in Asia after news that a Huawei reprieve could come soon,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:57:36 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/RzbapX1NKyg/index.html,"Asian markets edged up on Monday, following last week's gains on Wall Street as well as news of a potential reprieve for Huawei.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/RzbapX1NKyg, diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index ecf4337..ed7b109 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -5,9 +5,12 @@ from dateutil.parser import parse import lxml.html as html +import lxml.etree as etree import xml.etree.ElementTree as ET + import json import csv +import pandas as pd import argparse @@ -48,7 +51,14 @@ def get_news(self): :return: dictionary of news """ - request = requests.get(self.url) # TODO: catch all errors + try: + request = requests.get(self.url) + except requests.exceptions.MissingSchema: + print(f'Invalid URL: {self.url}. Paste items by yourself.') + return None + + if not request.ok: + raise requests.exceptions.InvalidURL(f'You URL is invalid. Status code: {request.status_code}') if self.verbose: print(request.status_code) # TODO: create understandable error status output @@ -72,7 +82,6 @@ def get_news(self): items.setdefault(num, {}) news_description = dict() - # TODO: set useful_tags as default tags! news_description.setdefault('title', 'no title') news_description.setdefault('pubDate', str(datetime.datetime.today().date())) @@ -107,7 +116,7 @@ def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash'): :return: None """ - date = NewsReader.get_date(news) + date = NewsReader.get_date(news['pubDate']) date = ''.join(str(date).split('-')) if not os.path.exists(dir): @@ -136,8 +145,8 @@ def read_by_date(date, dir='news_cash'): dates = os.listdir(dir) - if date not in dates: - pass # TODO: raise some exception + if date + '.csv' not in dates: + raise NewsNotFoundError('There is no chased news with such date') path = os.path.join(dir, date + '.csv') with open(path, 'r', encoding='UTF-8') as file: @@ -158,18 +167,20 @@ def read_by_date(date, dir='news_cash'): return items @staticmethod - def get_date(news): + def get_date(news_date): """ Returns date of news publication - :param news: dictionary of given news + :param news: string date from dictionary of given news :return: date of news publication """ - news_date = news['pubDate'] + try: + news_date = parse(news_date) + except ValueError: + print('There is not date. Today\'s has been pasted') + news_date = datetime.datetime.today() - # news_date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') - news_date = parse(news_date) news_date = news_date.date() return news_date @@ -192,6 +203,23 @@ def parse_description(description): return text, image_link, image_text + @staticmethod + def get_description(description): + """ + Remove all tags from raw description and + return just simple news description + + :param description: news description + :return: processed description + """ + + try: + node = html.fromstring(description) + except etree.ParserError: + return '' + + return node.text_content() + @staticmethod def get_image(description): """ @@ -218,20 +246,6 @@ def get_image(description): return image_src, image_description - @staticmethod - def get_description(description): - """ - Remove all tags from raw description and - return just simple news description - - :param description: news description - :return: processed description - """ - - node = html.fromstring(description) - - return node.text_content() - @staticmethod def news_text(news): """ @@ -252,7 +266,7 @@ def news_text(news): return result - def fancy_output(self): + def fancy_output(self, items): """ Output readable information about news from items dictionary @@ -263,7 +277,7 @@ def fancy_output(self): if self.verbose: print('News feed is ready') - for key, value in self.items.items(): + for key, value in items.items(): if key == 'title': print(f'Feed: {value}') else: @@ -287,12 +301,10 @@ def to_json(self): return json_result -# feed = NewsReader(' http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=None, cashing=True) -# print(feed.read_by_date('20191028')) -# it = feed.items - +feed = NewsReader('http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=10, cashing=True) +# items = feed.read_by_date('20190607') -# date = datetime.datetime.strptime(date, '%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z') +feed.fancy_output(feed.items) # def main(): # parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') @@ -306,7 +318,7 @@ def to_json(self): # # # TODO: add flags to output logs # parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') -# parser.add_argument('--date', type=datetime.datetime, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') +# parser.add_argument('--date', type=str, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') # # args = parser.parse_args() # print(args) @@ -319,10 +331,15 @@ def to_json(self): # news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) # # print(news.to_json()) +# elif args.date: +# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) +# items = news.read_by_date(args.date) +# +# news.fancy_output(items) # else: # news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) # -# news.fancy_output() +# news.fancy_output(news.items) # # # if __name__ == '__main__': diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader_unittest.py b/news_feed/rss_reader_unittest.py new file mode 100644 index 0000000..06aa7db --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader_unittest.py @@ -0,0 +1,54 @@ +import unittest +import datetime + +from rss_reader import NewsReader + + +class TestNewsReader(unittest.TestCase): + def setUp(self) -> None: + self.feed = NewsReader(url='no url') + + self.feed.items = {'title': 'CNN.com - RSS Channel - World', + 0: {'title': "New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight", 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html', 'description': "• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels", 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 1: {'title': "World's most profitable company to IPO", 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html', 'description': '', 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 2: {'title': 'China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger', 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html', 'description': '', 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 3: {'title': 'Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine', 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn', 'description': "Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.", 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 4: {'title': "China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years", 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html', 'description': "Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.", 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 5: {'title': 'One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers', 'pubDate': 'Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:42:24 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/7xztEBsGMGk/index.html', 'description': 'Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker staked their careers when they organized the Google walkout in November 2018. It was a risk they felt they had to take.', 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/7xztEBsGMGk', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 6: {'title': 'Tech stocks rally in Asia after news that a Huawei reprieve could come soon', 'pubDate': 'Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:57:36 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/RzbapX1NKyg/index.html', 'description': "Asian markets edged up on Monday, following last week's gains on Wall Street as well as news of a potential reprieve for Huawei.", 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/RzbapX1NKyg', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 7: {'title': "They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads", 'pubDate': 'Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html', 'description': 'Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.', 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 8: {'title': "Russia rolls out its 'sovereign internet'", 'pubDate': 'Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:21:25 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vztqGYJG8oY/index.html', 'description': 'On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called "sovereign internet" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.', 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vztqGYJG8oY', 'imageDescription': ''}, + 9: {'title': "US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters ", 'pubDate': 'Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:44:32 GMT', 'link': 'http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KlnsnygiAw8/index.html', 'description': "If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.", 'imageLink': 'http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KlnsnygiAw8', 'imageDescription': ''}} + + def test_get_date(self): + date_0 = str(self.feed.get_date(self.feed.items[0]['pubDate'])) + res_date_0 = str(datetime.datetime.today().date()) + self.assertEqual(date_0, res_date_0) + + date_1 = str(self.feed.get_date(self.feed.items[1]['pubDate'])) + res_date_1 = '2019-11-04' + self.assertEqual(date_1, res_date_1) + + date_7 = str(self.feed.get_date(self.feed.items[7]['pubDate'])) + res_date_7 = '2019-10-30' + self.assertEqual(date_7, res_date_7) + + def test_get_description(self): + description_0 = self.feed.get_description(self.feed.items[0]['description']) + res_description_0 = '• Air pollution reaches \'unbearable\' levels' + self.assertEqual(description_0, res_description_0) + + description_1 = self.feed.get_description(self.feed.items[1]['description']) + res_description_1 = '' + self.assertEqual(description_1, res_description_1) + + description_9 = self.feed.get_description(self.feed.items[9]['description']) + res_description_9 = 'If you\'re looking for a reason to care about tree loss, ' \ + 'the nation\'s latest heat wave might be it. Trees can ' \ + 'lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees ' \ + 'Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.' + self.assertEqual(description_9, res_description_9) + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + unittest.main() diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index 824ca24..a52ff66 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ] }, - install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0', 'dateutil'], + install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0', 'dateutil', 'requests'], python_requires='>=3.6' ) From cf20974be7e7d50be521b5b6c8fde7704b2904dd Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: vadbeg Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2019 17:03:28 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 10/11] News cashing without news repeating was added using pandas library --- news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv | 3 --- news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv | 3 --- news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv | 5 ----- news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv | 13 ------------- news_feed/rss_reader.py | 21 +++++++++++++++------ setup.py | 2 +- 6 files changed, 16 insertions(+), 31 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv delete mode 100644 news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv deleted file mode 100644 index cb3e0ba..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters ,"Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:44:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KlnsnygiAw8/index.html,"If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KlnsnygiAw8, -US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters ,"Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:44:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KlnsnygiAw8/index.html,"If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KlnsnygiAw8, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv deleted file mode 100644 index e4dd24b..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,3 +0,0 @@ -title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, -They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv deleted file mode 100644 index 6226a00..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191101.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,5 +0,0 @@ -title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -"One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers","Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:42:24 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/7xztEBsGMGk/index.html,Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker staked their careers when they organized the Google walkout in November 2018. It was a risk they felt they had to take.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/7xztEBsGMGk, -Russia rolls out its 'sovereign internet',"Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:21:25 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vztqGYJG8oY/index.html,"On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called ""sovereign internet"" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vztqGYJG8oY, -"One year after the Google walkout, key organizers reflect on the risk to their careers","Fri, 01 Nov 2019 20:42:24 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/7xztEBsGMGk/index.html,Claire Stapleton and Meredith Whittaker staked their careers when they organized the Google walkout in November 2018. It was a risk they felt they had to take.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/7xztEBsGMGk, -Russia rolls out its 'sovereign internet',"Fri, 01 Nov 2019 16:21:25 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/vztqGYJG8oY/index.html,"On Friday, a controversial new law took effect in Russia: The so-called ""sovereign internet"" law, which mandates the creation of an independent internet for Russia.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/vztqGYJG8oY, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv deleted file mode 100644 index 12337a6..0000000 --- a/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv +++ /dev/null @@ -1,13 +0,0 @@ -title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription -New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html,• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE, -World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, -China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, -Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, -China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, -Tech stocks rally in Asia after news that a Huawei reprieve could come soon,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:57:36 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/RzbapX1NKyg/index.html,"Asian markets edged up on Monday, following last week's gains on Wall Street as well as news of a potential reprieve for Huawei.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/RzbapX1NKyg, -New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html,• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE, -World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, -China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, -Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, -China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, -Tech stocks rally in Asia after news that a Huawei reprieve could come soon,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:57:36 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/RzbapX1NKyg/index.html,"Asian markets edged up on Monday, following last week's gains on Wall Street as well as news of a potential reprieve for Huawei.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/RzbapX1NKyg, diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index ed7b109..ec70e2c 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -119,18 +119,27 @@ def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash'): date = NewsReader.get_date(news['pubDate']) date = ''.join(str(date).split('-')) + values = list(news.values()) + column_names = list(news.keys()) + + data_temp = pd.DataFrame(data=[values], columns=column_names) + if not os.path.exists(dir): os.mkdir(dir) path = os.path.join(dir, date + '.csv') - with open(path, 'a', newline='', encoding='UTF-8') as file: - csv_writer = csv.writer(file, delimiter=',', - quotechar='"', quoting=csv.QUOTE_MINIMAL) - if os.path.getsize(path) == 0: - csv_writer.writerow(news.keys()) + if os.path.isfile(path): # If file exists -> load it into dataframe + data = pd.read_csv(path) + else: + data = pd.DataFrame(columns=column_names) + + is_unique = data_temp.isin(data['title']).sum().sum() + print(is_unique) - csv_writer.writerow(news.values()) + if not is_unique: + data = data.append(data_temp) + data.to_csv(path, index=False) @staticmethod def read_by_date(date, dir='news_cash'): diff --git a/setup.py b/setup.py index a52ff66..f0e53f9 100644 --- a/setup.py +++ b/setup.py @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ ] }, - install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0', 'dateutil', 'requests'], + install_requires=['lxml>=4.3.0', 'dateutil', 'requests', 'pandas'], python_requires='>=3.6' ) From 6b76c02950bff52ecb86476ec794f75db687e4f3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Vadim Titko Date: Tue, 5 Nov 2019 12:25:11 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 11/11] .gitignore was added --- .gitignore | 33 ++ .../format_converter.cpython-37.pyc | Bin 0 -> 6668 bytes .../__pycache__/rss_reader.cpython-37.pyc | Bin 6639 -> 8939 bytes news_feed/format_converter.py | 11 +- news_feed/news.pdf | Bin 187841 -> 33447 bytes news_feed/news2.html | 360 ++++++++++++++++++ news_feed/news2.pdf | Bin 0 -> 33447 bytes news_feed/news_cash/20190712.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191103.csv | 2 + news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv | 17 + news_feed/rss_reader.py | 119 ++++-- 13 files changed, 496 insertions(+), 52 deletions(-) create mode 100644 .gitignore create mode 100644 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Children were told to ‘build the wall’ at White House Halloween party

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:30:53 -0400

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A Halloween party on Oct. 25 at the Eisenhower Executive Office Building in D.C. featured candy, paper airplanes — and concerning for some attendees — a station where children were encouraged to help “Build the Wall” with their own personalized bricks.

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November 9, 1989: A day that changed the world

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:47:51 -0500

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Guenter Schabowski scratches his head, puts on his glasses, hesitates, then fumbles with his handwritten notes. A member of the Politburo of East Germany's communist party, and its spokesman, this member of the inner ruling circle of the "workers' and peasants' state", as the German Democratic Republic was known, just announced to a few flabbergasted journalists the fall of the Berlin Wall. Was it the result of a misunderstanding in the communist hierarchy, caught flat-footed by events, or a calculated gesture by the East German dictatorship which had reached the end of the line?

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China is reportedly sending men to sleep in the same beds as Uighur Muslim women while their husbands are in prison camps

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:03:10 -0500

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China is waging a hardline campaign against the Uighur ethnic minority, which has seen more than 1 million people detained in prison camps.

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Missing New Hampshire couple found buried on Texas beach, sheriff's office says

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:07:15 -0500

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Missing New Hampshire couple James and Elaine Bulter were found dead, buried on a beach in Kleberg County, Texas in an ongoing homicide investigation.

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Judge blocks Trump rule requiring prospective immigrants have health insurance

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 18:48:10 -0400

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Judge Michael Simon in U.S. District Court in Portland, Oregon, granted a 28-day temporary restraining order that prevents the rule from taking effect on Nov. 3. The legal challenge against it will continue. In an 18-page order, Simon said the potential damage to would-be immigrants and their families justified a nationwide block.

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The U.S. Military is Sending Thousands of Troops and Even B-1 Bombers into Saudi Arabia (To Counter Iran)

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 03:30:00 -0500

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And that is just for starters.

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‘Not our mission’: private fire crews protect the insured, not the public

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 06:00:22 -0500

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Agencies hired to protect assets look like first responders but, if a fire puts them in danger, they can become a liabilityFirefighters work to defend homes from an approaching wildfire in Sonoma, California. Photograph: Jim Urquhart/ReutersThe engines, big and small, came from all over the country to fight the Kincade fire in the Sonoma county wine region of California. There were trucks from Nevada, South Dakota, Colorado – and from the wildfire protection unit of home insurer AIG.As fires have increasingly encroached on development in California’s wildlands in recent years, communities are grappling with a new paradigm of risk. If the fire creates an existential crisis for people living in high-risk areas, it also creates one for the companies that insure their homes.Insurers of houses, timber and agriculture have contracted with private firefighting agencies for decades. But now, thanks to longer, more devastating fire seasons, the business is booming.While some wealthy communities and individuals have contracted their own private firefighting services to defend mansions on hilltops from flying embers, the majority of these agencies work on behalf of insurance companies. And as fire risk extends to more homes in California’s flammable brushland and forest, these crews are becoming a fixture in middle class neighborhoods. It is something of a return to a pre-American civil war model of pay-for-play firefighting, before the government employed first responders.Firefighters protect a Pacific Palisades area home in Los Angeles from the flames of a wildfire. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/Associated Press“Any policyholder that would like to have wildfire services, all they need to do is shop from more than a dozen insurers out there that have these services,” said David Torgerson, president of Wildfire Defense Systems, a private firefighting firm. “It’s not a special policy. It’s not something that’s exclusive. It’s something that the insurance industry has found brings value.”Insured losses for the 2018 California wildfire season topped $12bn. Insurance companies are looking for any way to reduce payouts in the future, whether by raising rates, dropping coverage, or putting new risk mitigation measures into place – including, in some cases, these kinds of private fire crews.The services they provide focus primarily on fire prevention mitigation – cutting back vegetation, creating clear defensible space around structures and providing consultations on other home hardening work. As in the Kincade fire, private crews also sometimes access mandatory evacuation zones during active wildfires to protect valuable assets while the embers are flying – a move that makes some government firefighters and local authorities uneasy.“Generally speaking, from our perspective, we have found that private fire crews are not first responders,” said Carroll Wills, communications director for California Professional Firefighters.Firefighters watch from a home in the Pacific Palisades area as a helicopter drops water on a wildfire. Photograph: Christian Monterrosa/Associated PressPrivate fire crews travel into evacuation zones in trucks equipped with water tanks and hoses and retardant, looking nearly identical to their government counterparts – though their sole task is to protect specific insured homes.Torgerson, president of Wildfire Defense Systems, noted that while his teams are capable of fighting fires, “that’s not our mission in this case”.“Our task with the insurance industry is more so to prepare the homes and secure them, prior to and after the fire, and contribute to the survivability,” he said.“Our [wildfire protection unit] teams are not private firefighters,” said Matt Gallagher, a spokesman for AIG – yet they station engines with full tanks in evacuation zones during wildfires that can turn dangerous within seconds.Lawmakers grew concerned that civilians would see these private engines and get a false sense of security about remaining in evacuation zones. Government firefighters voiced complaints about rolling onto a scene, believing the area to be fully evacuated, only to find private fire crews who had not alerted incident command.In the 2018 Woolsey fire, Kim Kardashian famously hired private firefighters to save her $50m Calabasas mansion – a crew that, said Wills, never told anyone of their plans. “That’s just incredibly dangerous,” Wills said. A helicopter drops water on a brush fire during the Woolsey Fire in Malibu, California. Photograph: Ringo HW Chiu/Associated PressPrior to the 2018 fire season, California lawmakers passed a bill requiring private crews to alert public incident command and obtain permission before entering an evacuation zone. The law codified a best-practice guideline put in place in 2008. Torgerson, who founded his company that same year, said his company has always followed these directives, and will continue to do so now that the law is in effect.“We’ve responded to more than 650 wildfires since 2008, and more than 97% of the time, we’ve been granted access to the evacuation zones to conduct these insurance missions,” he said. “We’ve coordinated with hundreds of incident command teams.”Torgerson said he does not know why his crews were not permitted 3% of the time.“We’re fully qualified under state and federal certification and training processes,” he said. “We are the same resources that the federal government hires.”But their mission is fundamentally different. Government firefighters are tasked with saving life, first and foremost, so if the fires turn and the private crews require rescue, “they are a liability”, Wills said.“We understand that when people see these massive fires, there’s a tendency to say, ‘Well, more is better’,” Wills said. “From our perspective, more really isn’t better. The more that we need is more fully trained and battle-tested, front-line firefighters and emergency responders.”

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Smugglers reportedly cutting holes in border wall

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:05:09 -0400

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Smuggling gangs in Mexico are reportedly using power tools to cut large holes in walls at the southern U.S.-Mexico border, according to a new report from the Washington Post.

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Indian capital Delhi diverts flights and restricts cars as millions endure 'eye-burning' smog

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 05:18:26 -0500

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New Delhi banned half the Indian capital's private cars from its roads on Monday as the megacity's 20 million people spluttered with stinging eyes in the worst pollution in three years. As smog levels exceeded those of Beijing by more than three times, authorities also parked a van with an air purifier near the Taj Mahal - the iconic 17th-century marble mausoleum 250 kilometres (150 miles) south of Delhi - in a bid to clean the air in its surroundings, the Press Trust of India reported. With the pollution causing a rush of respiratory complaints at hospitals and the diversion of 37 flights on Sunday, a new law came into effect restricting cars from the capital's roads to alternative days, depending on if their number plate ends in an odd or even number. More than 600 police teams were deployed at road intersections in the capital with the power to hand out fines of 4,000 rupees (£44) to transgressors Exempt from the restrictions were Delhi's seven million motorbikes and scooters, public transport and cars carrying only women, stoking criticism that the measures were ineffective. The toxic smog is visible over the old quarter of Delhi Credit: Javed Sultan/Anadolu Agency via Getty Images "There is smoke everywhere and people, including youngsters, kids, elderly are finding it difficult to breathe," Delhi's chief minister Arvind Kejriwal said in a Twitter video. "Eyes are burning. Pollution is that bad." Construction was banned temporarily late last week in the world's most polluted capital city, while schools have been closed until Wednesday, with the city government handing out free pollution masks to children. "I have a headache every day I wake up. It's suffocating to breathe sometimes. And inflammation in the nostrils and all. And eyes also. Like it kind of burns," Ankusha Kushi, a student, told AFP. As Delhiites woke up on Monday, levels of particulates measuring less than 2.5 microns - so tiny they enter deep into the respiratory tract - were at 613 micrograms per cubic metre of air, according to the US embassy in Delhi. The government will distribute pollution masks to all Delhi school students Credit:  RAJAT GUPTA/EPA-EFE/REX The World Health Organisation's recommended safe daily maximum is a reading of 25. In central Delhi, the state air quality institute rated levels of the tiny particulates - which can be deadly over the long term - as "severe". Bollywood megastar Priyanka Chopra Jonas posted a selfie in pollution mask on Instagram and said it was "hard to shoot" in Delhi. "I can't even imagine what it must be like to live here under these conditions. We r blessed with air purifiers and masks. Pray for the homeless," she posted. A man wearing a pollution mask sweeps a street with a broom in the old quarters of New Delhi  Credit: LAURENE BECQUART/AFP via Getty Images Fourteen Indian cities including the capital are among the world's top 15 most polluted cities, according to the World Health Organization. One study last year said that a million Indians died prematurely every year as a result. With a state election due in Delhi in early 2020, the crisis has also become a casualty of political bickering, with each side blaming the other. Mr Kejriwal, who likened Delhi to a "gas chamber" on Friday, said the city had done its part to curb pollution and that the burning of wheat stubble residue on farms outside the capital had to be stopped.

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‘We'll see what happens’: Trump refuses to rule out government shutdown if Democrats continue impeachment inquiry

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:29:49 -0500

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Donald Trump has refused to rule out forcing a government shutdown if Democrats do not stop their impeachment inquiry into him."We'll see what happens," the US president said when asked about the possibility of agencies being shuttered.

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Vietnam arrests eight over UK truck deaths

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 05:06:38 -0500

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Vietnam has arrested eight more people in connection with the deaths of 39 people found in a truck in Britain who are believed to be Vietnamese, police said Monday. Eight women and 31 men were found in a refrigerated lorry in an industrial park in Essex, east of London last month, in a case that has shaken Britain and exposed the deadly risks of illegal migration from Vietnam into Europe. British police initially said the victims were Chinese, but several Vietnamese families came forward to say they feared their relatives were on the truck.

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Time ticks away at wild bison genetic diversity

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:38:14 -0500

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Evidence is mounting that wild North American bison are gradually shedding their genetic diversity across many of the isolated herds overseen by the U.S. government, weakening future resilience against disease and climate events in the shadow of human encroachment. The extent of the creeping threat to herds overseen by the Department of Interior — the backbone of wild bison conservation efforts for North America — is coming into sharper focus amid advances in genetic studies. It does not include Yellowstone National Park's herd of some 5,000 unfenced bison, the largest federal conservation herd that's seen by millions of people who visit the park annually.

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Pregnant Florida Woman Kills Home Intruder with AR-15

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:58:00 -0500

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A pregnant woman is being celebrated as a hero for using an AR-15 rifle to save the lives of her husband and 11-year-old daughter after two men broke into the family's home Wednesday night.Two masked intruders broke into the Lithia, Florida home close to 9pm on Wednesday. One of the men grabbed the couple's 11-year-old daughter while both men violently attacked her father, Jeremy King. One of the men pistol-whipped him, and the other kicked him in the head several times, King said.“As soon as they had got the back door opened, they had a pistol on me and was grabbing my 11-year-old daughter,” King told Bay News 9.His wife, who is more than eight-months pregnant, peeked out of the back bedroom during the incident, at which point King said one of the intruders shot at her. She then retrieved the AR-15 and shot at the intruder, clipping him, according to King.“He made it from my back door to roughly 200 feet out in the front ditch before the AR did its thing,” King said.Authorities found the body of a man in a ditch nearby the house. King meanwhile said he has a fractured eye socket, fractured sinus cavity, a concussion, 20 stitches and three staples in his head.“Them guys came in with two normal pistols and my AR stopped it," King said, adding that his wife had "evened the playing field and kept them from killing me.”The AR-15 rifle was in the home legally, according to the Hillsborough County Sheriff’s Office.

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Myanmar ethnic rebels release Indians held in Rakhine after one dies

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 03:23:29 -0500

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Ethnic rebels in Myanmar have detained and interrogated a lawmaker and several Indian nationals, one of whom died, the rebels said on Monday, in the latest escalation of violence in the restive western state of Rakhine. Tens of thousands of people have been displaced across Rakhine since clashes began in December, bringing fresh chaos to the region, from which more than 730,000 Rohingya Muslims fled a military crackdown in 2017. Sunday's incident was the first time foreigners have been abducted in the fighting between government troops and the Arakan Army, an ethnic armed group that recruits from the mostly Buddhist local majority in its quest for greater state autonomy.

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The World's Most Powerful Navies Of 2030 Won't Look Like Those Of Today

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:00:00 -0500

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Who will hold the number 1 spot?

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Saudi Arabia officially kicked off Saudi Aramco's IPO, which could be the largest in the world

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 10:51:49 -0500

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Saudi Aramco's public listing is a major part of the kingdom's economic plans going forward. The Tadawul All Share Index fell 2.4% on the news.

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Iraq’s Top Cleric Warns Iran to Stay Out

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:29:03 -0500

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(Bloomberg Opinion) -- To understand what Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani is saying, you have to translate him twice: first from Arabic to English, then from politesse to plain-speak. In the first translation, a key passage from his Friday sermon in the holy city of Karbala went like this: “No person or group, no side with a particular view, no regional or international actor may seize the will of the Iraqi people and impose its will on them.”The second translation: “Back off, Khamenei!”That is how it would have sounded to Sistani’s audience in Karbala, where it was read out for the ailing octogenarian by an aide; in the streets of Baghdad and other Iraqi cities, where a bloody crackdown on largely peaceful protesters has taken more than 200 lives; in the Iraqi parliament, where lawmakers are negotiating a response to the demonstrations; and in Tehran, where Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei has been struggling to respond to the rising anti-Iran sentiment that undergirds uprisings in Iraq and Lebanon.Khamenei has unleashed Iran’s proxies in the streets — Hezbollah in Lebanon, and Shiite militias in Iraq — to intimidate the protesters. He has also dispatched his chief enforcer, the Iranian Revolutionary Guards Corps commander Qassem Soleimani, to the Iraqi parliament, to rally Shiite parties behind the feckless Prime Minister Adel Abdul-Mahdi.But if anything, these responses will only fan the anger in the streets against Iranian interference in Iraqi and Lebanese politics. Not even Khamenei, who is practiced in the art of ignoring popular resentment, can have failed to notice the anti-Iran slogans echoing through Iraqi cities. Nor will it have escaped his attention that the loudest chanting comes from Iraqi Shiites, a community he expects to favor his Islamic Republic.  The Supreme Leader’s anxiety was palpable in his tweets on Thursday, when he tried to blame Tehran’s usual suspects — “the U.S., the Zionist regime, some Western countries, and the money of some reactionary countries” — for the protests.Sistani’s sermon was a riposte, designed to set Khamenei right. Although born in Iran, he is no fan of Khamenei and other hardliners in Tehran, preferring the likes of President Hassan Rouhani.Iraq’s Grand Ayatollah has been in a quandary over the protests. Every Iraqi government since 2005 has had his personal imprimatur: His word has united factions among the Shiite majority. Prime Minister Abdul-Mahdi, too, has his blessing. As such, Sistani is complicit in the corruption and ineptitude that have brought the Iraqis into the streets.His early pronouncements on the protests vacillated between bromides against corruption and calls on the protesters to abjure violence. But as the demonstrations have persisted, Sistani has grown progressively more critical of the government, blaming it for the violence.His Friday sermon puts him squarely on the protesters’ side. In addition to interfering Iranians, the leaders who have long benefited from his validation came under attack. As the politicians in Baghdad struggle to devise a response that will satisfy angry Iraqis, the so-called sage of Najaf warned that Iraqis have a right to a “referendum on the constitution” to change how they are governed. By invoking the prospect of a referendum, Sistani may have given the protesters a new focus for their energies, and Iraqi politicians a way to break the toxic pattern of inconclusive elections and compromise prime ministers. Much will depend on the reaction of another cleric, Moqtada al-Sadr, who has also taken the protesters’ side — even joining them in the streets — and has called for Abdul-Mahdi’s removal.Sadr, frequently described as a firebrand, has little in common with the preternaturally placid Sistani. But the prospect of the protests being led by one and backed by the other is certain to rattle turbaned heads in Tehran. And if Sistani and Sadr were to throw their combined weight behind demands for a referendum — and who knows, maybe even inspire emulation by the Lebanese — that might be the stuff of Khamenei’s nightmares.(Corrects photograph of Grand Ayatollah al-Sistani in article published Nov. 2.)To contact the author of this story: Bobby Ghosh at aghosh73@bloomberg.netTo contact the editor responsible for this story: James Gibney at jgibney5@bloomberg.netThis column does not necessarily reflect the opinion of the editorial board or Bloomberg LP and its owners.Bobby Ghosh is a columnist and member of the Bloomberg Opinion editorial board. He writes on foreign affairs, with a special focus on the Middle East and the wider Islamic world.For more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com/opinion©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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The Most Cringe-Worthy 90s Internet Guides That We Can't Stop Watching

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:00:00 -0400

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California wildfires: Ignition of Maria fire spotted on camera

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:16:47 -0400

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The moment a wildfire burst into life and began to spread in California has been caught on camera.The Maria Fire has burned some 15 square miles and prompted evacuation orders for nearly 11,000 people since it began Thursday evening.

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Central European governments accused of abusing European agriculture subsidies

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 13:56:39 -0500

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Central European governments have been systematically abusing the European Union’s Common Agricultural Policy to enrich family members and political allies, an investigation claims.  The New York Times survey of subsidies in nine European countries found that millions of euros in agricultural subsidies had been directed to a handful of companies, often linked to national leaders. It alleged that the CAP had even underwritten “mafia-style land grabs” in Slovakia and Bulgaria.  Prominent beneficiaries reportedly include Andrej Babis, the billionaire prime minister of the Czech republic, who the paper says is linked to a company that received at least $42 million (£32 million) in subsidies last year.  Lukáš Wagenknecht, a senator from the opposition Pirate Party, last week filed a complaint against the European Council saying it should not allow Mr Babis to take part in the bloc’s budget discussions because his Agrofert conglomerate receives tens of millions of Euros in subsidies annually.  Mr Babis no longer owns the company and has denied a conflict of interests, but organisations including Transparency International claim that he remains its end beneficiary.   Andrej Babis, the Czech prime minister, denies a conflict of interest Credit: Martin Divisek/Bloomberg The paper also accused Viktor Orban, the prime minister of Hungary, of abusing the EU’s subsidies to fund a system of patronage linked to land leases.   It cited Mr Orban’s sale of 12 state farms to close associates when he was prime minister between 1998 and 2002, which became eligible for large subsidies when Hungary joined the EU in 2004.  In 2015, five years after he returned to power, Mr Orban’s government began to sell and auction leases to hundreds of thousands of hectares at cut price rates, arranging for most of them go to businessmen with close connections of Fidesz.  The paper implies that this created a system of “modern feudalism” in which small farmers were left beholden to barons who received land eligible for European subsidies based on their loyalty to Mr Orban.   Individuals who are reported to have built up considerable landholdings include Mr Orbans family and close business and political allies.  The European Union supported farmers with 58.82 billion Euros (£50.8 billion) in 2018. Subsidies are meant to support food production, rural community development, and environmentally friendly farming.  The subsidies it provides are often crucial to the survival of small farmers across the bloc.  Ivan Haralampiev, the Bulgarian farmer whose cow Penka was at the centre of an outcry over EU agricultural regulations in 2018, told the Telegraph that he had bought cattle only because the subsidies they qualified for made it possible to live.  The Telegraph sought comment from Mr Orban's office.  A spokesman for the Hungarian government said: “The procedures in Hungary for administering EU agricultural subsidies fully satisfy EU rules and regulations for the management of these funds. Hungary is also fully compliant in the sale of state land, which is regulated by law. Furthermore, it should be noted, that concerning a plot of land larger than 1,000 hectares, subsidies for or sale of that plot must follow strict rules. The NYT’s questions and sources clearly reflect a biased preconception about the topic.”

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French leader to raise 'taboo' topics in China

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:13:50 -0500

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French President Emmanuel Macron arrived in China on Monday to drum up new business deals, but under warning from his hosts to keep off thorny issues such as the pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong. Macron began his second official trip to China on Monday afternoon in the financial hub of Shanghai, where he will attend an international import fair against the backdrop of the US-China trade war.

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Salmonella linked to ground beef leaves 8 ill, 1 dead

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 11:32:08 -0400

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Ten people in six states have become infected with salmonella dublin after eating ground beef, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announced Friday.

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Indian Muslims anxious as court prepares to rule on destroyed mosque

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:41:15 -0500

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In the Indian town of Ayodhya, minority Muslims are feeling under siege as they await a Supreme Court ruling on a centuries-old religious dispute that has cast a shadow over their relations with the majority Hindu community. After a tangle of legal cases, the Supreme Court in August decided to hear arguments every day in an effort to resolve the dispute over what should be built on the ruins of the 16th-century Babri Masjid, destroyed by a Hindu mob in 1992. The uproar over the mosque triggered some of India's deadliest riots, in which nearly 2,000 people, most of them Muslim, were killed.

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Late-week storm could spell wintry weather for the mid-Atlantic

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 11:39:56 -0500

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A storm budding in the south-central U.S. earlier in the week, will take aim at the East Coast, and could deliver both heavy rain and wintry weather.An active pattern will continue to bring several storms from the center of the country to the Eastern Seaboard throughout the week. The presence of many moving parts makes for a more long-term complex pattern.One such moving part is a high pressure system that will move across the northern half of the country late in the week."The strength and location of the high pressure delivering cold to the northern tier of the country will determine how far north the storm is able to go," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Alan Reppert.No matter how far north the storm traverses, the likelihood of rain for states like Mississippi, Alabama, Tennessee and Georgia from late on Thursday through Friday is pretty high. The situation with the high pressure will instead determine the precipitation amount, and precipitation type for parts of Kentucky to the Carolinas and Virginia.Cold present in the Appalachians and to the east of the mountains when the storm arrives could allow wet snowflakes to mix in with the rainfall, especially during the morning and overnight hours."In this scenario, accumulating snow will be possible in parts of Virginia, and in the mountains of North Carolina," added Reppert.Residents will want to keep a close eye on this storm, and prepare for changeable conditions.Snow falling in the mid-Atlantic is not unprecedented for early November.Richmond's earliest accumulating snowfall, and even Raleigh earliest snowfall is during the first week of November. Snowflakes can come as early as October in these areas. The occurrence of accumulating snowfall in the higher elevations of the Appalachians is even more common.However, a snowy situation in Virginia and North Carolina at the end of the week is not set in stone.Should the high hang back farther to the west, so will the cold air. Instead of the cold being present during the arrival of the storm, it will follow the wet weather. This second scenario, combined with a more northerly storm track, would minimize the presence of snow for most across the south. Instead, there is a slight chance for some wet snowflakes to mix in with rain in places like Delaware, Maryland and northern Virginia.Additionally, the storm may move faster, most locations away from the Carolina Coast and Florida would be dried out by Friday afternoon.Cold would be able to dive farther to the south, bringing a chill for many across the region, including northern Florida, where cities experienced a record-warm October.Much of the southern and eastern Untied States has seen its fair share of storminess as of late.Cities like D.C., Raleigh, Nashville and Atlanta all recorded above-normal precipitation for the month of October. In fact D.C., and Nashville had almost double the normal amount of rain they get during the month.Download the free AccuWeather app to see the latest forecast for your region. Keep checking back for updates on AccuWeather.com and stay tuned to the AccuWeather Network on DirecTV, Frontier and Verizon Fios.

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Enemies Beware: America Is Upgrading Its Mighty Air Force Bombers

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:00:00 -0400

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The B-52, B-1, and B-2 are joining the future.

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Steve Bannon advised Kushner days before election to avoid Paul Manafort 'like the plague'

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 17:38:31 -0400

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In documents obtained by BuzzFeed, former Trump campaign head Bannon told Kushner to avoid Manafort because of optics.

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A 9,000-barrel leak in the Keystone pipeline in North Dakota spilled enough crude oil to fill half an Olympic-sized swimming pool

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 14:00:25 -0400

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The second large oil spill from the Keystone pipeline in two years provoked outrage because TC Energy told activists that spills were unlikely.

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US white supremacist arrested hours before far-right conference in Norway

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 17:58:06 -0500

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An American white supremacist was arrested hours before he was due to speak at an international far-right conference in Norway.Greg Johnson was detained under immigration law on the basis that he posed a threat to national interests, according to the police security agency PST.

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Clashes erupt on another Baghdad bridge, protester killed

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:33:15 -0500

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Anti-government protesters clashed with Iraqi security forces on a third major bridge in Baghdad on Monday, with at least one protester killed and two dozen wounded as gunfire echoed through the streets. Some protesters hurled rocks at security forces, who responded with tear gas and fired a water cannon. Police and hospital officials said at least one person was killed and 24 wounded in the clashes on the bridge, where security forces used live ammunition, rubber bullets and tear gas grenades.

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'Deepening repression' alongside Saudi reforms: HRW

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 19:45:22 -0500

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Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman has pursued landmark reforms since coming to power, but his rise has been accompanied by "deepening repression and abusive practices", Human Rights Watch said Monday. Despite a perception that the outcry over the October 2018 murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi had left the Saudis chastened, critics of the kingdom are still being vigorously pursued with measures including arbitrary travel bans and harassment of their families, it said. "Detaining citizens for peaceful criticism of the government's policies or human rights advocacy is not a new phenomenon in Saudi Arabia," the New York-based group said in a report.

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Abe, Moon Break Ice After Worst Japan-South Korea Fight in Years

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:49:32 -0500

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(Bloomberg) -- Terms of Trade is a daily newsletter that untangles a world embroiled in trade wars. Sign up here. South Korean President Moon Jae-in and Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe agreed in their first meeting in 14 months to ease tensions, according to the South Korean presidential office.Moon and Abe shared the view that the relationship between South Korea and Japan is important and re-affirmed in principle that issues between the two nations should be resolved via dialogue, the presidential office said in a text message. Abe conveyed Japan’s “basic stance” on bilateral issues in his exchange with Moon, the Tokyo-based Kyodo News agency said separately, citing the Japanese foreign ministry.The brief, 11-minute meeting at the Association of Southeast Asian Nations summit in Bangkok came as a long-simmering feud escalated into a trade-and-security dispute, leading to boycotts of Japanese imports and the decision to scrap an intelligence-sharing pact. The encounter followed a break-through meeting last month between Abe and South Korean Prime Minister Lee Nak-yon.Moon proposed high-level talks, if needed while Abe said every effort should be made to resolve the feud, Moon’s office said. Abe last met Moon in September 2018 and passed up a chance to meet him for formal talks during Group of 20 events in Osaka in June.The remarks were the most positive yet since South Korean courts issued a series of rulings last year backing the claims of Koreans forced to work for Japanese companies during the country’s 1910-45 occupation of the Korean Peninsula.Japan subsequently tightened restrictions on exports of key materials used by South Korean semi-conductor manufacturers. South Korea responded by moving to withdraw from a military intelligence-sharing pact with Japan.To contact the reporters on this story: Shinhye Kang in Seoul at skang24@bloomberg.net;Seyoon Kim in Seoul at skim7@bloomberg.net;Sophie Jackman in Tokyo at sjackman5@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Peter Pae at ppae1@bloomberg.net, Brendan ScottFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Malaysia says country shielding 1MDB fugitive Jho Low refuses to cooperate

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:51:45 -0500

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Malaysian fugitive Low Taek Jho, wanted over a multibillion dollar scandal at state fund 1MDB, is living in a country that has refused to cooperate on efforts to retrieve him, Malaysia's police chief said on Monday, according to the state news agency. Low, also known as Jho Low, has been charged in Malaysia and the United States over the alleged theft of $4.5 billion from 1Malaysia Development Berhad (1MDB), set up by former Malaysian Prime Minister Najib Razak.

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California fires, rising seas: Millions of climate refugees will dwarf Dust Bowl by 2100

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 08:23:04 -0500

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An environmental crisis in the early 1900s created 'Dust Bowl refugees.' Today's climate crisis is much bigger and will last for decades, not years.

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How Al-Baghdadi's Death Will Change the Terrorism of Tomorrow

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:30:00 -0400

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Will the war ever end?

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Chicago teen charged in suspected gang shooting that injured girl who was trick-or-treating

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 12:34:50 -0400

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A 7-year-old girl was trick-or-treating in Chicago when she was hit by a stray bullet. A teenager has now been charged.

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Biden Campaign: We ‘Don’t Have to Win in Iowa’

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:53:38 -0500

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Former vice president Joe Biden's campaign staffers have begun playing down expectations in the Iowa caucuses in response to their candidate's underperformance in recent polls conducted in the first primary state.“I think we’re the only ones who don’t have to win Iowa, honestly," Biden campaign manager Greg Schultz told the Wall Street Journal, "because our strength is the fact that we have a broad and diverse coalition.”A Siena College/New York Times poll released Friday predicted Biden will take fourth place in the Iowa caucuses. Left-wing challengers Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders come in first and second respectively, with the more moderate Pete Buttigieg taking third place.The Iowa caucuses could “have three or four or five candidates all within a couple of percentage points. Does anybody win? Technically, yes, maybe," said Schultz. "But does that give you clarity on where the heart of the Democratic Party is? I would say, ‘no.’”Biden still leads the Democratic field in national polling. His team is hoping that Biden's wide support among black voters will help propel him to the front of the race in the primaries following Iowa.The former vice president has come out against Warren's and Sanders's promise of "medicare for all" plans in trying to win over more moderate voters.“The plan put forward by Bernie and Elizabeth, even out here, is not embraced by a majority of the people,” Biden said. “And so I think what people are going to start to focus on, at least I hope, is a little bit of . . . truth in advertising.”Warren released her universal Medicare plan on Friday. The plan require $21 trillion in new government spending over ten years, while Sanders's carries a $32 trillion price tag over the same period.

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PG&E CEO Causes Outrage After Saying Struggling California Residents’ Houses Are ‘Still There’ Because of Blackouts

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:25:15 -0500

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California Gov. Gavin Newsom has been vocal in his criticism of PG&E

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Supreme leader: Iran has outflanked US since 1979 revolution

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 09:22:55 -0500

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Iran's supreme leader said Sunday that his country has outmaneuvered the United States in the four decades since the 1979 Islamic Revolution. Ayatollah Ali Khamenei said Iran has "trapped the other party in the corner of the ring in many cases," adding that U.S. aggression toward Iran has only grown "wilder and more flagrant" over the years. Khamenei was quoted on his official website in a speech to thousands of students, a day before the 40th anniversary of the U.S. Embassy takeover in Tehran.

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Brazil's Bolsonaro says 'worst is yet to come' on oil spill

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 21:59:34 -0500

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Brazilian President Jair Bolsonaro said Sunday that "the worst is yet to come" with an oil spill that has affected more than 200 beaches on the country's coast. "What came so far and what was collected is a small amount of what was spilled," Bolsonaro said in an interview with Record television. Oil slicks have been appearing for three months off the coast of northeast Brazil and fouling beaches along a 2,000 kilometer (1,250 mile) area of Brazil's most celebrated shoreline.

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Knifeman stabs four in Hong Kong as mall clashes between protesters and police end in bloodshed

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 08:14:17 -0500

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At least four people were injured by a blade-wielding man who rampaged through a mall in Hong Kong as riot police stormed shopping centres in a move to block protesters from staging rallies. The bloody attack took place amid a day of chaos in Hong Kong that also saw an elected local councillor have part of his left ear bitten off. Pro-democracy activists called a spate of flashmobs in shopping centers on Sunday in a bid to keep up the momentum of the protest movement that has swept the city with violent clashes for five months.  The actions came after a day of running battles on Saturday, and riot police stormed several malls early the day in an attempt to stop the rallies from taking place. Officers stationed at planned protest sites blocked certain areas, dispersed crowds and made arrests. Nonetheless, protesters succeeded in worming their way into malls in several neighbourhoods, forming a human chain, chanting slogans, and blocking entrances to prevent police officers from entering. Riot police arrive to a shopping mall to disperse protesters during a rally against police brutality in Hong Kong Credit: JEROME FAVRE/EPA-EFE/REX Although the protests were less violent than the previous day's, they ended in bloodshed when a man charged into a crowd that had gathered at the Cityplaza mall in the middle class neighbourhood of Tai Koo Shing.  Survivors were seen lying in pools of blood and surrounded by people holding down tissues and gauze on their wounds in an effort to staunch the bleeding. Footage circulating online showed that the attacker, thought to be wielding a knife, had been subdued by angry onlookers. He was said to have argued with others over political issues before the incident. Andrew Chiu, a pro-democracy councillor, lost part of his ear at the same mall. It was not immediately clear if the person who bit off his ear was the same person who carried out the knife attack.  Police said in a statement that they stormed into the shopping centres after activists started vandalising interiors and smashing windows. View of a blood-splattered floor after an alleged pro-Chinese supporter attacked a pro-democracy protester Credit: JEROME FAVRE/EPA-EFE/REX They said were still confirming the total number of people injured as of late Sunday evening. Police arrested at least 200 people the previous night when another set of protests disrupted the city. The weekend's clashes were the latest bout of violence in Hong Kong's worst political crisis since the former British colony was returned to China in 1997.  Protests kicked off early June against an extradition bill that would have sent suspects to face trial in mainland China, where Communist Party influence in the court system results in a 99.9 per cent conviction rate. City leaders finally withdrew the plan last month, but activists have continued to demonstrate against what they describe as police brutality and overall frustration at a government they feel has refused to listen to them. The protesters' demands have expanded to include the resignation of Carrie Lam, the city's chief executive, establishment of an independent inquiry into police handling of the demonstrations, amnesty for arrested protesters, and direct leadership elections. A woman is detained by riot police at a shopping mall in Tai Po in Hong Kong,  Credit:  KIM KYUNG-HOON/ REUTERS Ms Lam was on an official visit to mainland China on Sunday, where she is scheduled to meet this week with top Communist Party leaders.   Five months of demonstrations have dramatically disrupted day-to-day life in Hong Kong, with activists growing increasingly radical and police escalating their tactics in response.  City residents have struggled to keep up their daily routines as neighbourhoods are unexpectedly rocked by violent clashes between protesters and police.  The tense political environment has divided many in the international financial hub, with heated debates taking place everywhere from street corners to cafes. And while Ms Lam has refused to make further concessions, the clashes have grown increasingly violent. Police have deployed record amounts of tear gas, rubber bullets and sponge grenades, while a more radical faction of protesters now routinely throw petrol bombs and bricks and set fire to street barricades to deter police. Resentment at Hong Kong’s police force – once dubbed “Asia’s Finest” ­– is hardening as activists denounce what they say is disproportionate force. At least three candidates running in local elections were arrested by police over the weekend, including Richard Chan, 48, who was pepper sprayed at close range twice by officers.  Protesters have also begun targeting symbols of mainland China, including the Chinese flag, major state-owned Chinese banks, and businesses thought to be pro-Beijing, to show their frustration that freedoms long enjoyed in the former British colony were fast eroding under Beijing’s Communist rule.  On Saturday, protesters targeted the offices of Chinese state media agency Xinhua for the first time. Xinhua said in a statement that it strongly condemned the “barbaric acts of mobs” who vandalised and set fire to its lobby.

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China says no promise 'fatigue' on opening its economy

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 04:17:03 -0500

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There is no promise "fatigue" about China's efforts to open its economy to foreign businesses, the government said on Monday on the eve of week-long import fair, after the European Union said China needed to make rapid and substantial improvements. The EU, China's largest trading partner, said last week ahead of the Shanghai fair that there was a risk of "promise fatigue", urging China to show "more ambition and genuine effort towards rebalancing and a level playing field". China has long been dogged by allegations of unfair trade practices, from forced tech transfers to protectionist market entry policies.

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Venezuela Gives El Salvador’s Diplomats 48 Hours to Head Home

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 15:08:14 -0500

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(Bloomberg) -- Venezuela gave El Salvadoran diplomats just 48 hours to leave the country after a similar move by El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele.The meltdown in foreign relations came amid an ongoing power struggle between sitting Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro and National Assembly leader Juan Guaido, who has declared himself president and says Maduro’s administration is illegitimate.El Salvador is awaiting new diplomatic representation from Guaido in the near future, according to a statement from the president’s office late Saturday. Bukele also gave Venezuelan diplomats 48 hours to leave.“The government of President Nayib Bukele recognizes the legitimacy of Interim President Juan Guaido, while free elections are held in accordance with the Venezuelan constitution,” the statement read. “El Salvador will always be in favor of democracy and will defend human rights.”Bukele responded to Venezuela’s announcement with a tweet on Sunday saying that he had forgotten to mention that his government had not named a single diplomat in Venezuela and that Maduro had kicked out the team named by his predecessor. He finished the tweet with an emoji crying with laughter.Seven countries have pulled their ambassadors from Venezuela since 2018, when Maduro organized presidential elections that were criticized by many as illegitimate.\--With assistance from Fabiola Zerpa.To contact the reporter on this story: Justin Villamil in Mexico City at jvillamil18@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Carolina Wilson at cwilson166@bloomberg.net, Kevin Miller, Mark NiquetteFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.

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Trump's Naval Dream Seems Sunk: America Can't Afford a 355 Ship Navy

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 15:30:00 -0400

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Like a Christmas wish list, the Navy wants a fleet of 355 ships. It just can’t afford it.

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Teenage boy charged in Halloween shooting of seven-year-old girl in bumblebee costume

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 13:00:01 -0400

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A 15-year-old boy has been charged with attempted murder after a seven-year-old girl was shot while she was trick-or-treating in a bumblebee outfit in Chicago.The young girl, who was critically wounded while trick-or-treating for Halloween in the city’s West Side on Thursday, is believed to have been hit in the lower neck with a stray bullet.

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#DeclassifiedDog: Twitter shares their 'declassified' dog pics after Trump tweet

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 00:14:06 -0500

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Since Trump's tweet, Twitter users have taken the opportunity to share photos and videos of dogs using DeclassifiedDog and Declassified.

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Police station banned from displaying 'thin blue line' flag

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Date: Mon, 04 Nov 2019 06:08:30 -0500

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A Maryland County executive has banned a local police station from displaying the pro-law enforcement flag.

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Airbnb bans 'party houses' after California shooting kills 5

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 23:58:21 -0400

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Airbnb's CEO said the company was taking actions against unauthorized parties in the wake of a deadly shooting at a Halloween party held at an Airbnb rental home in California. In a series of tweets, Brian Chesky said Saturday the San Francisco-based company is expanding manual screening of "high risk" reservations and will remove guests who fail to comply with policies banning parties at Airbnb rental homes. Five people died after a Thursday night shooting that sent some 100 terrified partygoers running for their lives in the San Francisco suburb of Orinda.

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As Iraq and Lebanon protests flare, Iran clings to hard-earned sway

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 12:33:11 -0500

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Iran has worked to turn sweeping anti-government protests in Iraq from a threat to its hard-earned influence over its neighbour into an opportunity for political gains, analysts say. In Lebanon too, where similar rallies against corruption and government inefficiency have broken out, Iran's main ally Hezbollah has managed to maintain its influence. "Very clearly, Iran in both Lebanon and Iraq wants to protect the system and not allow it to fall apart," said Renad Mansour, researcher at London-based Chatham House.

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Hong Kong mall clash ends in bloody knife attack and bitten off ear

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Date: Sat, 02 Nov 2019 22:17:15 -0400

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Hong Kong anti-government protesters crowded a shopping mall in running clashes with police on Sunday during which a man with a knife slashed several people and apparently bit off part of a local politician's ear. A human chain in Cityplaza, in the eastern suburb of Taikoo Shing, turned into a face-to-face conflict with police, running up and down escalators where families with young children had been window shopping just minutes before and watching skating on the ice rink. Police said protesters had vandalized a restaurant in the mall after a peaceful chanting of slogans in the 22nd straight weekend of protests by Hong Kong people furious at perceived Chinese meddling in the former British colony which returned to Chinese rule in 1997.

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Apple to donate $2.5 billion to combat California housing crisis

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Date: Sun, 03 Nov 2019 23:18:50 -0500

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"Affordable housing means stability and dignity, opportunity and pride. ... Apple is committed to being part of the solution," CEO Tim Cook says

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Until the seas started to rise,"Fri, 12 Jul 2019 15:14:00 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/pbQjkbD_bFk/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/pbQjkbD_bFk, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..aa97a33 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20190918.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +US cities are losing 36 million trees a year. Here's why it matters ,"Wed, 18 Sep 2019 16:44:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/KlnsnygiAw8/index.html,"If you're looking for a reason to care about tree loss, the nation's latest heat wave might be it. Trees can lower summer daytime temperatures by as much as 10 degrees Fahrenheit, according to a recent study.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/KlnsnygiAw8, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..23ed411 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191030.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +They're recycling plastic milk bottles to build roads,"Wed, 30 Oct 2019 10:28:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/nkb1bSv3X-M/index.html,"Plastic milk bottles are being recycled to make roads in South Africa, with the hope of helping the country tackle its waste problem and improve the quality of its roads.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/nkb1bSv3X-M, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191103.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191103.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c7e4486 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191103.csv @@ -0,0 +1,2 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +There could be trouble ahead for Saudi Arabia's economy,"Sun, 03 Nov 2019 16:08:05 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/UMS9gK5Mxyg/index.html,"The stars of the business world returned last week to Saudi Arabia's so-called Davos in the Desert, a conference formally known as the Future Investment Initiative (FII). Last year, several CEOs dropped out, afraid of associating publicly with a regime that has been accused of — and has consistently denied — being responsible for the murder of journalist Jamal Khashoggi. And while it's true that their return this year indicates the extent of Saudi Arabia's rapid rehabilitation, the kingdom will need more than a glitzy attendee list of business elites to mend its economic troubles.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/UMS9gK5Mxyg, diff --git a/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv b/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv new file mode 100644 index 0000000..6c95975 --- /dev/null +++ b/news_feed/news_cash/20191104.csv @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +title,pubDate,link,description,imageLink,imageDescription +New Delhi is choking on smog and there's no end in sight,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:59:11 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/tbjRLXCRMIE/index.html,• Air pollution reaches 'unbearable' levels,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/tbjRLXCRMIE, +World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, +China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, +Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, +China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, +Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:11:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Y8goQ8aTQlU/index.html,A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Y8goQ8aTQlU, +World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, +China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, +Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, +China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, +Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:11:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Y8goQ8aTQlU/index.html,A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Y8goQ8aTQlU, +World's most profitable company to IPO,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 10:43:39 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/WdGBNzqr0Ko/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/WdGBNzqr0Ko, +China perfected fake meat centuries before the Impossible Burger,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 09:19:17 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/gb96p9WE7ow/index.html,,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/gb96p9WE7ow, +Why US military aid is so crucial to Ukraine,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 02:48:34 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/YxPYqk6S_S4/ukraine-troops-front-lines-russia-ward-pkg-vpx.cnn,"Following the now infamous phone call between President Trump and Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky, the US temporarily suspended nearly $400 million in military and security aid to Ukraine. CNN's Clarissa Ward reports from the front lines of Ukraine's war with Russia, where forces say the need for military aid is dire.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/YxPYqk6S_S4, +China approves seaweed-based Alzheimer's drug. It's the first new one in 17 years,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 07:55:31 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/egUv2keeyj8/index.html,"Authorities in China have approved a drug for the treatment of Alzheimer's disease, the first new medicine with the potential to treat the cognitive disorder in 17 years.",http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/egUv2keeyj8, +Microsoft tried a 4-day workweek in Japan. Productivity jumped 40%,"Mon, 04 Nov 2019 14:11:32 GMT",http://rss.cnn.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~3/Y8goQ8aTQlU/index.html,A growing number of smaller companies are adopting a four-day workweek. Now the results of a recent trial at Microsoft suggest it could work even for the biggest businesses.,http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/rss/edition_world/~4/Y8goQ8aTQlU, diff --git a/news_feed/rss_reader.py b/news_feed/rss_reader.py index ec70e2c..f834d58 100644 --- a/news_feed/rss_reader.py +++ b/news_feed/rss_reader.py @@ -1,3 +1,15 @@ +""" +Simple Rss reading module. Provides reading rss +by url. Cashing it into given directory. And reading +from file by date. + +You can use it like script with argparse. +Print +>> python rss_reader.py --help +into command line to find more information + +""" + import requests import os @@ -14,6 +26,9 @@ import argparse +from format_converter import PdfNewsConverter, HTMLNewsConverter + + PROJECT_VERSION = '1.0' PROJECT_DESCRIPTION = '' @@ -135,7 +150,6 @@ def _cash_news(news, dir='news_cash'): data = pd.DataFrame(columns=column_names) is_unique = data_temp.isin(data['title']).sum().sum() - print(is_unique) if not is_unique: data = data.append(data_temp) @@ -310,46 +324,67 @@ def to_json(self): return json_result -feed = NewsReader('http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=10, cashing=True) +# feed = NewsReader('http://rss.cnn.com/rss/edition_world.rss', limit=10, cashing=True) # items = feed.read_by_date('20190607') -feed.fancy_output(feed.items) - -# def main(): -# parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') -# -# parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') -# -# parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') -# parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') -# parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') -# parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') -# -# # TODO: add flags to output logs -# parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') -# parser.add_argument('--date', type=str, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') -# -# args = parser.parse_args() -# print(args) -# -# if args.version: -# print(PROJECT_VERSION) -# print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) -# -# if args.json: -# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) -# -# print(news.to_json()) -# elif args.date: -# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) -# items = news.read_by_date(args.date) -# -# news.fancy_output(items) -# else: -# news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) -# -# news.fancy_output(news.items) -# -# -# if __name__ == '__main__': -# main() +# feed.fancy_output(feed.items) + + +def main(): + parser = argparse.ArgumentParser(description='Pure Python command-line RSS reader') + + parser.add_argument('source', type=str, help='RSS URL') + + parser.add_argument('--version', help='Print version info', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--json', help='Print result as json in stdout', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--verbose', help='Output verbose status messages', action='store_true') + parser.add_argument('--cashing', help='Cash news if chosen', action='store_true') + + # TODO: add flags to output logs + parser.add_argument('--limit', type=int, help='Limit news topics if this parameter provided') + parser.add_argument('--date', type=str, help='Reads cashed news by date. And output them') + + parser.add_argument('--to-pdf', type=str, + help='Read rss by url and write it into pdf. Print file name as input') + parser.add_argument('--to-html', type=str, + help='Read rss by url and write it into html. Print file name as input') + + args = parser.parse_args() + print(args) + + if args.version: + print(PROJECT_VERSION) + print(PROJECT_DESCRIPTION) + + if args.json: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + print(news.to_json()) + elif args.date: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + items = news.read_by_date(args.date) + + news.fancy_output(items) + elif args.to_pdf: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + it = news.items + + pdf = PdfNewsConverter(it) + pdf.add_all_news() + pdf.output(args.to_pdf, 'F') + elif args.to_html: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + it = news.items + + print('WTF') + html_converter = HTMLNewsConverter(it) + print(args.to_html) + html_converter.output(args.to_html) + else: + news = NewsReader(args.source, args.limit, args.verbose) + + news.fancy_output(news.items) + + +if __name__ == '__main__': + main()