av 'Chaotic disaster': Obama hits Trump's coronavirus response, warns of disinformation ahead of election By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:33:47 GMT The former president was also critical of the Justice Department directing prosecutors to drop their case against Michael Flynn, warning that the “rule of law is at risk.” Full Article
av 'We are so lucky to have had him': Michelle Obama, others honor Little Richard By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:55:24 GMT "With his exuberance, his creativity, and his refusal to be anything other than himself, Little Richard laid the foundation for generations of artists to follow," Michelle Obama tweeted. Full Article
av The right to worship: Church and state clash over religious services in the coronavirus era By www.nbcnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 19:07:00 GMT Just this week, the Justice Department got behind a rural Virginia church's claim that the state improperly discriminated against it by limiting its gatherings. Full Article
av Warm weather won't kill off coronavirus, study finds By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 17:02:19 GMT Summer may not provide the kind of relief from the coronavirus that many hoped it would. Full Article c1c01845-9d93-5e42-9f56-b6ef3ad4845c fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/science fox-news/health fnc fnc/science article Fox News Peter Aitken
av Iceland uses coronavirus stimulus money to fight climate change By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:22:04 GMT Last week, the Icelandic government rolled out several new environmental policies and proposals addressing climate change as part of the country's second COVID-19 economic stimulus package. Full Article 6c7676f9-61c3-5a55-b235-37aed2cac81c fox-news/science fox-news/science/natural-science fox-news/us/environment fox-news/us/environment/climate-change fox-news/world/environment/climate-change fox-news/science/planet-earth/climate fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/us/economy fox-news/politics/finance fox-news/us/energy fox-news/science/planet-earth/energy fox-news/world/united-nations fox-news/world/environment/forests fnc fnc/science article Fox News Julia Musto
av Obama says coronavirus response has been a ‘chaotic disaster,' blames ‘selfish’ mindset By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:56:19 GMT Former President Barack Obama on Friday said that the Trump administration’s response to the coronavirus pandemic has been an “absolute chaotic disaster” and blamed it on a “selfish” and “tribal” mindset that has become operationalized in government. Full Article c2250188-c3bd-5972-8c83-dbd2c87d56f1 fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/person/barack-obama fox-news/person/joe-biden fox-news/person/donald-trump fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Adam Shaw
av Dr. Fauci plans to attend Senate hearing Tuesday amid 'modified' coronavirus quarantine By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:41:01 GMT Dr. Anthony Fauci will testify at the Senate Health Committee Tuesday, Fox News has learned, while two other White House coronavirus task force members will attend the hearing via video conference after placing themselves in quarantine. Full Article 7d227cb0-6757-5932-b1d6-9db34e7de9a4 fox-news/person/anthony-fauci fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/executive/white-house fox-news/person/donald-trump fox-news/person/mike-pence fox-news/us/congress fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Melissa Leon Chad Pergram
av South Dakota Gov. Noem clashes with Sioux tribes over coronavirus checkpoints By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:11:45 GMT South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has warned two tribal leaders she will take “necessary” legal action if the tribes don’t remove coronavirus checkpoints on their reservations. Full Article 467ba0be-d237-50b9-93f6-8aa2ab0f323d fox-news/person/kristi-noem fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/south-dakota fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local/governors fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/us/personal-freedoms fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Brie Stimson
av Obama White House may have seen 'opportunity to disrupt' Flynn, ex-FBI official says By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 02:22:00 GMT It would be "abominable" if the Obama White House was behind the FBI's controversial interview of former national security adviser Michael Flynn, a former assistant director of intelligence for the bureau said Friday night. Full Article 96b4f08d-9e3c-50bc-b7fd-4484dafb61a3 fox-news/shows/ingraham-angle fox-news/media/fox-news-flash fox-news/media fox-news/tech/topics/fbi fox-news/person/barack-obama fox-news/news-events/russia-investigation fox-news/person/donald-trump fox-news/politics/executive/national-security fnc fnc/media article Fox News Victor Garcia
av South Dakota Gov. Noem clashes with Sioux tribes over coronavirus checkpoints By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:11:45 GMT South Dakota Gov. Kristi Noem has warned two tribal leaders she will take “necessary” legal action if the tribes don’t remove coronavirus checkpoints on their reservations. Full Article 467ba0be-d237-50b9-93f6-8aa2ab0f323d fox-news/person/kristi-noem fox-news/us/us-regions/midwest/south-dakota fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local/governors fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/us/personal-freedoms fnc fnc/politics article Fox News Brie Stimson
av Mike Rowe says many Americans workers feel labeled 'nonessential' by coronavirus lockdowns By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 06:51:51 GMT The U.S. response to the coronavirus outbreak has led to "unintended consequences" -- including lost pride for many American workers, TV host Mike Rowe said Saturday night. Full Article d7a9bbc8-3739-5fa0-a1bc-5877509f226d fox-news/shows/watters-world fox-news/topic/fox-news-flash fox-news/media fnc fnc/media article Fox News Victor Garcia
av Global coronavirus infections top 4 million, US death toll passes 78,000 By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 08:21:43 GMT State leaders across the U.S. moved to expand testing for the new coronavirus, while lifting some restrictions on travel and business that have crippled the nation’s economy. Full Article c9ccc993-3d1a-51e6-a9df-f63f958b00e4 fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/us/us-regions/northeast/new-york fox-news/us/us-regions/northeast/delaware fox-news/us/us-regions/northeast/connecticut fox-news/person/andrew-cuomo fox-news/politics/state-and-local/governors fox-news/newsedge/business fox-news/us/economy fnc fnc/health article The Wall Street Journal Ben Chapman Frances Yoon Nick Kostov
av NHL possibly holding early draft leaves mixed feelings around hockey world By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:21:53 GMT The NFL's successful virtual draft and uncertainty surrounding the resumption of hockey this season have raised the possibility of an NHL draft held before the Stanley Cup Final. Full Article 13b3ed9f-0f46-533f-b52a-1f45ea413b32 fox-news/sports/nhl fnc fnc/sports article Associated Press
av Cavs' Kevin Love opens up about returning to training facility for the first time since coronavirus: report By feeds.foxnews.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:09:47 GMT Cleveland Cavaliers’ Kevin Love was one of the few players to enter a training facility Friday as the NBA slowly begins its path back to normalcy but the five-time All-Star described his first day back on the court in almost two months as any but normal. Full Article 53b9b527-b49e-56b1-94b4-df048336b902 fox-news/sports/nba/cleveland-cavaliers fox-news/sports/nba fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fnc fnc/sports article Fox News Paulina Dedaj
av California Democrat reacts to Tesla lawsuit, pullout plan over coronavirus rules: ‘F--- Elon Musk’ By www.foxnews.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 04:35:17 GMT A California Democrat seemed less than upset Saturday night at the news that entrepreneur Elon Musk planned to pull much of his company Tesla – along with an unspecified number of jobs -- out of the state over coronavirus shutdown rules that have stalled the automaker's operations. Full Article 2ede860a-ff97-568d-ab27-452ebab73d33 fox-news/auto/make/tesla fox-news/person/elon-musk fox-news/us/us-regions/west/california fox-news/health/infectious-disease/coronavirus fox-news/politics/state-and-local fox-news/auto fox-news/us/economy/jobs fox-news/us/economy fox-news/newsedge/business fnc fnc/tech article Fox News Dom Calicchio
av Coronavirus: हॉटस्पॉट में नहीं थमा संक्रमण, छह और पॉजीटिव, साइंलेंट करियर फैला रहे संक्रमण By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:59:12 +0530 कानपुर के हॉट स्पॉट में कोरोना संक्रमण की चेन नहीं टूट रही है। साइलेंट करियर के संपर्क में आने से लोगों को कोरोना संक्रमण मिल रहा है। शनिवार को छह और रोगी कोरोना की चपेट में आ गए हैं। Full Article
av Coronavirus in up: बांदा में कोरोना के दो नए मामले सामने आए, संक्रमितों की संख्या 23 हुई By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:29:19 +0530 कोरोना संक्रमितों की संख्या तेजी से बढ़ती ही जा रही है। रविवार को पांच नमूनों की रिपोर्ट आई। जिसमें कोरोना के दो नए पॉजिटिव मामले सामने आए हैं। Full Article
av Coronavirus in up: उन्नाव में कोरोना का एक और मरीज मिला, मुंबई से आया था युवक, संक्रमितों की संख्या पांच हुई By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 10:59:33 +0530 कोरोना वायरस देश भर में तेजी से पांव पसार रहा है। कोरोना मरीजों की संख्या लगातार बढ़ती ही जा रही है। यूपी के उन्नाव जिले में कोरोना का एक और मरीज मिला है। युवक नवाबगंज ब्लॉक के मिर्जापुर गांव का रहने वाला है। Full Article
av Coronavirus in UP: अहमदाबाद से आया इंजीनियर कोरोना पॉजिटिव निकला, फर्रुखाबाद में संक्रमितों की संख्या दो हुई By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 12:07:34 +0530 फर्रुखाबाद जिले में एक और कोरोना पॉजिटिव केस सामने आया है। फतेहगढ़ के मोहल्ला भोलेपुर बेवर रोड बगिया निवासी इंजीनियर अहमदाबाद में टेक्सटाइल कंपनी में काम करते थे। वहां से वह चार मई को वापस आए थे। Full Article
av All the Live Events, Movie Releases, and Productions Affected by the Coronavirus By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:15:00 -0400 A long list of broken dreams. Full Article coronavirus music tv movies gaming cancellations coronavirus news
av The Eddy Recap: Leaving on a Jet Plane? By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 16:00:30 -0400 Elliot might be there, but he’s not there for Maja, at least not in the ways she needs him to be. Full Article tv tv recaps overnights recaps the eddy
av Darrell Issa Appears to Flee to Building Roof to Avoid Protesters By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Tue, 30 May 2017 19:26:46 +0000 Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.) was seen taking refuge on the roof of his office building in Vista, California, Tuesday, taking photos of angry constituents who had gathered below to protest the congressman's voting record. The incident comes before a much-anticipated town hall meeting this Saturday at San Juan Hills High School, where the nine-term congressman is expected to face a hostile crowd because of his support for various Trump administration policies, including the Republican plan to repeal and replace Obamacare. Democrat Mike Levin, an environmental lawyer who recently announced his bid to challenge Issa in 2018, shared an image of the congressman appearing to avoid demonstrators on social media, where it was roundly mocked. Yes, this is really @DarrellIssa on the roof of his district office building. Too afraid to come speak with assembled constituents below. pic.twitter.com/wCYRjO8Ev8 — Mike Levin (@MikeLevinCA) May 30, 2017 Others saw his retreating to a rooftop as reminiscent of Michael Scott, Steve Carrell's character in The Office who memorably took to the roof in the episode titled "Safety Training." Sean Spicer: I hid in the bushes to avoid people! No one can top that! Darrell Issa: Hold my beer. https://t.co/txY2wpKBKI — Lily Herman (@lkherman) May 30, 2017 @MikeLevinCA @DarrellIssa You have to treat him like Michael Scott and tell him you have a present for him if he comes down. pic.twitter.com/SBkznuHDZ1 — JeremiahOrtega (@jortega8) May 30, 2017 Issa, on the other hand, described his trip to the roof a bit differently. Shortly after the criticism, he took to Twitter to offer this narrative. We recommend zooming in to take a closer look at the signs: Spent the morning talking with constituents gathered outside the office today, then popped upstairs to take a quick pic! pic.twitter.com/K2CFdenOIj — Darrell Issa (@DarrellIssa) May 30, 2017 For more on Levin and the fight to defeat Issa, the richest man in Congress, head to our profile here. Full Article Politics Congress Donald Trump
av Democrats Are Setting Their Sights on "Putin's Favorite Congressman" By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Sat, 03 Jun 2017 10:00:08 +0000 Rep. Dana Rohrabacher (R-Calif.) won his first election to the House of Representatives in 1988 with 64 percent of the vote. He's been reelected 13 times since then. And even though he walloped his most recent challenger by nearly 17 percentage points, some Democrats now think that this could be the final term for the Southern California conservative Politico has dubbed "Putin's favorite congressman." Protesters, sometimes numbering in the hundreds, assemble outside Rohrabacher's office every Tuesday at 1 p.m. "He has been our congressman for a long time," laments Diana Carey, vice chair of the Democratic Party of Orange County. "But because the district was predominantly Republican, my view is he's been on cruise control." Thanks to changing demographics in Orange County and newly fired-up liberal voters, Carey doesn't think Rohrabacher's seat is safe anymore. Recently, Rohrabacher has been swept up in the scandal over the possible collusion between President Donald Trump's campaign and Russia. Like Trump, Rohrabacher, who claims to once have lost a drunken arm-wrestling match with Vladimir Putin in the 1990s, believes the Russian government is being unfairly demonized. (During the 1980s, Rohrabacher was a staunch anti-communist who hung out with the anti-Soviet mujahedeen in Afghanistan.) He has shrugged off allegations of Moscow's meddling in the 2016 presidential election by pointing out that the United States is guilty of similar actions. In May, the New York Times reported that in 2012 the FBI warned Rohrabacher that Russian spies were trying to recruit him. Two days earlier, the Washington Post reported on a recording from June 2016 in which House Majority Leader Kevin McCarthy said, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." (McCarthy assured Rohrabacher the remarks were meant as a joke.) In a 2016 conversation with Republican House members, Rep. Kevin McCarthy (R-Calif.) said, "There's two people I think Putin pays: Rohrabacher and Trump." Washington Post But of all the issues where Rohrabacher and Trump align, Russia may be the least pressing concern for the constituents who are rallying against him. So far, Rohrabacher has voted in line with Trump's positions more than 93 percent of the time, according to FiveThirtyEight, including voting in favor of the GOP health care bill that would effectively end Obamacare. Rohrabacher pushed hard for the bill, warning his GOP colleagues that letting Trump's first major legislative effort die would stunt the president's momentum. "If this goes down," he said in March, "we're going to be neutering our President Trump. You don't cut the balls off your bull and expect that's he's going to go out and get the job done." Health care is a hot-button issue in the 48th District, Carey says. "I've had conversations with people who are absolutely beside themselves, scared that they're going to lose coverage." While Rohrabacher won his last race in a near-landslide, his district went for Hillary Clinton in the presidential election. She won by a slim margin, but it was enough for the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee (DCCC) to flag the district as a top target to flip in 2018. If the Democrats hope to best Rohrabacher in the midterms, they have a lot of work to do, says Justin Wallin, an Orange County-based pollster who runs an opinion research firm. "I don't think Dana has carved out a position as a fire-breathing supporter for any political personality except for Ronald Reagan," says Wallin, referring to Rohrabacher's early days working in the Reagan White House. "He tends to align quite naturally with that district in his perspectives, his persona, and his political views. His district views him as being independent, and when Dana takes a position on something that seems to be outside the mainstream, that can actually buttress his favorable regard." Two Democrats have announced bids to run against Rohrabacher. One is first-time candidate Harley Rouda, a businessman and attorney who gave $9,200 to Republican congressional candidates and nothing to Democrats between 1993 and 2007. The other is Boyd Roberts, a Laguna Beach real estate broker who has vowed to work to impeach Trump and who finished last among five candidates running for a school board seat in Hemet, California, in 2012. Both are attacking Rohrabacher over his sympathetic stance toward Russia. "The district will vote [Rohrabacher] out because i think there is something with the Russia thing. I think I can raise money off it," Roberts told the Los Angeles Times. In an online ad, Rouda calls Rohrabacher "one of the most entrenched members of Washington's establishment" and vows to get "tough on Russia" if he is elected. "They're both kind of waving the flag of the Russia thing, and I just don't think that's gonna get them over the line," says Wallin. Carey declined to comment on either candidate, though she says a third challenger will be announcing a bid this summer. Meanwhile, the DCCC hasn't thrown its backing behind anyone yet. "Barring something dramatic happening, I'd say he is far more safe than a number of other districts in the area," says Wallin. Yet Carey thinks that so long as the Democrats continue organizing with the same intensity they've shown so far, they can turn the district blue. "We have a lot of folks who said they never paid attention before, a lot of no-party-preference people who are really concerned about democracy," she says. When asked whether people in the district continue to be engaged, she responds, "So far I think the energy is staying. I tell people, 'This is not a sprint, it's a marathon.' But I think as long as Trump keeps tweeting, we'll keep having interest!" Full Article Politics Congress Donald Trump
av In 3 Months, 3 Immigrants Have Died at a Private Detention Center in California By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Fri, 02 Jun 2017 22:32:25 +0000 A Honduran immigrant held at a troubled detention center in California's high desert died Wednesday night while in the custody of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Vincente Caceres-Maradiaga, 46, was receiving treatment for multiple medical conditions while waiting for an immigration court to decide whether to deport him, according an ICE statement. He collapsed as he was playing soccer at the detention facility and died while en route to a local hospital. Caceres-Maradiaga's death is the latest in a string of fatalities among detainees held at the Adelanto Detention Facility, which is operated by the GEO Group, the country's largest private prison company. Three people held at the facility have died in the last three months, including Osmar Epifanio Gonzalez-Gadba, a 32-year-old Nicaraguan found hanging in his cell on March 22, and Sergio Alonso Lopez, a Mexican man who died of internal bleeding on April 13 after spending more than two months in custody. Since it opened in 2011, Adelanto has faced accusations of insufficient medical care and poor conditions. In July 2015, 29 members of Congress sent a letter to ICE and federal inspectors requesting an investigation into health and safety concerns at the facility. They cited the 2012 death of Fernando Dominguez at the facility, saying it was the result of "egregious errors" by the center's medical staff, who did not give him proper medical examinations or allow him to receive timely off-site treatment. In November 2015, 400 detainees began a hunger strike, demanding better medical and dental care along with other reforms. Yet last year, the city of Adelanto, acting as a middleman between ICE and GEO, made a deal to extend the company's contract until 2021. The federal government guarantees GEO that a minimum of 975 immigrants will be held at the facility and pays $111 per detainee per day, according to California state Sen. Ricardo Lara (D-Bell Gardens), who has fought to curtail private immigration detention. After that point, ICE only has to pay $50 per detainee per day—an incentive to fill more beds. Of California's four privately run immigration detention centers, three use local governments as intermediaries between ICE and private prison companies. On Tuesday, the California senate voted 26-13 to ban such contracts, supporting a bill that could potentially close Adelanto when its contract runs out in 2021. The Dignity Not Detention Act, authored by Lara, would prevent local governments from signing or extending contracts with private prison companies to detain immigrants starting in 2019. The bill would also require all in-state facilities that hold ICE detainees, including both private detention centers and public jails, to meet national standards for detention conditions—empowering state prosecutors to hold detention center operators accountable for poor conditions inside their facilities. An identical bill passed last year but was vetoed by Gov. Jerry Brown. "I have been troubled by recent reports detailing unsatisfactory conditions and limited access to counsel in private immigration detention facilities," Brown wrote in his veto message last September. But he deferred to the Department of Homeland Security, which was then reviewing its use of for-profit immigration detention. In that review, the Homeland Security Advisory Council rejected the ongoing use of private prison companies to detain immigrants, citing the "inferiority of the private prison model." Yet since President Donald Trump took office, the federal government has moved to expand private immigration detention, signing a $110 million deal with GEO in April to build the first new immigration detention center under Trump. Nine people have died in ICE custody in fiscal year 2017, which began October 1. Meanwhile, private prison stocks have nearly doubled in value since Election Day. Full Article Politics Immigration Prisons
av How Trump and His Allies Have Run With Russian Propaganda By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 10:30:06 +0000 The concept is straight from the Soviet playbook: Plant false information and use it to influence the attitudes of another country’s people and government. This “active measures” technique from the Cold War era appears to have been resurrected with alarming success by the Kremlin in its attack on the 2016 presidential election—and has been echoed in tactics used by President Donald Trump and his associates, according to Clint Watts, a senior fellow at the Foreign Policy Research Institute. “Part of the reason active measures have worked in this US election is because the commander in chief has used Russian active measures at times against his opponents,” Watts, a former FBI agent, recently testified to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Key to this equation have been RT and Sputnik international, two Russian state-sponsored news outlets. Both reach only relatively small audiences in the US (RT is estimated to reach about 8 million people via cable television), but their impact has been magnified greatly online, with their stories reposted on what Watts calls “gray” conspiracy sites like Breitbart News and InfoWars. Twitter bots and other social media accounts further amplify the stories. And in several cases, Trump or his associates have directly cited phony Russian propaganda in a speech or interview. Here are some examples: A false report of a terrorist attack at a NATO base in Turkey: Last July, RT and Sputnik each reported on a fire at the Incirlik base, framing it as potential sabotage. Pro-Russian and pro-Trump Twitter accounts spread and magnified the false reports, but mainstream news organizations didn’t pick up the report because it wasn’t true, as Watts explained in a piece for the Daily Beast. Yet, in mid August, Paul Manafort—Trump’s campaign chairman at the time—escalated the story to a terrorist attack, complaining on CNN that US media outlets were not adequately covering it. Politifact debunked Manafort’s claims, noting that Turkish authorities had reported small, peaceful demonstrations outside the base, but no actual assault on the base. The case of the phony Benghazi email: On October 10, Wikileaks released a batch of emails hacked from campaign chairman John Podesta’s email account. About 5 pm ET that day, Sputnik News published a story about leaked Clinton campaign emails with the headline “Hillary confidante: Benghazi was ‘preventable’; State Department negligent.” Roughly an hour later, Trump told supporters at a rally in Pennsylvania that Clinton ally Sidney Blumenthal had called the Benghazi attack “almost certainly preventable.” “This just came out a little while ago,” Trump said. Those words weren’t actually Blumenthal’s and Sputnik later deleted the story – but by then the headline had spread far and wide. False claims of pervasive voter fraud: RT has been attempting to delegitimize the American electoral process since 2012 by calling the U.S. voting system fraudulent, according to the declassified version of the report the Director of National Intelligence released this past January. In his Senate testimony, Watts called this the “number one theme" pushed by Russian outlets. In October 2016, a Kremlin-controlled think tank circulated a strategy document that said Russia should end its pro-Trump propaganda “and instead intensify its messaging about voter fraud to undermine the U.S. electoral system’s legitimacy and damage Clinton’s reputation in an effort to undermine her presidency,” according to a Reuters investigation. That same month, Trump pushed hard on the theme that the election was rigged; on Oct. 17 Trump tweeted “Of course there is large scale voter fraud happening on and before election day.” The sources his campaign pointed to were all debunked by Politifact, which noted that Trump had also tweeted in 2012 about dead voters delivering Obama’s win. The Swedish attack that wasn’t: Trump’s strategy of running with false information didn’t stop when he won the election – and hasn’t been limited to Russian-owned media properties: He’s also used Fox News reports in a similar way. In February, Trump appeared to imply at a Florida rally that a terrorist attack had occurred the previous night in Sweden. Sweden itself had no idea what he meant and the Swedish Embassy reached out to ask for clarification. Twitter users, including many Swedes, ridiculed Trump’s statement, with references ranging from IKEA to the Swedish Chef character from the “Muppets.” Trump later said that he was referring to a Fox News story on violence allegedly perpetrated by refugees. That report, which aired the night before Trump’s rally, did not mention a specific terror-related attack; it focused on reports that rape and gun violence had increased since Sweden began taking in a record number of refugees in 2015. Wiretapping claims pushed by a Fox News personality: In March, even though Trump's claim about Obama wiretapping Trump Tower had been directly debunked by top US intelligence officials, the president seized on a baseless claim by Fox News analyst Andrew Napolitano that British spies had wiretapped Trump at former President Obama’s request. Fox News later disavowed Napolitano’s statement. Trump continued to repeat his conviction that he’d been wiretapped, even though American and British intelligence officials insist there is no basis for the claims. The murder of DNC staffer Seth Rich: Trump allies recently pushed another story that started as a conspiracy theory online and was fueled by Russian news outlets. Fox’s Sean Hannity aired several segments focusing on the unsubstantiated claim that Rich was behind the Clinton campaign email leaks and then murdered for his actions, even though police have said he was likely killed in a robbery attempt. When the claims were thoroughly debunked, Fox retracted the story from its website – but not before it had been spread by Trump ally and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Even after Fox pulled the story, Gingrich told the Washington Post, “I think it is worth looking at.” In his Senate testimony, Watts noted that Trump is vulnerable to further manipulation by the Russians: He warned that Russian-linked Twitter accounts are actively trying to engage the president by sending him conspiracy theories. “Until we get a firm basis on fact and fiction in our own country, get some agreement about the facts,” Watts said, “we’re going to have a big problem.” Full Article Politics 2016 Elections Donald Trump Foreign Policy International Russia Top Stories
av Trump's Tweets Threaten His Travel Ban's Chances in Court By www.motherjones.com Published On :: Mon, 05 Jun 2017 18:01:19 +0000 President Donald Trump began the week with a barrage of early-morning tweets blasting the courts for blocking his travel ban executive order. But in doing so, he may have just made it more likely that the courts will keep blocking the ban. People, the lawyers and the courts can call it whatever they want, but I am calling it what we need and what it is, a TRAVEL BAN! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should have stayed with the original Travel Ban, not the watered down, politically correct version they submitted to S.C. — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 The Justice Dept. should ask for an expedited hearing of the watered down Travel Ban before the Supreme Court - & seek much tougher version! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 In any event we are EXTREME VETTING people coming into the U.S. in order to help keep our country safe. The courts are slow and political! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 5, 2017 These tweets followed upon several from over the weekend about the ban and the terrorist attack in London, including this one from Saturday evening: We need to be smart, vigilant and tough. We need the courts to give us back our rights. We need the Travel Ban as an extra level of safety! — Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 3, 2017 In January, Trump signed an executive order banning nationals from seven Muslim-majority countries from entering the United States for 90 days, as well as halting the refugee resettlement program for 120 days (and indefinitely for Syrian refugees). When the courts blocked it, rather than appeal to the Supreme Court, Trump signed a modified version of the order. The new ban repealed the old one, reduced the number of banned countries from seven to six, and added exceptions and waivers. Still, federal courts in Maryland and Hawaii blocked it, and now the Justice Department has appealed to the Supreme Court to have this second version of the ban reinstated. The biggest question in the litigation over the ban is whether the courts should focus solely on the text of the order or also consider Trump's comments from the campaign trail, and even during his presidency, to determine whether the order uses national security as a pretext for banning Muslims from the country. The president's lawyers argue that the courts should focus on the text of the order and defer to the president's authority over national security. Trump's tweets Monday morning and over the weekend make it harder for the courts to justify doing that. The travel ban is supposed to be a temporary remedy until the government can review its vetting procedures. But Trump's tweets make it appear that the ban itself is his goal. Trump repeatedly and defiantly uses the word "ban" when his administration has instead sought to call it a pause. The tweets "undermine the government's best argument—that courts ought not look beyond the four corners of the Executive Order itself," Stephen Vladeck, an expert on national security and constitutional law at the University of Texas School of Law, says via email. "Whether or not then-Candidate Trump's statements should matter (a point on which reasonable folks will likely continue to disagree), the more President Trump says while the litigation is ongoing tending to suggest that the Order is pretextual, the harder it is to convince even sympathetic judges and justices that only the text of the Order matters." And once the courts start looking at the president's statements, it's not hard to find ones that raise questions about anti-Muslim motivations. Even the president's allies acknowledge his tweets are a problem. George Conway, the husband of top Trump adviser Kellyanne Conway, responded to Trump on Twitter by pointing out that the work of the Office of the Solicitor General—which is defending the travel ban in court—just got harder. These tweets may make some ppl feel better, but they certainly won't help OSG get 5 votes in SCOTUS, which is what actually matters. Sad. https://t.co/zVhcyfm8Hr — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 5, 2017 Conway, who recently withdrew his name from consideration for a post at the Justice Department, then followed up to clarify his position. 2) ... and of course, my wonderful wife. Which is why I said what I said this morning. Every sensible lawyer in WHCO and every political ... — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 5, 2017 3) ... appointee at DOJ wd agree with me (as some have already told me). The pt cannot be stressed enough that tweets on legal matters ... — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 5, 2017 4) ... seriously undermine Admin agenda and POTUS--and those who support him, as I do, need to reinforce that pt and not be shy about it. — George Conway (@gtconway3d) June 5, 2017 Trump may soon see his tweets used against him in court. Omar Jadwat, the ACLU attorney who argued the case before the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals, told the Washington Post this morning that the ACLU's legal team is considering adding Trump's tweets to its arguments before the Supreme Court. "The tweets really undermine the factual narrative that the president's lawyers have been trying to put forth, which is that regardless of what the president has actually said in the past, the second ban is kosher if you look at it entirely on its own terms," Jadwat told the Post. Full Article Politics Donald Trump
av Coronavirus: स्मार्टफोन से फैल सकता है कोरोना वायरस, ऐसे करें डिवाइस की सफाई By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:42:19 +0530 Coronavirus how to sanitize your phone at home: कोरोना वायरस भारत में तेजी से फैल रहा है। ऐसे में जरूरी है कि आप अपने हाथ समय-समय पर धोते रहें। साथ ही अपने फोन को भी हमारे बताएं गए तरीकों के जरिए सैनिटाइज करना ना भूले। Full Article
av Coronavirus in India Live Updates: पिछले 24 घंटे में सीआईएसएफ के 18 और जवान पॉजिटिव, संक्रमितों की संख्या 64 हुई By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:34:20 +0530 वैश्विक महामारी कोरोना वायरस से निपटने के लिए लगाया गया लॉकडाउन जारी है। आज लॉकडाउन 3.0 का सातवां दिन है। वहीं, देशभर में संक्रमित मरीजों की संख्या में लगातार बढ़ोतरी हो रही है Full Article
av Coronavirus in Himachal Pradesh: दो और संक्रमित, 54 पहुंचा आंकड़ा By www.amarujala.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 09:56:03 +0530 हिमाचल प्रदेश में कोरोना वायरस के दो और पॉजिटिव मामले आए हैं। दोनों ही हिमाचल के निवासी नहीं हैं। Full Article
av China reports 14 new coronavirus cases, high-risk area resurfaces By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 21:39:55 -0400 Full Article
av Australia's biggest state to ease coronavirus lockdown from May 15 By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:18:13 -0400 Full Article
av S. Korea reports 34 new coronavirus cases, highest in a month By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:45:56 -0400 Full Article
av Thailand reports five new coronavirus cases, no new deaths By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:35:33 -0400 Full Article
av Japan looks to lift coronavirus emergency in some areas ahead of May 31 deadline By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 01:36:05 -0400 Full Article
av Britain's Johnson to set out five-tier coronavirus warning system By news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 03:31:05 -0400 Full Article
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av 6 Tips to Help Your Startup Survive the Coronavirus Pandemic By feedproxy.google.com Published On :: Fri, 08 May 2020 15:00:00 GMT Don’t panic, be compassionate, and help others Full Article the-institute the-institute/ieee-products-services
av U.S. CDC reports 1,274,036 coronavirus cases, 77,034 deaths By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 15:52:29 -0400 The U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) on Saturday reported 1,274,036 cases of the new coronavirus, an increase of 25,996 cases from its previous count, and said the number of deaths had risen by 1,557 to 77,034. Full Article domesticNews
av Three key U.S. coronavirus officials in self-quarantine after COVID-19 exposure By feeds.reuters.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 03:07:21 -0400 Three senior officials guiding the U.S. response to the coronavirus pandemic were in self-quarantine on Saturday after coming into contact with someone who had tested positive for the disease, their agencies and spokesmen said. Full Article domesticNews
av Rahul Gandhi Demands Audit of PM-CARES Fund, Says 'Record of Money Received & Spent Should be Made Available to Public' By in.news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 12:57:04 -0500 New Delhi, May 9: Congress leader Rahul Gandhi on Saturday demanded that Prime Minister Narendra Modi should ensure an audit of PM-CARES. Rahul Gandhi said that PM-CARES fund received huge contributions from public sector units (PSUs) and organisation, including Indian Railways. Full Article
av IAS Officer With Month Old Baby, Telangana Woman Who Rode 1,400 Km: Supermoms And Coronavirus Warriors By in.news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:11:00 -0500 These mothers deserve a huge round of applause! Full Article
av IAS Officer With Month Old Baby, Telangana Woman Who Rode 1,400 Km: Supermoms And Coronavirus Warriors By in.news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 00:11:50 -0500 These mothers deserve a huge round of applause! Full Article
av Pathetic condition of Jammu-Srinagar NH leaves travellers fuming By in.news.yahoo.com Published On :: Sun, 10 May 2020 02:19:32 -0500 Full Article
av Ethiopia Says It Shot Down Coronavirus Aid Plane, Believing It Was On 'Suicide Mission' By www.newsweek.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 20:56:55 -0400 A Kenyan plane carrying humanitarian medical supplies to help aid the COVID-19 pandemic in Somalia was reportedly been shot down earlier this week by the Ethiopian army. Full Article
av Guy Fieri Raises More Than $20 Million for Restaurant Workers Affected by Coronavirus By variety.com Published On :: Sat, 09 May 2020 22:57:11 +0000 The Mayor of Flavortown is giving back to restaurant workers around the country. Guy Fieri has helped raise more than $20 million by partnering with the National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation, he announced in an interview with TMZ. He and the organization have been sending restaurant workers $500 grants through the newly created Restaurant Employee […] Full Article News Guy Fieri
av Here’s How To Make Your Favorite Ice Cream Truck Treats Before The Summer’s Over By viralnova.com Published On :: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 01:33:54 +0000 No need to wait for the ice cream truck now. Full Article Culture
av Minister Jitendra Singh comes to help NE students facing leave-hostel notice in DU By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T13:30:12+05:30 The minister for Development of the North Eastern Region (DoNER) intervened after the DU administration asked the students to vacate the North Eastern Students House for Woman by May 31. Full Article
av Lockdown brings change in buying behaviour, more older people hop onto digital tech: Survey By economictimes.indiatimes.com Published On :: 2020-05-10T13:37:18+05:30 The study also found that COVID-19 has helped in forming an opinion for pushing the 'Make in India' agenda, with 42 per cent believing that "there is an active and deliberate attempt by China to spread COVID across the world for economic gains" which has led to a strong anti-China sentiment. Full Article
av Closing the Value Gap & Saving the Creative Middle Class By www.canadianmusicianpodcast.com Published On :: Wed, 24 Jul 2019 19:25:34 +0000 Music Canada recently shared its latest report, “Closing the Value Gap: How to Fix Safe Harbours and Save the Creative Middle Class.” As the title suggests, the report examines the gap between revenues derived by online entertainment platforms - particularly YouTube - and the revenues returned to artists and labels, then offers five recommendations on how to address the issue. On this week's podcast, Mike and Graham Henderson, Music Canada's President and CEO, dive into the report before getting into some important big picture conversations about philosophical shifts in how music is paid for, how the industry can make its case to the public and government, and even some politics. Also, please visit www.friendsofjohncody.com and consider helping one of our own in dire circumstances. Full Article
av Ajungi - Amplifying the Artists of Nunavut By www.canadianmusicianpodcast.com Published On :: Thu, 12 Dec 2019 03:49:06 +0000 Ajungi – pronounced AH-YUNG-EE – is a Nunavut-based music collective made up of up-and-coming artists from across the territory. The concept was created by artist and entrepreneur Thor Simonsen, the creative director of Hitmakerz, an Iqaluit-based record label that delivers music workshops to remote communities across Nunavut and records, produces, and releases music by many Inuit artists. Simonsen joins us to talk about the project's inception and goals, what the workshops and recording sessions entail, how they benefit the artists' careers and communities, and a lot more. http://canadianmusician.com http://ajungi.ca Full Article