| Nancy Pelosi dismisses AOC's progressive wing of Democrats as 'like, five people' Posted: 15 Apr 2019 12:33 AM PDT  House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has dismissed the influence of congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on her party, describing the socialist wing of Democrats in the House of Representatives as "like, five people".Ms Pelosi has previously rejected the rising star's policy proposals – including the Green New Deal plan to tackle climate change and the expansion of Medicare for all Americans.In a new interview, the speaker of the House insisted there was only a very small group of left-wing Democrats who subscribed to Ms Ocasio-Cortez's ideas.Asked by 60 Minutes interviewer Lesley Stahl about "AOC and her group", Ms Pelosi replied: "That's, like, five people."When Ms Stahl suggested "the progressive group is more than five," the California Democrat was careful not to give up on the broad label she applied to a large swathe of the House caucus. "Well, the progressive ... I'm a progressive," she said.The 79-year-old, who began her second speakership in January following the Democrats' victory at the midterms, maintained that her party was not divided between radicals and moderates."By and large, whatever orientation they came to Congress with, they know that we have to hold the centre," she said. "That we have to … go down the mainstream."She also addressed the idea of improving upon President Obama's Affordable Care Act by expanding Medicare, a plan supported by Ms Ocasio-Cortez, Bernie Sanders and other left-wing Democrats."Well [the] Affordable Care Act is better than Medicare, there's no question about that. The Affordable Care Act benefits are better. Medicare doesn't have a catastrophic plan. So if you want Medicare for all, you're going to have to change Medicare and let's take a look at that."> Pleased to have had a candid discussion with @jeremycorbyn today about the direction of Brexit, Northern Ireland, NATO, acting boldly on climate, protecting human rights, and the necessity of forcefully confronting anti-Semitism & Islamophobia. pic.twitter.com/xadfAaZO8d> > — Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) > > April 14, 2019Ms Pelosi met Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday at the beginning of her trip to the UK and Republic of Ireland. She said she had a "candid" discussion with the opposition leader about Brexit and antisemitism, among other subjects.The powerful Democrat has previously made subtle criticisms about politicians who depend on social media for public support. Ms Ocasio-Cortez, incidentally, has almost four million followers on Twitter."While there are people who have a large number of Twitter followers, what's important is that we have large numbers of votes on the floor of the House," Ms Pelosi said last week.In a February interview, the speaker of the House brushed off the idea of picking up Ms Ocasio-Cortez's Green New Deal proposal."It will be one of several or maybe many suggestions that we receive," Ms Pelosi said. "The green dream, or whatever they call it – nobody knows what it is, but they're for it, right?"
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| Sanders’s Medicare for All Goes Too Far Posted: 15 Apr 2019 05:30 AM PDT  It would outlaw most forms of private health insurance and eliminate all out-of-pocket costs — something that Medicare doesn't now do. Sanders's plan wouldn't replace private health care with a government-run system like the U.K.'s National Health Service.
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| Man accused of throwing boy at Minnesota mall first sought to kill an adult: prosecutors Posted: 15 Apr 2019 12:20 PM PDT ![Man accused of throwing boy at Minnesota mall first sought to kill an adult: prosecutors]( "Man accused of throwing boy at Minnesota mall first sought to kill an adult: prosecutors") Emmanuel Aranda, who police said has a history of mental issues and arrests on relatively minor charges, went to the mall last Thursday and left without following through on his plan, the Hennepin County Attorney's office said in a statement. In a GoFundMe post that has so far raised more than $570,000 for the child's medical expenses, a friend of the family identified as Noah Hanneman of Woodbury, Minnesota, said on Sunday that the boy, whom he identified by his first name Landon, was still fighting for his life. Aranda, 24, of Minneapolis, will face attempted premeditated first-degree murder charges when he makes his first court appearance on Tuesday, Hennepin County Attorney Mike Freeman said in a statement.
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| Modi says India undermined Pakistan nuclear threat Posted: 14 Apr 2019 06:01 AM PDT  Prime Minister Narendra Modi said Sunday that India had called Pakistan's nuclear bluff in recent cross-border air strikes that almost triggered a new war between the nuclear-armed rivals. Modi and his Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) have made national security the focus of their campaign for a national election now being held. The prime minister told an election rally that an air strike inside Pakistan in February had shown that warnings hostilities could escalate into nuclear conflict were false.
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| Tell USA TODAY: Which 2020 candidate is standing out to you and why? Posted: 14 Apr 2019 04:00 AM PDT ![Tell USA TODAY: Which 2020 candidate is standing out to you and why?]( "Tell USA TODAY: Which 2020 candidate is standing out to you and why?") Join the national conversation by sending us a letter at letters@usatoday.com for a chance to get your thoughts published at USA TODAY.
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| Many Democrats and liberals are cheering Assange's arrest. That's foolish Posted: 14 Apr 2019 10:47 AM PDT  Some have argued that Assange isn't under attack for 'journalism,' but for 'activism.' That's a troubling logic to fall for 'This prosecution is about silencing dissent rather than enforcing the law.' Photograph: Victoria Jones/PAThe attempted extradition and prosecution of the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange by the United States should be an obvious outrage. It's a very clear effort by the US government to punish those who expose embarrassing secrets about its actions, and it could set a precedent that would threaten journalists everywhere. And yet many of those who should be championing Assange's cause and condemning the prosecution are doing exactly the opposite. Plenty of liberals and mainstream journalists are inexplicably cheering for Assange to be punished.There has been plenty of over-the-top gloating about Assange's arrest. In the Atlantic, Michael Weiss said Assange "got what he deserved". Some Democratic politicians have been salivating at the possibility of prosecuting him. Hillary Clinton said that Assange needs to "answer for what he has done". Charles Schumer said he hoped Assange "will soon be held to account for his meddling in our elections on behalf of Putin and the Russian government". Dianne Feinstein has been calling for Assange to be brought here and prosecuted since 2010. The West Virginia Democratic senator Joe Manchin went even further, with the truly disturbing comment that "now [Assange is] our property and we can get the facts and truth from him". Nor did Bernie Sanders speak up to defend Assange, opting for the same shameful silence he has taken on the imprisonment of whistleblower Chelsea Manning. The other 2020 candidates, with the exception of Mike Gravel and Tulsi Gabbard, have also stayed quiet.There's a lot to be disturbed by here. First, it's not clear that people like Schumer even care about the question of whether Assange broke any laws. Assange has been charged over allegedly helping Chelsea Manning to crack a Department of Defense password in 2010. The indictment has nothing to do with Putin or the 2016 election. Yet Democrats are thrilled enough to have a longtime villain in the clasps of the United States government that the actual charges, and their implications for free speech, are irrelevant.Those free speech questions are serious, and nobody inclined to celebrate Assange's arrest should wave them away. The documents WikiLeaks published, obtained by Chelsea Manning, revealed evidence of serious criminal wrongdoing by the United States armed forces. They shined a crucial light on some of our government's ugliest actions abroad. Because the US government does not like to have its secrets exposed, and needs to send a message to anyone who undermines its authority, it needs to prove that its security state has global reach and that even people outside the US will be seized.This prosecution is about silencing dissent rather than enforcing the law. The accusation against Assange is that nearly 10 years ago he tried unsuccessfully to assist in breaking a government password. How often does doing this result in a years-long federal investigation and an extradition request? Or US senators declaring a foreign national the "property" of this country? The Obama administration fished for years to find a charge that would stick to Assange, but ultimately couldn't find a way of going after him that wouldn't also criminalize ordinary acts of journalism. Donald Trump's government is less scrupulous.Some have argued that Assange isn't under attack for "journalism", but for "activism". Frida Ghitis of CNN wrote that Assange "is not a journalist and therefore not entitled to the protections that the law – and democracy – demand for legitimate journalists". This is a dangerous position. Generally, the law doesn't actually distinguish between "journalists" and "non-journalists", giving everyone the same protections. This is for good reason: if such a distinction becomes legally relevant, it means the government is empowered to decide who the True Journalists are.Those of us who work for independent media outlets – I edit a small-circulation political magazine – will always operate under the threat of being deemed "illegitimate" and having our rights taken away. Even if you think Assange is "not a journalist", the precedent his case sets has ramifications for journalists everywhere. And I do mean everywhere: remember, Assange is Australian, so don't be surprised when the US tries to seize any journalist around the world who can be alleged to have violated one of its laws.In defending Assange on this issue, some may be tempted to say "Of course I don't like the guy, but …" I'm not going to say that, because it should be obvious that one's opinion of Assange is completely irrelevant to the issue. Michael Weiss said nobody should fall for Assange's "phony pleas for sympathy, his megalomania, and his promiscuity with the facts". The Washington Post's editorial board said he is "he is long overdue for personal accountability". True or not, these are not the issue.You don't need to know what Weiss, the Post, or I think of Assange's morals. What you need to know is that anyone who doesn't stick up for him against this prosecution is both unprincipled and foolish. Unprincipled, because they don't care about protecting the liberties that are essential to exposing government crimes, and foolish because authoritarianism doesn't come all at once. It creeps slowly, normalizing itself bit by bit, until you don't realize that it's too late. First they came for Assange, and if you say nothing, they're coming for you next. * Nathan Robinson is the editor of Current Affairs
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| SpaceIL’s first lander crashed into the Moon, but they’re already planning a second try Posted: 15 Apr 2019 03:04 PM PDT  It's been a very interesting month thus far for SpaceIL, the Israeli organization which sent the Beresheet lunar lander into space and subsequently crashed it into the Moon. Needless to say, things didn't go exactly as planned, and while the mission was a huge success in a number of ways the company would love another crack at landing a spacecraft on the Moon in a much more gentle fashion.It seems they're going to do just that. In an announcement that came very shortly after the crash-landing of the Beresheet lander, SpaceIL founder Morris Kahn announced that the group would be focusing on Beresheet 2.0.Citing all the supportive messages and outreach SpaceIL and he himself personally received after the Beresheet lander met its unfortunate fate, Kahn seemed upbeat about the prospects of landing Beresheet's successor on the lunar surface. "We're going to put it on the Moon and we're going to complete the mission," Kahn said in a video posted to Twitter.https://twitter.com/TeamSpaceIL/status/1117108316554125312?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw%7Ctwcamp%5Etweetembed%7Ctwterm%5E1117108316554125312&ref_url=https%3A%2F%2Ftechcrunch.com%2F2019%2F04%2F14%2Fafter-its-first-attempt-botched-the-landing-spaceil-commits-to-second-beresheet-lunar-mission%2FKahn said the first step will be a planning committee to suss out how Beresheet 2.0 will be developed, built, and flown. He didn't offer any specifics in regards to a timeline, but the first order of business for SpaceIL will be finding someone to help fund this newly-announced adventure.The first Beresheet mission was privately financed, and it would seem likely that SpaceIL will be hunting for funding this time around as well. What made the first mission so interesting -- aside from the fact that it was borne out of a Lunar XPrize competition that never really ended -- was that it was incredibly cheap. All told, the mission only cost a couple hundred million dollars, which is a fraction of the price of many Moon landing efforts. Finding enough donors with deep pockets for a second run would also seem doable.
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| Pete Buttigieg formally enters 2020 race to take on Donald Trump pledging 'courage to reimagine our future' Posted: 14 Apr 2019 02:35 PM PDT  Pete Buttigieg has officially announced his candidacy for president of the United States, promising to bring the "courage to reimagine our future" from his job as mayor of South Bend into the White House.From a partially rebuilt autos factory in the Indiana town he has served as mayor for two terms, the 37-year-old Rhodes Scholar said its resurgence from one of America's top 10 "dying cities" into an attractive location for technology firms illustrates his qualification to take on Donald Trump in 2020."I ran for mayor in 2011 knowing nothing like Studebaker would ever come back, but that we would, our city would, if we had the courage to reimagine our future," Mr Buttigieg said, referencing the car company that once inhabited the building he stood in.The millennial mayor has mounted a surprisingly effective campaign in recent months that has taken him from being a relatively unknown figure in national politics, to one a serious contender for the Democratic presidential nomination.And, in a pool of candidates known for its historic diversity, the mayor who pronounces his name "Boot-Edge-Edge" provides his own set of intrigues: He would be America's first openly gay president, the nation's youngest, and, as a former Navy reservist, the first president to have served in any of the wars launched in the aftermath of the September 11, 2001 attacks on the World Trade Centre and Pentagon.Since announcing his exploratory committee, the political progressive has run a campaign that has received a surprising amount of media and voter attention, with more than $7m in funds raised during the first quarter of this year alone.While he has steered away from putting forward detailed policy proposals like some of his rivals in the Democratic field — he maintains that he wants to run a campaign focusing on the story first — Mr Buttigieg has nevertheless focused on several progressive policies that indicate his values as a potential president.He has said that he wants to focus politics on millennials and younger Americans, and said that those voters are particularly impacted by the coming election because younger people are going to be at "the business end" of climate change.The candidate — who has made headlines for speaking Norwegian, and playing piano with singer Ben Folds — has also made waves for his discussion of his sexuality, religion, and how those have come into conflict with that of another famous Hoosier: vice president Mike Pence."Your quarrel is not with me — your quarrel, sir, is with my creator," Mr Buttigieg said last week, addressing "the Mike Pences of the world", who is known for pursuing anti-gay legislation while governor of Indiana.Mr Buttigieg must outpace at least two very well known brands in American politics to become the Democratic nominee, with Bernie Sanders already running and Joe Biden rumoured to be planning a run.That's in addition to the more than a dozen other candidates vying for the nomination, a group that includes the likes of politicians like Kamala Harris, Beto O'Rourke, Elizabeth Warren, Cory Booker, and others.But, Mr Buttigieg's success has not been isolated to media hits and fundraising: Just this past week, two separate polls indicated that he had surged to third place in New Hampshire and in Iowa, the first two states that will vote on the nominees next year.
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| Bernie Sanders Releases Tax Returns, Showing Million-Dollar Years Posted: 15 Apr 2019 04:47 PM PDT  The returns show Sanders and his wife, Jane, earned more than $1 million in total income in 2016 and 2017. The Vermont independent, one of 18 declared candidates for the 2020 Democratic presidential nomination, reported income from his job in the Senate and more than $381,000 in income from book royalties in 2018. In 2017, when the Sanders earned nearly $1.2 million, the couple's highest-income year in the past decade, they paid an effective rate of nearly 32 percent.
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| Fifth Grader Who Died After School Fight Hit Her Head on a Shelf, Mother Says Posted: 14 Apr 2019 03:25 PM PDT  A fifth grader dies after a fight at an elementary school in South Carolina.Now her mother is speaking out.
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| American Airlines to cancel 115 flights daily over 737 MAX Posted: 14 Apr 2019 05:03 PM PDT  American Airlines announced Sunday it would scrap some 115 flights per day in the coming months because its fleet of Boeing 737 MAX planes is being grounded until August 19. America's leading airline had previously only planned to keep the planes out of commission until June 5, with Boeing facing intense scrutiny after 157 people died in an Ethiopian Airlines 737 MAX crash on March 10 -- the second deadly crash involving the aircraft in five months. The global fleet of 737 MAX planes has been barred from flying since mid-March.
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| See Photos of the 2020 Ford Mustang EcoBoost Performance Package Posted: 15 Apr 2019 02:59 AM PDT |
| Ecuador's president says Assange tried to use its embassy to spy Posted: 15 Apr 2019 07:48 AM PDT  WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange repeatedly violated his asylum conditions and tried to use the Ecuadorian embassy in London as a center for spying, Ecuador's President Lenin Moreno told Britain's Guardian newspaper. London police dragged Assange out of the embassy on Thursday after his seven-year asylum was revoked, paving the way for his extradition to the United States for one of the biggest ever leaks of classified information. Assange's relationship with his hosts collapsed after Ecuador accused him of leaking information about Moreno's personal life.
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| 8 Killed, Dozens Injured As Strong Storms Sweep Southern U.S. Posted: 15 Apr 2019 04:03 AM PDT  Three children were among the dead
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| New Zealand mosque shootings: Six in court on charges they sent attack images Posted: 15 Apr 2019 01:08 AM PDT  The charge of supplying or distributing objectionable material carries a penalty of up to 14 years imprisonment.
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| Hillary Clinton remembers Nixon investigation: 'We deserve to see the Mueller report' Posted: 14 Apr 2019 07:57 AM PDT  "I know what can be made available, what the court has to be asked to permit to be made available," said Clinton, who as a young lawyer worked on the impeachment staff of the House Judiciary Committee during the Watergate investigation.
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| Military's Grip on Power Challenged by Sudan Democracy Protests Posted: 14 Apr 2019 12:57 AM PDT ![Military's Grip on Power Challenged by Sudan Democracy Protests]( "Military's Grip on Power Challenged by Sudan Democracy Protests") The moves on Saturday followed the decision of Defense Minister Ahmed Awad Ibn Auf to stand down as the head of the council less then two days after the military's overthrow of Omar al-Bashir's 30-year rule and just hours after veteran intelligence chief Salah Gosh resigned. "The coup-makers are in disarray," said Alex de Waal, executive director of the World Peace Foundation at Tufts University in Massachusetts, and a Sudan expert.
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| US STOCKS-Wall Street drops after tepid big bank results Posted: 15 Apr 2019 09:40 AM PDT ![US STOCKS-Wall Street drops after tepid big bank results]( "US STOCKS-Wall Street drops after tepid big bank results") Wall Street's main indexes fell on Monday, following a rally in the previous session that put the S&P 500 within striking distance of its record high, as underwhelming results from Goldman Sachs and Citigroup pressured financial stocks. The sector fell for the first time in four sessions, down 0.75%, dragged lower by a 3.2% tumble in Goldman Sachs Group Inc and a 0.7% dip in Citigroup Inc after the banks missed revenue estimates.
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| Four-Year-Old with Dwarfism Denied Access to IKEA Child Care Helps Change Store Policies Posted: 15 Apr 2019 07:15 AM PDT  The mother of a four-year-old boy with dwarfism was not allowed into the play place at a Kansas IKEA, so the store is now changing its policies.
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| This Bath Tray Will Make You The Favorite Child This Mother's Day Posted: 15 Apr 2019 12:45 PM PDT |
| Trump seeks mileage for tax cuts at truck company appearance Posted: 15 Apr 2019 01:59 PM PDT  BURNSVILLE, Minn. (AP) — President Donald Trump played up the benefits of his tax cuts on Monday's tax filing day in a state where he's aiming to turn a narrow defeat in the 2016 presidential race into a victory in his re-election bid next year.
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| India bans BJP state chief minister from campaign after anti-Muslim comment Posted: 15 Apr 2019 10:18 AM PDT  India's election commission on Monday banned a Hindu state chief minister from campaigning for three days after anti-Muslim comments in an election that will end next month. The saffron-clad Yogi Adityanath, a member of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's ruling party, had been warned this month about his campaign speeches, the election commission said. The commission said Adityanath, chief minister of Uttar Pradesh, had spoken about a "green virus" in a speech last week in reference to Muslim voters who he said were being wooed by opposition parties.
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| JPMorgan, Barclays Join Itau in Slashing Brazil Growth Forecast Posted: 15 Apr 2019 12:46 PM PDT  "Although we continue to expect pension reform to be approved eventually later this year, we see growing risks of delays and further dilution," Barclays's economist Roberto Secemski wrote in a report on Monday.
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| Volkswagen to premiere 7-seat electric SUV concept car in Shanghai Posted: 15 Apr 2019 05:03 AM PDT  German car manufacturer Volkswagen is to premiere I.D. Roomzz, a fully-electric 7-seat SUV concept car, at the Shanghai Motor Show in China, which opens to the general public this Thursday, April 18, 2019. Volkswagen also announced that the battery can recharge up to 80% within only 30 minutes with the fast-charge system.
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| A Major Moment Took Place in the Crypts Beneath Winterfell. Here's the Real History Behind the Key Game of Thrones Location Posted: 15 Apr 2019 06:31 AM PDT  What the real medieval past can tell us about the resting place of the Kings in the North
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| Tornadoes kill at least three children as massive storm sweeps U.S. South Posted: 14 Apr 2019 12:59 PM PDT  A tornado touched down and spun toward Enigma, Georgia, on Sunday, after 17 twisters were reported on Saturday and Sunday across the South from Texas to Alabama. "We'll be seeing severe weather from Florida to New York, with the most unstable parts so far in Georgia," said meteorologist David Roth of the National Weather Service Weather Prediction Center. More than 100 million people from the middle of the United States to the East Coast were at risk of extreme weather, facing warnings of heavy thunderstorms and another round of tornadoes, said NWS meteorologist Bob Oravec.
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| Leak suggests the OnePlus 7 launch is less than a month away Posted: 15 Apr 2019 06:05 AM PDT  OnePlus is expected to launch three new phones by the end of the quarter, including the OnePlus 7, OnePlus 7 Pro, and OnePlus 7 Pro 5G, according to recent leaks. For the first time in its brief history, the Chinese smartphone maker will debut a series of devices in the spring, if these rumors are accurate.That's hardly surprising considering what the competition is up to, but also because we're finally getting 5G phones this year, and OnePlus wants to be one of the first companies on the market with a 5G device. While previous rumors claimed the new OnePlus 7 would arrive in May, we didn't have a precise release date. But now, an insider with a solid track record is back with an actual date.It turns out we're (supposedly) about a month away from the OnePlus 7 launch. Teenage leaker Ishan Agarwal, who has been posting scoops on Twitter about various phones in recent months, including the Pixel 3 and OnePlus's most recent phones, says the OnePlus 7 will launch on May 14th.https://twitter.com/ishanagarwal24/status/1117378077309329408Moreover, fans looking to attend the press conference will soon be able to buy their tickets, just like last year:https://twitter.com/ishanagarwal24/status/1116989679503577089The same leaker previously said the OnePlus 7 series would launch next month, providing details about the upcoming phones, including the fact that OnePlus will launch a "Pro" version -- also a first for the company.A different leak a few days ago seemed to confirm the new all-screen design for the OnePlus 7 series. The phone will feature a slide-out selfie camera, like many other Android handsets from China, as well as a triple-lens rear camera. When it comes to specs, the phone will run on the next-gen Snapdragon flagship chip, the 855, which also powers the Galaxy S10 as well as several recent 5G phones.OnePlus's 7 Pro 5G will be its first 5G handset, with UK carrier EE expected to be OnePlus's first 5G partner.
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| White House chief of staff vows that Democrats will 'never' see Donald Trump's tax returns Posted: 15 Apr 2019 05:00 AM PDT  Acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney vowed Sunday that congressional Democrats will "never" see President Donald Trump's tax returns.
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| This rice dish gets delish a with peas, feta and mint Posted: 15 Apr 2019 08:56 AM PDT  Brown rice can be difficult to cook well: All too often, it is underseasoned and turns starchy and mushy. Plus, it takes a long time to cook, so stovetop recipes run the risk of scorching on the bottom.
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| Rockets kill 11 in Syria's Aleppo: state media Posted: 14 Apr 2019 11:33 AM PDT  Rockets fired by jihadists on Sunday killed at least 11 people in the Syrian city of Aleppo held by President Bashar al-Assad's regime, state news agency SANA reported. Aleppo sits in the north of the country next to Idlib, a province dominated by Syria's former Al-Qaeda affiliate, Hayat Tahrir al-Sham (HTS). Since the regime regained control of Aleppo at the end of 2016, the city has been targeted intermittently by jihadists and rebel fighters.
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| SNL Brutally Mocks ‘Princess of Arizona’ Meghan McCain Posted: 13 Apr 2019 09:33 PM PDT  NBCJust in time for the release of the new tell-all book Ladies Who Punch, Saturday Night Live went in on The View hard this week. "You're watching The View," an announcer said at the top of the sketch. "Let's get ready to rumble!" Introducing herself as Whoopi Goldberg, Leslie Jones began by saying, "I'm as surprised as you that this show is a fit for me." She went on to introduce the day's "hot topic" as President Trump's firing of Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Nielsen and asked Cecily Strong's Abby Huntsman for her thoughts. "You want to start with me?" a surprised Huntsman asked before struggling to balance her "human mother" and "conservative daughter" sides. "Did I talk too long, Whoopi?" she asked when she was done.But the sketch saved the most scathing portrayal for Aidy Bryant's Meghan McCain, who, as in real life, immediately started a shouting match with Kate McKinnon's Joy Behar, forcing Goldberg to intervene by squirting a water bottle at them. "Can I just say something as the princess of Arizona?" McCain asked. "There is a crisis at the border, and the border is right up in my Arizona, which was founded on sunburnt women selling turquoise jewelry, not rando Mexicans. And that's not racist because my makeup artist is gay." As Behar tried to weigh in, McCain shot back, "Can you let me talk because it's actually your job to listen to me!" "OK, stop it. We're not going to do this," Goldberg said. "This is The View. We're five best friends with nothing in common." Later, they welcomed host Emma Stone as "vixen of anti-vax" and former View co-host Jenny McCarthy. "My doctor is Google," she said. "My science is Twitter, and my religion is Donnie Wahlberg." "What the left fails to understand is that vaccinations are a personal liberty issue," McCain chimed in, launching another fight. "Can I punch you in the face?" Behar asked, removing her earrings as Goldberg spritzed her in the face once more. It was just barely crazier than the real thing. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| 2020 Kia Soul Is Practical and Personality Rich Posted: 14 Apr 2019 03:00 AM PDT  Kia struck a rare chord with the original Soul, creating an affordable small car that exudes personality. The latest, a third-generation model, carries forward the distinct boxy silhouette and gi...
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| The Corruption of the Terrorist Group List Posted: 15 Apr 2019 08:39 AM PDT  The ineffectiveness of the Trump administration's latest move in its anti-Iran campaign—its designation of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps (IRGC) as a Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO)—are readily apparent and have been ably analyzed by other commentators. The designation does not put any additional economic pressure on an already heavily sanctioned Iran and, among other drawbacks, only makes it harder for Iranian critics of the IRGC to speak up lest they be seen as stooges of the United States.The Trump administration is running out of ways to demonstrate its unremitting hostility toward Iran. As it strives to contrive new ways, it compromises and undermines other U.S. interests and objectives. The latest move undermines the objective of counterterrorism by placing, for the first time ever, a governmental entity on a list that never was designed for that purpose.
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| Man accused in fatal shooting of mother's boyfriend in northwest Houston Posted: 14 Apr 2019 10:22 AM PDT  According to the victim's son, the pregnant girlfriend was upset the victim was seeing another woman.
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| See Every Car, Wagon, and SUV in Volvo's 2019 Model Lineup Posted: 15 Apr 2019 09:54 AM PDT |
| Trump says Boeing should fix, 'rebrand' grounded 737 MAX jet Posted: 15 Apr 2019 04:37 AM PDT  The FAA has been meeting with representatives from major airlines over the next steps after more than 300 Boeing 737 MAXs were grounded worldwide.
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| China Considers U.S. Request to Shift Tariffs on Farm Goods Posted: 15 Apr 2019 03:30 AM PDT  The step would involve China moving retaliatory duties it imposed starting last July on $50 billion worth of U.S. goods to non-agricultural imports, said the people, who asked not to be identified because the discussions were private. The shift is because the U.S. doesn't intend to lift its own duties on $50 billion of Chinese imports even if an agreement to resolve the trade war between the two nations is reached, one the people said. Another person said China would consider shifting the tariffs to make it easier to meet a proposal to buy an additional $30 billion a year more of U.S. agricultural goods on top of pre-trade war levels as part of a final deal.
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| As Trump battles California, Gov. Newsom makes big changes in first 100 days Posted: 14 Apr 2019 06:25 AM PDT  From halting death row executions to derailing a high-speed train, Newsom is continuing a brash leadership style he espoused as San Francisco mayor.
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