| Deputy AG Rod Rosenstein offers biting defense of Russia investigation, jabs Obama administration Posted: 26 Apr 2019 08:46 AM PDT  Deputy AG Rosenstein offers staunch defense of Russia investigation
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| 25 years in prison for ex-Florida policeman who shot black motorist Posted: 25 Apr 2019 02:58 PM PDT  A former Florida police officer was sentenced to 25 years in prison on Thursday for fatally shooting a black man whose car had broken down on the highway. Nouman Raja, 41, was convicted of manslaughter and attempted murder last month for the October 2015 shooting of Corey Jones, a 31-year-old musician. Raja, a former member of the Palm Beach Gardens police force, is the first police officer to be convicted in Florida for the on-duty shooting death of a black man in three decades.
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| Never ending Mueller report: Today's Toon Posted: 25 Apr 2019 07:29 PM PDT  Want to keep up with USA TODAY's editorial cartoons? Bookmark this page. We'll update it frequently.
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| Anita Hill deserves a real apology. Why couldn't Joe Biden offer one? Posted: 26 Apr 2019 04:08 AM PDT  His failure to genuinely say sorry makes Biden not seem like a responsible, self-aware man who has learned from his mistakes and wants to make amends'It's the same demand she's had for years: not for a simple acknowledgement that she has suffered, but for a way to ensure that other women don't have to suffer the same way.'' Photograph: Jennifer Law/AFP/Getty ImagesJoe Biden's long-awaited presidential announcement finally came on Thursday, in the form of a policy-free video in which the former vice-president castigated Donald Trump for his racism and offered peans to an imagined noble American past (presumably, the past of 2008-16, when Biden served under Barack Obama) instead of a vision for the future."America's coming back like we used to be," Biden said of his run. "Ethical, straight, tell 'em the truth. Supporting our allies, all those good things." It was Make America Great Again, delivered from a different old white man, with a slightly more patrician east coast accent – harking back to a past that never was, and ignoring or, perhaps, tacitly embracing the injustices that the real past contained.Several of those injustices have been perpetrated by Biden himself, or exacerbated by his career in the Senate, in which he worked steadily to push the Democratic party to the right, championed the 1994 crime bill that needlessly and sadistically accelerated mass incarceration, and cultivated a chummy, shoulder-clapping consensus with Republicans.Among those injustices were the 1991 confirmation hearings of Clarence Thomas, now one of the most fiercely conservative justices on the supreme court. As chair of the Senate judiciary committee, Biden led the hearings into accusations of gross sexual harassment by Thomas that had been unearthed from Anita Hill, a lawyer who had once been Thomas' employee at the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC). Under Biden's leadership, the committee subjected Hill to a humiliating public ordeal in which she was belittled, condescended to, smeared and disbelieved.It was a spectacle of cruelty in which Biden and his all-male committee colleagues confirmed the dark suspicions of many American woman, on live TV: that men could harass and humiliate them with impunity. Hill was harangued in the press, which concocted a bizarre and evidence-free theory, encouraged by Republicans, that she had invented her accusations against Thomas because she was sexually obsessed with him. Biden and his cohort confirmed Thomas anyway.In an interview with the New York Times this week, Hill, now a law professor at Brandeis, revealed that Biden contacted her last month. She "declined to characterize his words to her as an apology".In the past, Biden, under pressure from women's rights activists and a Democratic base increasingly intolerant of sexual misconduct, has spoken of the Thomas hearings in passive terms, as something that happened rather than as something he did. At an event in New York in March, he said: "To this day, I regret I couldn't give her the kind of hearing she deserved. I wish I could have done something." Like his announcement, this statement partakes of a kind of rosy historical revisionism, one that conveniently absolved Biden of all responsibility. Because he absolutely could have, in his words, "done something". He was the chairman of the committee overseeing the hearings. There was no one with more power to "do something" than him.> He seems to understand Hill as an annoying obstacle to his own rise, rather than as a full person with rights and dignityBiden's non-apology to Hill, coming as it did 28 years after the disastrous hearings, six months after a similarly humiliating and futile ordeal was endured by Dr Christine Blasey Ford, who accused Justice Brett Kavanaugh of sexual assault, and mere days before Biden's own presidential run, smacks of insincere opportunism. He seems to understand Hill as an annoying obstacle to his own rise, rather than as a full person with rights and dignity, whom he wronged and should make amends to.His insistent use of the passive voice, meanwhile, makes him appear to lack an understanding of his own agency and power, like someone who will exaggerate his responsibilities for successes and disavow any role in missteps, wrongdoings and failures. As the journalist Bryce Covert put it: "There's a huge difference between 'I'm sorry for what I did', and 'I'm sorry that happened to you'." In failing to grapple with his own blind spots, privileges, prejudices and personal failures, Biden has betrayed a lack of personal responsibility that in unacceptable in any adult, let alone in a national leader. The episode does not make Biden seem like a responsible, self-aware man who had learned from his mistakes and wants to make amends. It makes him seem like a man who wants to shut a woman up.To her credit, Hill has not taken the bait. Where a person of less fortitude would have understandably wanted to put the hearings behind them, Hill has been unwavering in her insistence that the way she was treated was wrong and unwilling to compromise in her search for real justice. "I cannot be satisfied by [him] simply saying, 'I'm sorry for what happened to you,'" she told the New York Times. "I will be satisfied when I know there is real change and real accountability and real purpose."It's the same demand she's had for years: not for a simple acknowledgement that she has suffered, but for a way to ensure that other women don't have to suffer the same way. "Rather than expect an apology, which in political terms is a pretty easy act to do," she told the writer Irin Carmon in 2014, "I would like for us to improve our processes, and ensure that we do not allow this to happen ever again." * Moira Donegan is a Guardian US columnist
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| North Korean leader says peace on Korean peninsula depends on U.S. attitude: KCNA Posted: 25 Apr 2019 04:40 PM PDT  Kim's remarks were seen as keeping pressure on the United States to be more flexible in accepting Pyongyang's demands to ease sanctions, compared to the U.S. stance during his unsuccessful second summit with U.S. President Donald Trump in Hanoi in February. The North Korean leader said at the time he would wait until the end of the year for the United States to become more flexible. "The situation on the Korean peninsula and the region is now at a standstill and has reached a critical point where it may return to its original state as the U.S. took a unilateral attitude in bad faith at the recent second DPRK-U.S. summit talks," KCNA reported Kim as saying, using North Korea's official name, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
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| 'I smiled in the face of bigotry': A woman's response to anti-Islam protesters goes viral Posted: 26 Apr 2019 03:24 PM PDT  A group of anti-Islam protesters gathered at a conference in Washington, D.C. One woman's reaction: 'I smiled in the face of bigotry.'
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| House Dem. Threatens Trump Officials with ‘Incarceration’ for Refusing to Honor Subpoenas Posted: 26 Apr 2019 08:28 AM PDT  Representative Gerry Connolly (D., Va.), a member of the House Oversight Committee, said Friday that the panel might resort to the threat of incarceration should Trump administration officials continue to ignore its numerous subpoena-backed requests for documents."We're going to resist, and if a subpoena is issued and you're told you must testify, we will back that up," Connolly told CNN's Wolf Blitzer. "And we will use any and all power in our command to make sure it's backed up — whether that's a contempt citation, whether that's going to court and getting that citation enforced, whether it's fines, whether it's possible incarceration. We will go to the max to enforce the constitutional role of the legislative branch of government."The president and his advisers have said explicitly that they will not yield to Democrats' demands that officials testify before the Oversight Committee regarding the issuance of security clearances, the formation of the so-called zero-tolerance immigration-enforcement policy, and other matters.White House adviser Stephen Miller, former security-clearance official Carl Kline, and John Gore, a deputy assistant attorney general in the Justice Department's Civil Rights Division, have thus far all refused to come before the panel.Connolly emphasized in particular the Committee's desire to hear from Miller, whom he called Trump's "immigration whisperer," regarding what measures the administration plans to take to harden the southern border in the wake of Secretary of Homeland Security Kierstjen Nielsen's departure."We want to hear from him: What is your thinking, what is it you've been advising the president, and where is it you think you're going to be taking us as a country with these kinds of policies and personnel changes?" Connolly said of Miller.
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| Kill a 'Raptor': How to Shoot Down an F-22 Stealth Fighter Posted: 25 Apr 2019 06:00 PM PDT  The Chinese—like the Russians—have formidable electronic attack capabilities including DRFM jammers.The U.S. Air Force has as a tiny fleet of 186 Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor stealth fighters. That's all that survived out of 187 production aircraft (195 jets if developmental airframes are included) that were built out of the 750 that were originally planned. Of those 186 remaining Raptors, only 123 are "combat-coded" aircraft with another twenty that are classified as backup aircraft inventory machines. The rest are test and training assets.But even if 186 aircraft remain in the Air Force's inventory—not all of those fighters are operational. At least two—possibly more—jets are not currently flyable. One test aircraft—tail 91-4006—at Edward Air Force Base (AFB) in California has avionics that are so old; it's not worth bothering to fly it anymore. Another aircraft—02-4037—was badly damaged in a belly landing at Tyndall AFB, Fla. It's going to take at least four years and $98 million to repair the damage. The Air Force has also had trouble with repairing other F-22s due to snafus with retrieving improperly stored production tooling for the jet.This first appeared in October 2015.
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| The Latest: Boy died of blunt force trauma to head Posted: 25 Apr 2019 02:10 PM PDT  WOODSTOCK, Ill. (AP) — The Latest on death of the 5-year-old northern Illinois boy (all times local):
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| Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez joins Bernie in backing voting rights for prisoners Posted: 25 Apr 2019 10:52 AM PDT  Stepping into the debate over whether imprisoned felons should be allowed to vote, Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez endorsed the idea and advised opponents they risked "looking completely + utterly out of touch with the reality [of] our prison system."
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| Joe Biden Starts His Campaign as the Frontrunner. That Could Hurt Him Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:46 AM PDT  Many of Joe Biden's strengths may turn out to be weaknesses as his third presidential campaign gets underway this week.
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| N.Korea's Kim says US acted in 'bad faith' at Hanoi talks: KCNA Posted: 25 Apr 2019 03:22 PM PDT  North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has accused the United States of acting in "bad faith" during his Hanoi summit with President Donald Trump, and says peace on the peninsula depends on Washington, state media said Friday. Kim made the comments during his first summit with Russia's Vladimir Putin on Thursday in Vladivostok, the Korean Central News Agency reported, describing their talks as "unreserved and friendly". The comments also came about a week after Pyongyang demanded the removal of Secretary of State Mike Pompeo from stalled nuclear talks with Washington, accusing him of derailing the process.
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| Tesla's Musk agrees to new vetting rules for tweets in SEC deal Posted: 26 Apr 2019 04:07 PM PDT  Tesla Inc Chief Executive Elon Musk has reached a deal with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission to settle a dispute over his use of Twitter, agreeing to submit his public statements about the company's finances and other topics to vetting by its legal counsel, according to a court filing on Friday. If it is approved by a judge, the deal means the Tesla founder no longer faces the prospect of being held in contempt for violating an earlier settlement with the agency, which had required him to submit statements "material" to investors for prior review. Shares of Tesla rose 1.4 percent to $238.50 in after hours trading.
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| Police visited AJ Freund’s house 17 times before his brutal death. Why was the boy in his parents’ care? Posted: 26 Apr 2019 07:00 AM PDT  Last December, police reports indicated dog feces and urine were scattered throughout 5-year-old Andrew "AJ" Freund's home.
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| Iraq on track to be third oil supplier in 2030: IEA Posted: 25 Apr 2019 04:25 AM PDT  Iraq is on track to produce nearly six million barrels of crude daily by 2030, the International Energy Agency said Thursday, which would make it the world's third biggest oil supplier. The IEA's wide-ranging report found that Iraq's production in the next decade could increase by an impressive 1.3 million barrels per day to a total of 5.9 million bpd. "Iraq is and will remain one of the key pillars of the oil market in the years to come," IEA head Fatih Birol told reporters on Thursday.
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| Putin Chef's Firm Seeks Contempt Against Mueller Over Report Posted: 25 Apr 2019 02:02 PM PDT  Mueller and Attorney General William Barr must explain to a judge why they shouldn't be held in contempt for violating court rules with the 448-page report, according to a filing in Washington Thursday. Mueller and Barr violated the regulation by prejudging Concord's guilt and putting details about their evidence in the report, he said.
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| Could the inspector general's FISA probe derail Democrats' impeachment plans? Posted: 25 Apr 2019 05:02 AM PDT  Former Whitewater Independent Counsel Sol Wisenberg expects a hard-hitting report from Michael Horowitz.
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| Christians' ethnic inclusion in Sri Lanka keeps fragile calm Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:24 PM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — During the bad years, when rebels mostly from the ethnic minority Tamils and majority Sinhalese government forces were slaughtering each other in a horrific civil war, Gnanamani found solace in something many of her fellow Tamils didn't have: Christianity — and especially its long inclusion of both the Tamil and Sinhalese ethnic groups.
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| Why can't Twitter stop Trump's hateful tweets about Ilhan Omar? Posted: 26 Apr 2019 09:24 AM PDT  Congresswoman received death threats following video Trump posted – but he didn't technically violate the rules The rules just aren't the same for Donald Trump as they are for the rest of us. Twitter CEO Jack Dorsey apparently admitted as much this week on a phone call with Minnesota representative Ilhan Omar.As reported by the Washington Post, Dorsey, often criticized for his inaction when it comes removing hateful and threatening content from the platform, was asked by Omar why he hadn't taken down a video posted by Trump earlier in the month. The video, which spliced together misleading and out of context comments from Omar about the issue of Islamophobia with footage of the 9/11 attacks, was clearly targeted harassment to anyone who saw it.Indeed Omar said she saw a sharp uptick in death threats after it was posted. But since it came from Trump, and not an average Twitter user, there was nothing Dorsey could do, he said. The tweet didn't technically violate the rules in any case, he added. (Anyone who has used Twitter will understand the frustration at trying to parse what exactly those rules are.)The call with Omar came the same day Dorsey met with Trump in the White House, a meeting in which the president is said to have largely complained about his follower count."During their conversation, [Dorsey] emphasized that death threats, incitement to violence and hateful conduct are not allowed on Twitter," the social media platform said in a statement to the Post. "We've significantly invested in technology to proactively surface this type of content and will continue to focus on reducing the burden on the individual being targeted."Dorsey has said in the past that the public interest value of Trump's tweets outweigh the harm of his occasional calls for violence or threats against foreign governments or members of the media"Blocking a world leader from Twitter or removing their controversial tweets would hide important information people should be able to see and debate," the company explained in statement last year. "It would also not silence that leader, but it would certainly hamper necessary discussion around their words and actions."More recently Dorsey declined to say whether a hypothetical direct call from Trump to murder a journalist would be grounds for his banishment.The permissive double standard applied to Trump on Twitter hasn't stopped him from regularly suggesting that he is himself being treated unfairly. This week Trump tweeted that Twitter doesn't "treat me well as a Republican. Very discriminatory…" In fact it seems more probable that Republicans such as Trump are given much more leeway than others. A recent story from Motherboard reported that one of the reasons Twitter has had trouble removing white supremacist content from the platform, as they have largely done with the Islamic State, is that the algorithms they use might end up affecting Republican politicians."When you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything," Trump once said in a prescient boast.When it comes to his behavior as reported in the Mueller report, as well as his social media habits, it seems like Trump behaves like he can get away with anything. So far he's right.
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| Ex-Minnesota policeman says he shot Australian woman to protect partner Posted: 25 Apr 2019 05:08 PM PDT  Mohamed Noor, 33, is charged in the murder of 40-year-old Justine Ruszczyk Damond, whom he shot through his patrol car window during the night of July 15, 2017 in a dark alley while responding to her 911 call to report a possible sexual assault near her Minneapolis home. Noor testified in a Minneapolis courtroom that he shot Damond after he and his partner Matthew Harrity, who was in the driver's seat, heard a loud noise. Harrity had trouble removing his gun from its holster and "he turned to me with fear in his eyes," Noor said during his five-hour testimony.
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| Russian DNA: How the F-35 Was Partly Inspired By This Old Russian Fighter Posted: 25 Apr 2019 05:30 PM PDT  The Yak-141 Freestyle may not technically count as a predecessor to the F-35, but the JSF does seem to have at least some Russian DNA floating around its engine design — and as the F-35 came to fruition in the United States, the Yak-141 Freestyle died a quiet death in Russia. However, if a resurgent Russian defense industry chooses to move forward with a carrier-based VTOL aircraft, at least one Russian legislator has called for the Yak-141 to be revived, most likely with a stealthier new look for a new Cold War.For all the yelling and shouting over the Department of Defense's much-maligned F-35 Joint Strike Fighter program, there's an unusual, often overlooked footnote in the trillion-dollar project's history: its origins as an experimental Soviet fighter that only fell into Lockheed Martin's lap because a desperate Russian aerospace company needed some cold, hard cash.Before the F-35, there was the Yak-141 'Freestyle' multi-role vertical take-off and landing (VTOL) fighter born during a tumultuous period in Russian military history. Though the Yak-141's first flight in 1987 was a revolutionary contribution to the development of VTOL systems, the hovering death bird was largely developed as the Soviet Union came apart at the seams, and the newly-broke Russian military was in no position to continue development of the new aircraft after the Berlin Wall.(This first appeared in 2018.)
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| US agency to host meeting of global regulators on 737 MAX Posted: 25 Apr 2019 11:16 AM PDT  The Federal Aviation Administration has invited international regulators to Washington for a meeting on the issues facing the Boeing 737 MAX, which suffered two deadly crashes in recent months, an agency spokesman said Thursday. The forum, scheduled for May 23, aims to outline for civilian aviation regulators the US agency's process for returning the 737 MAX to service after the aircraft was grounded worldwide in mid-March following crashes by Ethiopian Airlines and October Lion Air that together claimed 346 lives. The session will "discuss the agency's activities toward ensuring the safe return of Boeing 737 MAX to service," an FAA spokesman said in an email to AFP.
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| Goldman Says How to Avoid Policy-Risk Woes in Health Stocks Posted: 25 Apr 2019 05:18 AM PDT  Goldman Sachs Group Inc. has a few ideas about how to navigate such a tricky environment. Investors who had been putting concerns about policy risk on the back burner, thinking election season was too far in the future to matter yet, all of a sudden had to focus on it again as of last week. Health-care stocks in the S&P 500 tumbled 4.4 percent last week versus a drop of 0.1 percent for the broader index, fueled by comments from insurer UnitedHealth Group Inc.'s CEO about the "Medicare for All" idea advocated by some progressive Democratic presidential candidates.
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| This Petty’s Garage Ford Mustang Is The Perfect Summer Muscle Car Posted: 26 Apr 2019 06:24 AM PDT  Some people mock those who decide to buy a convertible Mustang, making jibes about how it's a 'girl's car' and how it isn't a manly Mustang. Well, prepare to have such shortsighted comments shutdown by this seriously potent pony car. This 2018 Ford Mustang Petty's Garage King Edition packs some power, all while its occupants enjoy the sunshine.
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| Schools curb students' appetites for Grubhub, Uber Eats deliveries during school day Posted: 25 Apr 2019 11:04 AM PDT  Kids like food delivered via apps such as DoorDash, Grubhub and Uber Eats, but schools worry about safety concerns and class disruptions.
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| AP Interview: Sri Lanka's PM says potential bombers at large Posted: 25 Apr 2019 12:06 PM PDT  COLOMBO, Sri Lanka (AP) — Sri Lanka's prime minister said Thursday that suspects linked to the coordinated Easter Sunday bomb attacks remain at large and could have access to explosives.
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| North Korean leader warns of return to tension; Trump thanks Putin Posted: 26 Apr 2019 09:12 AM PDT  Kim's remarks during talks with Putin on Thursday appeared aimed at pushing Washington to be more flexible on North Korean demands for an easing of international sanctions. U.S. President Donald Trump, who ended a second summit with Kim in February without a deal for North Korea to give up its nuclear weapons, seemed unperturbed, saying a lot of progress was being made toward an agreement and welcoming Putin's support. Putin said after holding his first face-to-face talks with Kim in the Russian Pacific port of Vladivostok on Thursday that U.S. security guarantees would probably not be enough to persuade Pyongyang to give up its nuclear program.
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| A.J. Freund case: Police report reveals harrowing details of boy's short life Posted: 25 Apr 2019 06:46 AM PDT  After the body of 5-year-old Andrew "A
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| White House to Congress: top Trump immigration aide won't testify Posted: 25 Apr 2019 09:45 AM PDT  In a letter on Wednesday to the House of Representatives Oversight Committee, the White House said Stephen Miller would not testify before the committee about Trump immigration initiatives, including the policy of separating migrant children from their parents and his threat to send illegal immigrants to so-called sanctuary cities. "In accordance with longstanding precedent, we respectfully decline the invitation to make Mr. Miller available for testimony before the committee," the White House counsel said in the letter, which was provided to Reuters on Thursday. The refusal is part of a wider pushback by the Republican president against legal requests from the Democratic-led House, which is conducting several investigations of his administration, including his tax returns, White House security clearances and possible obstruction of justice by Trump.
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| Microsoft tops trillion-dollar mark for first time Posted: 25 Apr 2019 07:13 AM PDT  Microsoft hit the trillion-dollar value mark Thursday for the first time, becoming the third technology giant to reach the symbolic milestone. Shares in Microsoft rallied some five percent to $130.59 in early Wall Street trade after a robust earnings report a day earlier. At its current levels, Microsoft is the world's most valuable company, ahead of Apple and Amazon, which last year topped $1 trillion before slipping back.
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| India Amory Releases New Table Linens, and Partners with Mottahedeh to Show Them Off Posted: 26 Apr 2019 01:31 PM PDT  Julia Amory, purveyor of colorful block-printed linens, is out with her spring collection of tablecloths and napkins
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| Militia group 'commander' Larry Mitchell Hopkins attacked in New Mexico jail Posted: 25 Apr 2019 02:46 AM PDT  Officials said they're investigating an assault on Larry Mitchell Hopkins that occurred Monday at the Doña Ana County Detention Center in Las Cruces.
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| EU slams Russia citizenship move as new attack on Ukraine Posted: 25 Apr 2019 06:39 PM PDT  BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union hit out Thursday at Russia's move to fast-track citizenship applications from people living in conflict areas in eastern Ukraine, slamming it as an attack on Ukraine's sovereignty that undermines an already-fragile peace agreement.
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| Trump's visits Buttigieg country for speech at NRA convention but singles out only Bernie Sanders Posted: 26 Apr 2019 12:05 PM PDT  President Donald Trump visited Pete Buttigieg territory for the NRA convention and mentioned Bernie Sanders but not the South Bend mayor.
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| Joe Biden comforts grieving Meghan McCain by telling her that death gets easier Posted: 26 Apr 2019 11:30 AM PDT  A day after announcing his 2020 presidential bid, former Vice President Joe Biden appeared on ABC's "The View." He was asked by co-host Meghan McCain, whose father, Sen. John McCain, died in August, if death ever gets easier.
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| Warren’s College-Loan Plan Is a Decent Start Posted: 25 Apr 2019 07:30 AM PDT  The proposal has three basic components — making public universities free, providing more funding for historically black colleges and universities, and cancelling large amounts of student debt. The idea of free public universities is something I've argued against in the past. Warren's plan would use government funding to replace the lost tuition, but this system might not allow universities to increase their expenditures in the future to meet the needs of research or educational-quality improvements.
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| Sri Lanka's crisis of leadership opens space for nationalist Rajapaksas Posted: 25 Apr 2019 04:45 AM PDT  Elections to pick a new president are due between October and December and Mahinda Rajapaksa is already targeting President Maithripala Sirisena and his Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe for failing to preserve the hard fought peace. Rajapaksa cannot contest for president again, but his brother Gotabaya is ready to make a bid, his aide has said. "Rajapaksas' will take the easy benefit and be able to claim with some credibility that if they come back to power, they will adopt the same strong security policy that allowed them to free the country from terrorism," said a Western diplomat.
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| Want a Bugatti Chiron? Better Hurry Up and Wait Posted: 26 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT  Fewer than 100 units of this 16-cylinder hypercar are still available.
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| Come on a Guided Tour of Where F-35 Stealth Fighters are Born Posted: 24 Apr 2019 07:00 PM PDT  Flynn explained that the stealth engineering contributing to the F-35 has some origins as far back as the Gulf War-era F-117 NightHawk. "With the F-117, we learned how to embed antennas in the leading edge of the airplane. This concept went right into the F-22," Flynn added.(Ft. Worth, Texas) -- Filled with stacks of fuselage panels, engine components and a wide assortment of pipes, electronics and avionics, the sprawling F-35 construction facility in Ft. Worth, Texas, resembles a small city filled with engineers, mechanics, electricians and airplanes at various stages of construction.This first appeared earlier in April 2019.While some stations include vertically-hanging airplane wings, rudders, pipes and intricate collections of wires running through the fuselage, others contain little more than an assortment of seemingly disconnected small parts. Farther along the mile-long construction strip, heavily trafficked by workers, builders and engineers, there are bays with nearly completed F-35 with a light-green exterior. These "about to be finished" F-35s, roll into a separate environmentally-controlled hanger where they await a final coat of blended gray paint - giving the aircraft its color.
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| The Latest: Kim upbeat on eve of 1st summit with Putin Posted: 24 Apr 2019 06:20 PM PDT  VLADIVOSTOK, Russia (AP) — The Latest on the summit between Vladimir Putin and Kim Jong Un (all times local):
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