| Trump on Omar: 'She's got a way about her that is very, very bad' Posted: 16 Apr 2019 07:03 AM PDT  President Trump continued to criticize Rep. Ilhan Omar, D-Minn., a day after the congresswoman said a video the president posted had led to an increase in death threats against her.
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| Parents of Swedish coder held by Ecuador say he is innocent Posted: 16 Apr 2019 12:43 PM PDT  QUITO, Ecuador (AP) — The parents of a Swedish programmer suspected of plotting to blackmail Ecuadorian President Lenin Moreno over his abandonment of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange made an anxious plea Tuesday for authorities to release their son.
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| Jussie Smollett purposely misled police by saying assailants were white, lawsuit alleges Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:16 AM PDT  "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett purposely attempted to mislead police by falsely describing the men who he said attacked him on a cold January night as white men, the city of Chicago claimed in a civil lawsuit filed Thursday.
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| Woman claims to spot Jesus in photo of flaming Notre Dame Cathedral roof Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:16 PM PDT  A woman who was reading about the Notre Dame Cathedral fire couldn't believe it when she spotted a figure in a photo of the historic church's flaming roof.
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| 'Yellow vest' Libya protesters say France backs Tripoli assault Posted: 16 Apr 2019 07:47 AM PDT  Dozens of "yellow vest" protesters rallied Tuesday in the Libyan capital to denounce what they said was France's support for military strongman Khalifa Haftar who has launched an offensive on Tripoli. The demonstrators donned yellow vests in a nod to the jackets worn by anti-government protesters who have been rallying across France since November. "France must stop backing the rebel Haftar," read one sign held up by the demonstrators gathered in central Tripoli's Algiers Square.
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| Young woman obsessed with Columbine found dead after frantic manhunt Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:43 PM PDT  The body of Sol Pais, a student from Surfside, Florida, was found by authorities about 40 miles (64 km) west of Columbine High School, at about 10:30 a.m. local time, said Dean Phillips, special agent in charge of the Denver office of the FBI. Pais was found alone in a wooded area of Clear Creek County and appeared to have shot herself with the pump-action shotgun she had purchased after arriving in Colorado from Miami earlier this week, Phillips said at a news conference hours later.
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| Porsche Collection Destroyed in Explosion Posted: 17 Apr 2019 05:56 AM PDT  A large explosion rocked Durham, North Carolina on 10 April 2019, something that sadly claimed the life of one individual and injured 15. The building itself also contained one of America's largest Porsche collections according to the Charlotte Observer. The rather unassuming red brick building didn't boast about the treasures within, but video from the Charlotte Observer revealed a huge hole in the roof and the charred remains of what appears to be a 550 Spyder amongst other less identifiable wreckage.
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| Driver of car and 6 victims hit in North Philadelphia all being investigated, police say Posted: 17 Apr 2019 09:56 AM PDT  Philadelphia police are saying arrests could potentially be on the way for some of the 6 people who were hit by a speeding Buick in North Philadelphia Tuesday.
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| Trump news: President 'doesn't regret' tweeting 9/11 video about Ilhan Omar, as first 2020 Republican challenger emerges Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:09 AM PDT  President Trump has pledged his support to the people of France after the iconic Notre Dame cathedral suffered a devastating fire last night. On Twitter, the president noted it was "horrible" to watch the scenes from Paris, and suggested "flying water tankers could be used to put it out." It was confirmed this morning that the fire had been entirely extinguished.The White House said it will offer France "assistance in the rehabilitation of this irreplaceable symbol of Western civilization.""The United States stands with French citizens, the city of Paris, and the millions of visitors from around the world who have sought solace in that iconic structure," Press Secretary Sarah Sanders said.Closer to home, Trump is also facing his first Republican challenger for the 2020 presidential election in the form of Massachusetts governor Bill Weld, although is it deemed unlikely that anyone will seize the party's nomination from the incumbent."I really think if we have six more years of the same stuff we've had out of the White House the last two years that would be a political tragedy, and I would fear for the Republic," Mr Weld told CNN's Jake Tapper on Tuesday. "I would be ashamed of myself if I didn't raise my hand and run.It was also announced late yesterday that the Mueller report into Russian interference in the 2020 presidential election, and any links to the Trump campaign, would be released in a redacted form to the public this Thursday.The president also defended his attack on Rep. Ilhan Omar despite an onslaught of death threats the Muslim congresswoman received recently.In an interview with a local news station in Minnesota, Mr Trump continued to disparage Ms Omar. "It's unfortunate," he said. "She's got a way about her that's very, very bad, I think, for our country. I think she's extremely unpatriotic and extremely disrespectful to our country."Read The Independent's updates as they happened below.Please allow a moment for the liveblog to load
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| Why closing the U.S.-Mexico border would be 'catastrophic' for this Texas city Posted: 17 Apr 2019 10:38 AM PDT  Trump's threat to seal the border has sent jolts of alarm across the U.S.-Mexico border, but few places feel it more acutely than Laredo, Texas.
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| Notre Dame Cathedral's History Has Always Been One of Destruction and Restoration Posted: 15 Apr 2019 07:17 PM PDT  French President Emmanuel Macron has promised to rebuild after a devastating fire
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| Mercedes 'very sorry' after China consumer gripe goes viral Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:58 AM PDT  German auto giant Mercedes-Benz apologised Tuesday over the ordeal of a Chinese car buyer who alleged mistreatment by an authorised dealership in a viral video that triggered consumer outrage. The woman, whose name has not been revealed, has said she purchased a new Mercedes from an authorised dealer in the northern city of Xi'an only to discover afterwards that it was leaking oil on the showroom floor. "We're very sorry for whatever happened," said Hubertus Troskas, a board member and head of China operations for Daimler, Mercedes' parent group.
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| Hackers unleashed 40 million cyberattacks on Ecuador after Julian Assange’s arrest Posted: 16 Apr 2019 05:08 PM PDT  Julian Assange's arrest at the end of last week by British officials who finally snatched him at the London embassy in Ecuador where he'd been living for years did not, in turns out, put the matter to rest for Ecuadorian officials.Patricio Real, the county's deputy minister for information and communication technologies, told Agence France Presse in an interview that Assange's controversial arrest prompted a massive wave of cyberattacks against the country. They added up to a whopping 40 million attacks and "principally come from the United States, Brazil, Holland, Germany, Romania, France, Austria and the United Kingdom," as well as from South America.Javier Jara, Ecuador's undersecretary of the electronic government department of the telecommunications ministry, added a little more context, telling the news service the attacks were "volumetric" and seemingly focused on overwhelming servers with traffic to render them useless. Those attacks hit the country's foreign ministry, central bank, office of the president, internal revenue service and a number of ministries and universities particularly hard.For the moment, Assange is being housed at London's Belmarsh Prison. The US has requested his extradition to the country to answer for a single charge of hacking a government computer, while Assange supporters fear it could be only a pretext to get him stateside where his legal woes would then quickly mount.On Monday, a federal judge in Virginia unsealed previously secret government documents that are part of the US' case against the Wikileaks founder, with the documents shedding new light on the government's allegations against him.Per a report from The Hill, the original affidavit and criminal complaint against Assange were made public in Virginia federal court for the first time since their filing in 2017. Among other things, those documents include chat logs between Assange and former US intelligence analyst Chelsea Manning.US authorities contend that Assange worked with Manning to crack a password that would provide access to a classified Defense Department network where secret information could then be obtained by the hackers.
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| UPDATE 4-U.S. Justice Department tells T-Mobile, Sprint it has concerns about merger deal -sources Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:59 PM PDT ![UPDATE 4-U.S. Justice Department tells T-Mobile, Sprint it has concerns about merger deal -sources]( "UPDATE 4-U.S. Justice Department tells T-Mobile, Sprint it has concerns about merger deal -sources") The U.S. Justice Department has told T-Mobile US Inc and Sprint Corp it has concerns about their proposed $26 billion merger in its current structure, sources familiar with the matter said on Tuesday, although no final decision has been made. Sprint shares fell about 9 percent after the bell as investors increased bets the deal would not be completed following a Wall Street Journal report the merger is unlikely to be approved as currently structured. Shares of T-Mobile fell 4 percent.
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| 20-year-old college student falls 100 feet off cliff to her death Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:21 AM PDT  Andrea Norton, a 20-year-old Briar Cliff University student, plummeted 100 feet to her death off a cliff during a school trip last weekend.
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| Health Stocks Crumble as Fears of ‘Medicare for All’ Snowball Posted: 17 Apr 2019 11:32 AM PDT  The slide began in earnest on Tuesday when UnitedHealth Group Inc. -- treated by investors as a bellwether for the insurance sector -- waded into the debate over "Medicare for All," which would expand government-administered coverage to most of the population and rewrite the businesses of U.S. health insurers, hospitals and doctors. The Tuesday losses capped the worst five-day stretch since 2011 for health insurers, despite UnitedHealth reporting earnings that beat analysts' estimates and raising its 2019 forecast. The slide in hospital and insurance stocks continued Wednesday, wiping out billions of dollars more in market value from some of the biggest health companies in the U.S. UnitedHealth fell 3.2 percent at 2:20 p.m. in New York.
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| Ocasio-Cortez backs boycott of New York Post over cover attacking Ilhan Omar Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:48 PM PDT  The freshman Democrat voices her support for a boycott of one of her hometown newspapers.
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| White House, Justice Department officials discussed Mueller report: media Posted: 17 Apr 2019 03:13 PM PDT ![White House, Justice Department officials discussed Mueller report: media]( "White House, Justice Department officials discussed Mueller report: media") U.S. Justice Department officials had numerous conversations in recent days with White House lawyers about the conclusions of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report on his investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election, the New York Times and ABC News reported on Wednesday. Mueller on March 22 submitted his report to U.S. Attorney General William Barr on his investigation into whether the campaign of Republican Donald Trump worked with Moscow to sway the election in his favor, and whether President Trump committed obstruction of justice with actions to impede the inquiry.
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| Cory Booker talks new tax credit plan during Iowa visit Posted: 15 Apr 2019 06:09 PM PDT  SIOUX CITY, Iowa (AP) — Democratic presidential candidate Cory Booker on Monday proposed a significant expansion of the earned income tax credit that he said would lower the annual tax bill for almost half of American taxpayers.
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| After Notre Dame fire, GoFundMe raised more than $1 million for burned black churches Posted: 17 Apr 2019 01:27 PM PDT  Prominent figures urged people not to forget to donate to the St. Landry Parish churches as money poured in for Notre Dame.
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| India acts against Tiktok app over pornography concerns Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:54 AM PDT  The Indian government on Tuesday ordered tech giants Google and Apple to take down the Chinese-owned Tiktok video app after a court expressed concerns over the spread of pornographic material, sources told AFP. Tiktok has already been banned in neighbouring Bangladesh and hit with an enormous fine in the United States for illegally collecting information from children. The app, which claims to have 500 million users worldwide with more than 120 million in India, has been fighting the effort to shut it down after a high court in Chennai called for the ban on April 3.
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| Man who threw child from Mall of America balcony was 'looking to kill': Police Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:04 PM PDT  Emmanuel Aranda, 24, grabbed the child and tossed him down nearly 40 feet on Friday, leaving the boy with life-threatening injuries, according to charging documents.
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| 2020 Nissan GT-R Adds Track-Ready Upgrades and 50th Anniversary Edition Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:00 PM PDT  Godzilla loses weight, learns new tricks, and turns 50.
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| First Stealth: Could the Legendary F-117 Still Go To War for America's Air Force? Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:00 PM PDT  But that's the real advantage of the F-22 and F-35 over not only the F-117, but also the Russian PAK-FA and Chinese J-20 and J-31. The F-117 was entirely dependent on an autorouter to map out its course to avoid threats before each mission. Both the F-22 and the F-35 have the ability to map out threats in real time and are equipped with pilot vehicle interfaces that can make sense of that information for the pilot. In that respect, the Joint Strike Fighter is head and shoulders above the Raptor thanks to years of technological advancements.With the U.S. Air Force considering the future makeup of its force structure, it is a good time to look at the evolution of stealth starting with the Lockheed Martin F-117 Nighthawk. That aircraft was retired in 2008, but would the F-117 still be useful today?The answer is that against most mid-range threats like Iran, absolutely. But against higher-end threats like Russia or China, not so much. Technology has advanced since engineers first dreamed up the F-117 "stealth fighter" concept.(This first appeared several years ago.)
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| Trump offers condolences, assistance to France's Macron after Notre-Dame fire: White House Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:22 PM PDT  President Donald Trump during a phone call on Tuesday expressed condolences to French President Emmanuel Macron over the Notre-Dame fire that devastated the Parisian landmark and offered U.S. assistance in rehabilitating the cathedral, the White House said. "Notre Dame will continue to serve as a symbol of France, including its freedom of religion and democracy," White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said in a statement.
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| Anti-gay protesters shout about Sodom and Gomorrah at Pete Buttigieg rally in Iowa Posted: 17 Apr 2019 09:55 AM PDT  "The good news is, the condition of my soul is in the hands of God, but the Iowa caucuses are up to you," Buttigieg responded, pointing at the crowd.
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| Donations for burned black churches up after Notre Dame fire Posted: 16 Apr 2019 04:58 PM PDT  NEW ORLEANS (AP) — A crowdfunding campaign for three African American churches in Louisiana recently gutted by arson was climbing Tuesday after social media posts urging the public not to forget the plight of the small houses of worship as the eyes of the world were on the fire-ravaged Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.
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| Instagram accounts of Iran Guards commanders blocked Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:37 PM PDT  The Instagram accounts of several Iranian Revolutionary Guards commanders have been blocked, the Tabnak news website reported Tuesday, with the photo-sharing website saying it was complying with US sanctions. The United States announced on April 8 that it has placed the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps, the ideological army of the Islamic republic, on their list of "foreign terrorist organisations". Tabnak, a site close to Iranian conservatives, said Instagram blocked the accounts of Major General Mohammad Ali Jafari, Major General Mohammad Bagheri and Major General Ghassem Soleimani.
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| Why Isn't American Express Accepted Everywhere? Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:35 AM PDT ![Why Isn't American Express Accepted Everywhere?]( "Why Isn't American Express Accepted Everywhere?") It has a lot to do with the fees credit card companies charge merchants when you make a purchase. Some merchants choose to not accept cards that charge higher swipe fees than others, like American Express. While the notion that American Express swipe fees are significantly higher than other credit card companies' swipe fees may be a bit of a myth, the fact is American Express has a lower acceptance rate than other card networks.
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| The 2020 Mercedes-AMG GLC63 SUV and Coupe Are Fresher Than Ever Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:45 PM PDT  Mild styling and performance upgrades keep the riotous twin-turbo V-8 compacts looking up-to-the-minute.
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| President Trump calls Omar 'very disrespectful' as war of words heats up Posted: 16 Apr 2019 01:51 PM PDT  Mohamed Ahmed, founder and executive director of Average Mohamed discusses Rep. Ilhan Omar's comments on 9/11, her war of words with Trump and the impact it has on the Muslim community.
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| Bernie’s Fox News Town Hall Was a Ratings Smash. More Dems May Follow Him There. Posted: 16 Apr 2019 11:56 AM PDT  Sen. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) Monday evening Fox News town hall event was the most-watched town hall event of the 2020 campaign thus far, according to early Nielsen data. And at least four other Democratic candidates are open to participating in one of their own. According to early Nielsen data, more than 2.5 million viewers tuned in to hear Sanders, a self-described "democratic socialist," make his case on Fox News during the 6:30pm hour, prior to primetime. That total viewership bested CNN's Bernie Sanders town hall event from back in February; and it doubled MSNBC's during the same time period on Monday evening, and nearly tripled CNN's. The prior town hall ratings record for the 2020 cycle was a CNN-hosted event with Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), which drew 1.95 million total viewers. Additionally, per Nielsen, Fox's Sanders event brought in 489,000 viewers between the ages of 25 and 54—a key demographic for cable-news advertisers—trouncing CNN's 281,000 tally and MSNBC's 208,000.The event, which took place in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, saw the Vermont senator discuss a wide range of topics and occasionally spar with moderators Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum. The Democratic National Committee banned the network from hosting one of its sanctioned debates, citing a New Yorker report on the network's close ties to President Trump. But the success of Sanders' town hall event—both in terms of ratings and the headlines generated—comes as at least three other presidential campaigns consider being involved in a similar event.South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg is in talks to participate in a Fox News town hall, a campaign aide told The Daily Beast, and he had been prior to the airing of Sanders' event. Meanwhile, the campaign for Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-CA)—the latest entry into the crowded Democratic contest—said "he's willing to do a Fox town hall, and we expect to start discussions with the network soon regarding a time and place." Discussions about doing so have not yet begun, according to the campaign but Swalwell had previously told The Daily Beast that he makes efforts to appear on the network. Julia Krieger, communications director for Rep. Tim Ryan's (D-OH) presidential campaign said that he is also "willing to do a town hall with Fox News," adding that "the campaign has reached out proactively to the network to express interest in this type of forum." She said that the network had also reached out to them.And Jennifer Fiore, a senior adviser to Julián Castro's campaign, told The Daily Beast that they are in conversations with the network as well."He's been a red state mayor and has always campaigned hard for every single vote on both sides of the aisle and will do the same thing in his campaign for president of the United States because everybody counts," she said. The network had previously said they hoped the DNC would reconsider its position on hosting a debate on Fox."We hope the DNC will reconsider its decision to bar Chris Wallace, Bret Baier and Martha MacCallum, all of whom embody the ultimate journalistic integrity and professionalism, from moderating a Democratic presidential debate," said Bill Sammon, Fox News' senior vice president and D.C. managing editor. "They're the best debate team in the business and they offer candidates an important opportunity to make their case to the largest TV news audience in America, which includes many persuadable voters."Update 6:25 P.M.: This story was updated to reflect an additional statement from Castro's campaign. —Andrew Kirell and Scott Bixby contributed reporting.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| UPDATE 6-Qualcomm shares soar on surprise settlement with Apple of long legal dispute Posted: 16 Apr 2019 12:11 PM PDT ![UPDATE 6-Qualcomm shares soar on surprise settlement with Apple of long legal dispute]( "UPDATE 6-Qualcomm shares soar on surprise settlement with Apple of long legal dispute") Qualcomm Inc on Tuesday won a major victory with a surprise settlement of its wide-ranging legal dispute with Apple Inc that includes a supply agreement paving the way for the iPhone to once again use Qualcomm modem chips. The settlement also incorporates a six-year patent license and a payment from Apple to Qualcomm, but the companies did not disclose the amount. Because Qualcomm is already shipping 5G chips while Apple supplier Intel Corp is still developing them, the deal gives Apple an opportunity to catch the iPhone up to Samsung Electronics Co Ltd and other manufacturers whose phones already work on the faster networks.
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| Mueller report: What will it say about the Trump campaign and Russia's efforts to sway the 2016 election? Posted: 17 Apr 2019 04:35 PM PDT  Until special counsel Robert Mueller's report is revealed, the charges he filed - and didn't – offer the only detail of the Russia probe's findings.
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| Lou Dobbs: ‘Political Decision’ to Rule Out Arson in Notre Dame Fire Posted: 16 Apr 2019 06:40 PM PDT  Fox BusinessFox Business Network host Lou Dobbs suggested Tuesday evening that French officials made a "political decision" to quickly rule out arson as the cause of the fire that destroyed much of the historic Notre Dame cathedral in Paris.While French authorities are currently treating the blaze as an accident and have ruled out—for the moment—arson and terrorism, baseless speculation and wild conspiracy theories have run rampant, especially on the right. Conservative host Glenn Beck, for instance, said: "If this was started by Islamists, I don't think you'll find out about it, because I think it would set the entire country on fire."Noting that French prosecutors are investigating the cause of the blaze, Dobbs said that "within just a matter of hours," authorities had ruled out arson.Citing an International Business Times article on recent church vandalism, the Lou Dobbs Tonight host stated that it was "perhaps overlooked" that 875 Catholic churches had been vandalized in 2018, adding that a church had been deliberately set on fire in Paris last month."This is context, this is not speculation, this is the situation right now in France and the recent history of what has happened to Catholic churches throughout the nation," Dobbs declared. "Ignored too often by some covering the tragedy, some who have ruled out speculation about the cause of the Notre Dame fire as they speculate—taking it as gospel that, well, arson was not the cause."He added: "That was a decision made within hours. It sounds like a different kind of decision. Perhaps a political decision, rather than one based on careful investigation of the facts. That would amount to speculation, wouldn't it?"Interestingly, Dobbs' questioning the cause of the fire and suggesting French officials are purposely dismissing the possibility it was maliciously set comes on the heels of two Fox News anchors cutting off interviews with guests for pushing conspiracy theories on the air.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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| LAPD: Nipsey Hussle shooting was result of personal dispute, not gang violence Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:38 PM PDT  Police chief Michel Moore urged suspect Eric Holder to surrender peacefully to "stop this (violence) from continuing."
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| 2020 Hyundai Sonata Preview Posted: 17 Apr 2019 07:52 AM PDT  2020 Hyundai Sonata Gets Fashionable Looks and a Phone-Based Key Hyundai debuted the totally redesigned 2020 Sonata sedan at the New York International Auto Show. Its distinctive design and cutt...
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| 7 High-Risk, High-Reward Stocks to Buy Posted: 17 Apr 2019 06:49 AM PDT ![7 High-Risk, High-Reward Stocks to Buy]( "7 High-Risk, High-Reward Stocks to Buy") The biggest investing winners are the ones that aren't afraid to take a risk on companies with huge long-term growth potential. Here are seven high-risk stocks to buy that could generate big returns, as rated by Bank of America analysts. Since the beginning of 2018, the stock of semiconductor company Advanced Micro Devices rallied from $9 to a high of more than $34, then fell back to $16 and shot up to about $30.
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| This heirloom tomato and beet salad is almost too pretty to eat Posted: 16 Apr 2019 08:16 AM PDT  Welcome to Best Bites, a twice-weekly video series that aims to satisfy yournever-ending craving for food content through quick, beautiful videos for theat-home foodie
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| Pelosi warns US will not strike Brexit trade deal with UK if Good Friday Agreement is undermined Posted: 16 Apr 2019 02:50 AM PDT  Nancy Pelosi has said there will be no chance of a US trade deal with the UK if the Good Friday Agreement is undermined by Brexit.Speaking at the London School of Economics, the speaker of the US House of Representatives warned a future trading arrangement between the two countries is not guaranteed, and said it would not happen if the UK's exit from the European Union violates the terms of the 1998 peace accord.Ms Pelosi said: "First of all it is very hard to pass a trade bill in the Congress of the United States, so there's no given anyway. But if there were any weakening of the Good Friday accords there would be no chance whatsoever, a non-starter for a US-UK trade agreement."The Good Friday accords ended 700 years of conflict. This is not a treaty only, it's an ideal, it's a value, it's something that's a model to the world, something that we all take pride in."It was a model and other people have used it as a model and we don't want that model to be something that can be bargained away in another agreement."The US played an influential role in the Northern Ireland peace process, and former senator George Mitchell served as a peace envoy to the region for then-president Bill Clinton, eventually overseeing the signing of the agreement between the UK and Irish governments and all political parties in Northern Ireland.Yesterday, the former prime ministers of the UK and Ireland, Tony Blair and Bertie Ahern, called for a second referendum on Brexit to protect the integrity of the Good Friday Agreement.One of the most influential democrats in Washington, Ms Pelosi is currently on a visit to the UK and Ireland, and met with Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn on Sunday, when the pair discussed the need to protect the Good Friday Agreement.Ms Pelosi is due to address the Irish parliament on Wednesday, and will meet with leaders from across the island during her visit.A post-Brexit trade deal with the US has long been an aspiration of Brexiteers, and has been advocated by President Trump himself. The proposed deal has also proved controversial in the UK because of perceived lower standards of food and other goods from the US. Speaking in Davos in January, Irish taoiseach Leo Varadkar also pointed out that the UK could struggle to negotiate free trade deals elsewhere around the world if the Irish border question remained unresolved.
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| Nissan brand Infiniti aims to launch first electric car in three years, made in China Posted: 17 Apr 2019 02:27 AM PDT  The first electric car for Nissan Motor Co's premium brand Infiniti will be a sporty sedan produced in China, the Japanese carmaker said in a statement viewed by Reuters ahead of a public announcement expected as soon as Wednesday. The vehicle would hit the market in around three years, and consumers would get a taste when the company unveils a concept car, dubbed the Qs Inspiration electric sedan, at the Shanghai auto show later this week, Nissan officials said. "China has the most growth potential for electric vehicles globally, especially in the premium segment," Infiniti Chairman Christian Meunier said in the statement seen by Reuters.
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| Trump vetoes measure to end US involvement in Yemen war Posted: 16 Apr 2019 09:09 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump vetoed a resolution passed by Congress to end U.S. military assistance in Saudi Arabia's war in Yemen.
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| The Mazda 6 Is Officially Getting a Diesel and All-Wheel Drive Posted: 17 Apr 2019 12:56 PM PDT  Like the CX-5 crossover, Mazda's mid-size sedan is getting a 2.2-liter turbo-diesel-finally.
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| How One Man’s Deleted Tweet Launched a Worldwide Notre Dame Conspiracy Theory Posted: 16 Apr 2019 05:06 PM PDT  Nicolas Liponne/GettyAs politician Christopher J. Hale watched the Notre Dame cathedral burn on Monday from Washington, D.C., he heard from a Jesuit friend in Europe who claimed that the blaze had been deliberately set. Hale, who ran unsuccessfully for Congress as a Democrat in Tennessee last year and writes opinion columns for Time Magazine, tweeted his friend's claim to his few thousand followers."A Jesuit friend in Paris who works in NotreDame told me cathedral staff said the fire was intentionally set," Hale wrote.Hale quickly tweeted that his friend had "zero evidence" for the claim beyond a purported conversation with cathedral staff, and he deleted the original tweet minutes later.But it only took those few minutes for his tweet to become a core piece of proof for right-wing conspiracy theorists who are convinced, without any actual evidence, that the fire was set by terrorists. With one tweet, Hale became sucked into a right-wing media machine eager to both rile up its audience and earn more traffic on social media."In retrospect, I absolutely never should have tweeted it in the first place," Hale told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. "I don't think I had the foresight about how much the worst parts of the internet will grasp for straws in their conspiracy theories." Before he deleted the post, Hale's post caught the eye of Jack Posobiec, a former promoter of the Pizzagate conspiracy theory who now works as a reporter at pro-Trump cable channel One America News. Posobiec highlighted Hale's claim that the fire had been deliberate to his own followers, which number more than 450,000. Suddenly, Hale saw Twitter users across the world citing his tweet as proof that fire was committed by terrorists. "I almost immediately said I was deleting the tweet," Hale told The Daily Beast. "It was clear to me, though, that any record of the tweet was going to be weaponized very quickly." Hale's tweet has become one of the most cited pieces of evidence for Notre Dame conspiracy theorists, even after French investigators said Tuesday that they found no evidence of arson and even though Hale was thousands of miles away from the fire when he sent his tweet. Screenshots of Hale's deleted tweet spread across Twitter. InfoWars wrote an entire article based on Hale's tweet, citing it a headline as proof that the fire was "deliberately set." Far-right activist Pamela Geller highlighted Hale's tweet on her blog in a post entitled "Notre Dame Cathedral Inferno "Intentionally Set.'" Geller's post spread on social media, earning hundreds of retweets on her Twitter account alone. Other right-wing blogs, including The American Mirror and talk radio host Michael Savage's site, also picked up and portrayed Hale's unintentional error as fact. "The tweet itself did not mention Islam whatsoever," Hale said. "But immediately it was right-wing provocateurs, Islamophobes, who used it."A day later, Hale's Twitter interactions are filled with people who see the deletion of his tweet as proof of a cover-up.'Should I use the Obama, 'It's a teachable moment?'" Hale said. "The big thing I would say is the weaponization of Twitter has evolved in such a way that no errant word, particularly in the midst of a crisis, is warranted."Read more at The Daily Beast.
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