| Rep. Katie Hill, freshman targeted by revenge porn, resigns with a blast at Trump Posted: 31 Oct 2019 12:11 PM PDT  During her final speech on the House floor Thursday, Rep. Katie Hill apologized for actions that led to her resignation while also boasting that her last vote as a member of Congress was in favor of the impeachment inquiry into President Trump.
|
| Biden in Fourth Place in Latest Iowa Poll Posted: 01 Nov 2019 05:54 AM PDT  Former vice president Joe Biden fell to fourth place in the latest poll of Democratic presidential primary candidates in Iowa.The poll, conducted by the New York Times and Siena College, shows Massachusetts senator Elizabeth Warren in the lead with 22 percent of the prospective vote. Vermont senator Bernie Sanders placed second with 19 percent, while South Bend, Indiana, mayor Pete Buttigieg took 18 percent.Biden received 17 percent of the vote.As part of the poll, respondents were asked which candidate they were most confident could beat President Trump in the elections. The survey found voters were most confident in Biden's and Warren's chances of winning against the incumbent president.Warren's surge to the front of the latest Iowa poll comes as details of her universal medicare plan were revealed Friday morning. The Senator's proposal, while similar to that of Sanders, would cost $52 trillion over ten years. The plan would be funded by taxes on employers as well as taxes on rich Americans and corporations, in addition to Warren's trademark wealth tax.A previous survey of Iowa caucus voters found Biden in the lead, barely edging out Warren.Biden also retains the national lead in the Democratic primaries, according to RealClearPolitics. The former vice president gained the lead in a CNN poll released October 23.Buttigieg, while not polling well nationally, surged in Iowa recently. The Indiana mayor has sought to portray himself as a moderate alternative to Warren and Sanders, and questioned their ability to fund universal medicare coverage during the October Democratic primary debate.
|
| The Latest: PG&E equipment sparked 3 Bay Area fires Posted: 01 Nov 2019 04:13 PM PDT  Northern California officials say Pacific Gas & Electric Co. equipment caused three fires that broke out in San Francisco suburbs earlier this week. The Contra Costa County Fire Protection District confirmed Friday that the utility's power lines sparked a pair of fires Sunday in Lafayette east of San Francisco. One of the fires destroyed the Lafayette Tennis Club.
|
| U.S., allies working to offset loss of Iranian oil: Mnuchin Posted: 01 Nov 2019 09:51 AM PDT  The United States is working with allies to ensure adequate global oil supplies after its sanctions barred nations from buying Iranian crude, U.S. Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said on Friday. Mnuchin spoke to reporters during a trip to India - which was one of the main importers of Iranian oil until New Delhi stopped the shipments this May in the aftermath of the U.S. sanctions. "We are working with our allies to make sure that there is significant supply in the market of oil to offset sanctions," said Mnuchin, who is on a regional tour to try to build up support against Iran.
|
| A union for 28,000 American Airlines cabin crew has told Boeing's CEO its members are scared of getting back on the 737 Max Posted: 01 Nov 2019 03:38 AM PDT  Lori Bassani, who leads the Association of Professional Flight Attendants, wrote to Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg about the 737 Max crisis.
|
| Aniah Blanchard's UFC Fighter Stepdad Says Missing Alabama Teen Is 'Amazing' Posted: 01 Nov 2019 04:12 PM PDT  Aniah Haley Blanchard, 19, was reported missing by her family on Oct 24. The last time she was heard from was by a friend the night before, according to authorities.
|
| Thanks to Trump, the U.S. hasn't admitted a single refugee since September Posted: 01 Nov 2019 05:10 PM PDT  "There are few people in more vulnerable situations than a teenage girl alone in a refugee camp."
|
| Biden stumbles over words, struggles to deliver his message to voters Posted: 31 Oct 2019 06:55 AM PDT  Joe Biden was making an impassioned case for protecting immigrants in the country illegally one recent Sunday when he abruptly stopped himself. "There's many more things, but —" he said before trailing off at a union forum. Six months into his presidential campaign, Biden is still delivering uneven performances on the debate stage and on the campaign trail in ways that can undermine his message.
|
| Hedge fund billionaire fires back at Warren: 'Your vilification of the rich is misguided' Posted: 31 Oct 2019 03:38 PM PDT  Hedge fund mogul Leon Cooperman takes issue with Sen. Warren's plans for a wealth tax.
|
| Graphic: Examining the weapons and tactics used by police and protesters in Hong Kong Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:05 AM PDT  As the showdown between police and protesters in Hong Kong has intensified, officers have used increasing force, deploying an arsenal of crowd-control weapons, including tear gas, pepper spray, rubber bullets, sponge grenades and bean bag rounds. Protesters have also stepped up their actions, hurling petrol bombs, vandalizing mainland Chinese banks and businesses believed to be pro-Beijing, throwing bricks at police stations and battling officers in the streets, sometimes with metal bars. Reuters scrutinized hundreds of images of the protests, as well as dozens of police reports and video footage, and combined this research with reporting on the ground to document the weapons used by the police and protesters, and how the violence has increased from day to day.
|
| Kids of U.S. Immigrants Move Up Just Like Those 100 Years Before Posted: 31 Oct 2019 12:30 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- Children of U.S. immigrants tend to earn more than their parents and have higher rates of upward mobility than their American-born peers.Those are some of the conclusions in a working paper circulated this week by the National Bureau of Economic Research that explores how immigrants often improve their children's prospects in life -- and shows those born to recent immigrants are moving up just like those who came to American shores a century before.Many immigrants earn less than U.S.-born workers upon arrival, and while they don't completely catch up in a single generation, their children do, according to the research by Ran Abramitzky of Stanford, Leah Platt Boustan and Elisa Jacome of Princeton University, and Santiago Perez of the University of California at Davis."Children of immigrants from nearly every sending country have higher rates of upward mobility than the children of the U.S.-born," they said.They also directly take on the politics around immigration, which was a central theme during the 2016 election that installed Donald Trump as president and remains a controversial topic as the country gears up for the 2020 campaign."Although some politicians have a short-term perspective on immigrant assimilation, our findings suggest that this view might underestimate the long-run success of immigrants," they wrote. "Our findings are more consistent with the idea of the 'American Dream,' by which even immigrants who come to the U.S. with few resources and little skills have a real chance at improving their children's prospects."The analysis tracks immigrants using historical data that stretch back more than 100 years. The first earliest groups consist of 4 million first-generation immigrants and their children in the 1880 or 1910 censuses, with the first group mostly from northern and western European nations such as Ireland or Germany, and the second including more from the southern and eastern parts of the continent who are thought to have faced more initial disadvantages in the labor market.The researchers then follow the children of those groups to the 1910 and 1940 censuses using information on their names, ages and birthplaces. The historical data show "immigrant families were more likely than the U.S.-born to move to areas that offered better prospects for their children," the researchers wrote.To contact the reporter on this story: William Edwards in Washington at wedwards29@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Margaret Collins at mcollins45@bloomberg.net, Jeff Kearns, Alister BullFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
|
| Maskless Merkel braves severe Delhi smog Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:38 AM PDT  German Chancellor Angela Merkel got a toxic welcome to India on Friday as Prime Minister Narendra Modi treated her to a military parade in New Delhi's severely polluted air. Ignoring medical advice to the choking megacity's 20 million inhabitants, Merkel and Modi reviewed a guard of honour at the presidential palace without pollution masks. The European Union's longest-serving leader is due to step down in 2021.
|
| Latest Impeachment Witness: I Wasn’t Worried That Trump Broke the Law With Call Posted: 31 Oct 2019 12:18 PM PDT  SAUL LOEB/AFP/Getty ImagesTim Morrison, a senior White House official who listened to President Donald Trump's controversial call with Ukraine's President Volodymyr Zelensky, said he did not worry Trump broke the law on the call. He also said he was not aware of any meaningful material being left out of the White House's memo on the call."I want to be clear, I was not concerned that anything illegal was discussed," he said in a prepared statement to Congress obtained by The Daily Beast. After the call between Zelensky and Trump took place, Morrison directed that the transcript of it be put on a secret White House server. He said that the memo the White House released about the call is, to the best of his memory, complete and thorough. Another witness, NSC official Alex Vindman, suggested that noteworthy parts of the conversation were missing from the White House's memo.Those dual statements from Morrison may prove to be a setback for Democrats who have argued that the call amounted to an impeachable offense since it involved the president demanding an exchange of a political favor for military aid. Morrison, who served as the senior director for European affairs on the National Security Council until his resignation on Wednesday, says he had a different recollection of events than what Ambassador Bill Taylor described in his Oct. 22 testimony—including an episode that appeared to indicate the lofty expectations that Trump and his team had for Zelensky's commitment to investigating the Bidens. John Bolton Brings a Nuclear Superhawk Into the White HouseIn his testimony, Taylor recounted a conversation in which Morrison briefed him on another conversation between Ambassador Gordon Sondland and a top adviser to Ukrainian president Volodymyr Zelensky. Taylor said Morrison informed him that Sondland, the U.S. ambassador to the European Union at the heart of the impeachment inquiry, told Zelensky-aide Andriy Yermak that U.S. security aid wouldn't come until Zelensky publicly committed to an investigation into Burisma, the company on whose board Hunter Biden served.That is not how Morrison remembers it. "My recollection is that Ambassador Sondland's proposal to Yermak was that it could be sufficient if the new Ukrainian prosecutor general, not President Zelensky, would commit to pursue the Burisma investigation," Morrison told impeachment investigators. Morrison concluded his opening remarks with something that GOP lawmakers have noted frequently: that the hold on Ukraine's security aid ultimately was released. "I am pleased our process gave the president the confidence he needed to approve the release of the security sector assistance," said Morrison. "My regret is that Ukraine ever learned of the review and that, with this impeachment inquiry, Ukraine has become subsumed in the U.S. political process."On Thursday morning, Republicans hinted that Morrison's testimony might undermine aspects of the narrative Democrats have constructed on impeachment so far. They noted that his opening statement had not yet surfaced, as it frequently had with other witnesses in the inquiry. But other parts of Morrison's opening statement did seem to bolster the idea that Trump was applying a pressure campaign on the Ukrainians through a non-official channel. Morrison noted that his predecessor, former national security official Fiona Hill, had told him that Sondland and the president's personal lawyer Rudy Giuliani "were trying to get President Zelensky to reopen a Ukrainian investigation into Burisma." Morrison went on to say that "At the time, I did not know what Burisma was or what the investigation entailed.""I did not understand why Ambassador Sondland would be involved in Ukraine policy," he added. Morrison was slated to be the first senior White House official to testify to the impeachment inquiry, but he resigned just hours before his appearance. On the eve of his testimony on Thursday, NPR broke the news that he would be leaving the post after less than two years on the job.A senior administration official quoted by The Washington Post said in a statement that Morrison had "decided to pursue other opportunities — and has been considering doing so for some time." However, Morrison's appearance still comes in defiance of a White House directive that officials not cooperate with the probe, and congressional officials said that he appeared for testimony after being issued a subpoena. Morrison's testimony occurred as the House took a vote to formally codify the impeachment investigation and bring it into a so-called "public" phase. Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
|
| Photos show Paradise, California, one year after the worst US wildfire in a century killed 85 people and destroyed a community Posted: 31 Oct 2019 04:01 AM PDT  The cleanup in Paradise, California, shows no sign of ending. 18,000 buildings were razed by the Camp Fire, and residents must start from scratch.
|
| A plane flying from Portugal to Scotland was mistakenly told it was flying near the North Pole when its navigation gear malfunctioned Posted: 01 Nov 2019 05:43 AM PDT  A Ryanair Boeing 737-800 was flying to Edinburgh when it experienced a number of malfunctions, including with the plane's altitude readings.
|
| Jury finds Chicago gang member guilty in the murder of 9-year-old Tyshawn Lee Posted: 01 Nov 2019 08:20 AM PDT  A jury found gang member Drwight Boone-Doty guilty Thursday in the murder of Tyshawn Lee, a 9-year-old boy was shot and killed.
|
| Brazil authorities zero in on ship suspected of oil spill Posted: 01 Nov 2019 01:39 PM PDT  After oil mysteriously washed ashore on some 2,100 kilometers (1,300 miles) of Brazil's coastline for two months, authorities on Friday identified a suspect: a Greek-flagged ship belonging to Delta Tankers Ltd. Brazil's government has been striving to investigate the cause of the spill that has hit 286 beaches along the northeast coast and hurt fishing and tourism. The specific source of the oil has remained unclear since it began appearing in early September.
|
| UPDATE 6-Democrat Warren: Medicare for All would not raise U.S. middle-class taxes 'one penny' Posted: 01 Nov 2019 05:57 AM PDT ![UPDATE 6-Democrat Warren: Medicare for All would not raise U.S. middle-class taxes 'one penny']( "UPDATE 6-Democrat Warren: Medicare for All would not raise U.S. middle-class taxes 'one penny'") NEW YORK/WASHINGTON, Nov 1 (Reuters) - Democratic U.S. presidential candidate Elizabeth Warren on Friday proposed a $20.5 trillion Medicare for All plan that she said would not require raising middle-class taxes "one penny," answering critics who had attacked her for failing to explain how she would pay for the sweeping healthcare system overhaul. The proposal to remake the U.S. healthcare system will face scrutiny from Warren's more moderate Democratic opponents, who have questioned Medicare for All's practicality. Warren's proposal also calls for cuts in defense spending and passing immigration reform to increase tax revenue from newly legal Americans, two steps that would face an uphill battle in Congress.
|
| Tropical Cyclone Maha to threaten flooding, damaging winds in western India by middle of next week Posted: 01 Nov 2019 09:36 AM PDT  Tropical systems will continue to be the source of wet weather in India through the first full week of November.Maha, now a severe cyclonic storm that formed in the Arabian Sea on Wednesday, has slowly moved in a northwest direction while continuing to strengthen over the last few days.Maha is currently packing winds up to 110 km/h (68 mph), equivalent to a Category 1 hurricane in the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific oceans. The above satellite image shows Maha spinning off the western shores of India on Friday, 1 November. (Photo/NASA) Many of the typical impacts expected from a such a strong system have been kept at bay, due to Maha's offshore path. While staying parallel to the western coast of India, the strongest winds have remained over open water, with occasional downpours reaching western parts of the country."The northwesterly track is expected to continue for Maha into Monday, keeping most of the wind and rain offshore," said AccuWeather Senior Meteorologist Dave Houk.Gradual strengthening into a very severe cyclonic storm is expected during this time, which is comparable to a Category 3 hurricane in the Atlantic Ocean.However, by Tuesday, AccuWeather meteorologists anticipate that Maha will hook eastward and head for the Gujarat region of western India.While southern and coastal parts of Gujarat may get some of the outer rain bands from Maha into Monday night, the heaviest rainfall will wait until later Tuesday and Wednesday. "When Maha moves closer to the Indian coast, it's likely to still be a very severe cyclonic storm, bringing increasingly dangerous winds and flooding rainfall," added Houk.While the proximity to land may ultimately weaken Maha before it makes landfall, gusty winds are likely to cause tree damage as well as power outages.Rounds of tropical downpours and locally heavy rainfall looks to stretch from the Gujarat coast to southern and eastern Rajasthan as well as northern Madhya Pradesh into Thursday. This amount of rainfall can amount to flooding, especially in poorly drained or low-lying areas.Both the rain and wind are likely to cause travel disruptions for many in the region.The rest of the western shores of India will continue to endure daily downpours next week as onshore flow brings moisture in from the Arabian Sea.Maha will not be the last of the tropical influences on India in early November.Meteorologists have been monitoring the lingering energy from what was once Tropical Storm Matmo, a tropical system that which crossed the western Pacific Ocean and made landfall in Vietnam late in October.The concern is that as the energy emerges into the Andaman Sea and Bay of Bengal late next week, it could redevelop into a tropical system."While such a development could spell more tropical rainfall for parts of India, any impacts felt to the country are likely to wait until somewhere around Nov. 9," said Houk.Until that time, most of the rainfall will remain over open waters, while some showers reach parts of Myanmar as well as the Adnaman and Nicobar Islands.
|
| Belgium told to bring back IS mother, children from Syria Posted: 31 Oct 2019 02:59 AM PDT  Belgian authorities have been ordered to repatriate a woman who joined the Islamic State group and her two children from the camp in Syria where she is being held, a lawyer for her family said Thursday. The Belgian government has 75 days to bring back the 23-year-old Belgian woman and her children from the Al-Roj camp controlled by Kurdish fighters under the order issued by a Brussels court, the lawyer, Nicolas Cohen, told AFP, confirming a report on Belgian state television. The ruling lays bare a debate in Europe over the fate of European citizens who left to join IS and who are now being held in camps in Syria and Iraq following the defeat of the jihadists' so-called "caliphate".
|
| 'Very sloppy': Rudy Giuliani, Trump's cybersecurity adviser, went to an Apple store to get his iPhone unlocked Posted: 31 Oct 2019 10:43 AM PDT  Cybersecurity experts told NBC that Giuliani going to a third-party location for technical help violated basic security protocols.
|
| Hillary Clinton Denounces ‘Toxic’ Political ‘Falsehoods’ after Accusing Tulsi Gabbard of Allying with Republicans Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:55 AM PDT  Former secretary of state Hillary Clinton urged for more "good and particularly young and diverse people" to brave "all kinds of accusations and falsehoods" in politics on Wednesday, less than a month after suggesting 38-year-old Samoan-American Tulsi Gabbard (D., Hawaii) is a "favorite of the Russians" in the 2020 election."Get involved and make it less toxic. I think you have to go in very clear eyed about what the current environment in our political system is," Clinton told the audience during a panel with her husband Bill Clinton and Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg at Georgetown Law School. "You will be a target, and all kinds of accusations and falsehoods will be leveled against you, and online media makes it pervasive, so you do have to understand that [if] you put yourself into the public arena in today's world, the costs are ones you have to be willing to bear."Clinton made headlines earlier this month for suggesting on a podcast that Gabbard — who stated to CNN in August that she would not run as a third-party candidate — may be "a Russian asset" and could run as a third-party candidate to help Republicans. In 2016, Gabbard resigned as vice chairwoman of the Democratic National Committee in order to endorse Senator Bernie Sanders (I., Vt.) over Clinton.Gabbard responded by calling Clinton "the queen of warmongers, embodiment of corruption, and personification of the rot that has sickened the Democratic Party for so long," and challenged her to run in 2020. Other Democrats, including Sanders, criticized Clinton for the "outrageous" claim that Gabbard is a foreign asset.In a Wall Street Journal op-ed published Tuesday, Gabbard stated she was running "to undo Mrs. Clinton's failed legacy.""Hardly a week goes by when I'm not asked a question about how I'm being secretly backed by Russia or other foreign powers—on top of countless other falsehoods intended to destroy my reputation. Those who are indebted to the war machine and the overreaching intelligence agencies, as well as their cheerleaders in the media, are determined to take me down because they know they can't control me. I'm directly challenging their power," Gabbard wrote.At the panel on Wednesday, Bill Clinton left the door open to Hillary running in 2020, saying "she may or may not run for anything, but I'm never running for president again."
|
| Convicted rapist mistakenly released from Georgia prison captured in Kentucky Posted: 31 Oct 2019 05:30 AM PDT  Tony Maycon Munoz-Mendez was serving a life sentence in Georgia when he was released "in error." Authorities captured him in Kentucky Wednesday.
|
| New execution date set for Georgia inmate Posted: 01 Nov 2019 03:04 PM PDT  Georgia officials set a new execution date Friday for a death row inmate two days after he was granted a temporary reprieve because of a legal technicality. Ray Jefferson Cromartie, 52, is scheduled to die by lethal injection Nov. 13 at the state prison in Jackson. Georgia Corrections Commissioner Timothy Ward set the execution for the first date of a seven-day window ordered Friday by a Superior Court judge in Thomas County.
|
| China responds to reports of U.S. grounding its fleet of Chinese-made drones Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:33 AM PDT  China's foreign ministry said on Thursday after reports that the United States Department of the Interior had grounded its fleet of Chinese-made drones that it hoped Washington would "stop abusing the concept of national security" and provide a nondiscriminatory atmosphere for Chinese companies.
|
| View Photos of Honda's SEMA Lineup Posted: 01 Nov 2019 09:00 AM PDT |
| Exxon, Chevron Begin Pushing Back Against Warren’s Fracking Ban Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:53 PM PDT  (Bloomberg) -- America's two biggest oil companies are starting to push back against the fracking ban touted by the leading candidates for the Democratic presidential nomination, which may become one of the most consequential flashpoints for energy markets during the election campaign.Exxon Mobil Corp. and Chevron Corp. executives spoke out publicly against the proposals for the first time on Friday, saying they would shift profits from crude production from the U.S. to other countries, and may increase prices for consumers while doing nothing to reduce oil demand or greenhouse-gas emissions.It's a line of attack that's likely to feature heavily in debates in the year ahead as the energy industry and Republicans seek to counter the Democratic Party's green wing. To be sure, whoever gets elected next year will find it difficult to end fracking. Presidential powers to enact a ban only extend to federal lands, something that would be certain to face immediate legal challenges. A wider restriction would need to go through Congress."Any efforts to ban fracking or restrict supply will not remove demand for the resource," Neil Hansen, Exxon's vice president of investor relations, said on a conference call with analysts. "If anything it will shift the economic benefit away from the U.S. to another country, and a potentially impact the price of that commodity here and globally."Elizabeth Warren and Bernie Sanders, two front-runners in the race to be the Democratic candidate, are keen to stop America's reliance on fossil fuels, and they also want to end what they say is Washington's subservience to corporate interests. They also know how to hit Exxon and Chevron where it hurts. Five years ago, both companies produced little crude from fracking and might have even have benefited from a ban if it led to higher oil prices. But now fracking is the fastest-growing part of their global businesses and a key profit driver.Hydraulic fracturing of shale rock is pushing U.S. oil production to record highs, touching 12.4 million barrels a day in August. Exxon said Friday its output from the Permian Basin in West Texas and New Mexico had boomed by more than 70% in the third quarter from a year earlier. Chevron, a bigger Permian producer, saw its output there climb 35%.That wave of supply has ensured lower gasoline and energy prices for domestic consumers, bolstered economic growth for states such as Texas and North Dakota, and restored the country to ranks of the world's major crude exporters."It's really unlocked an economic huge economic benefit for the country, as well as for the companies involved," Jay Johnson, the boss of Chevron's upstream business, said during the company's earnings conference call.But fracking also has costs, particularly in terms of the climate. Cheap fossil fuels typically mean people use more of them, causing higher emissions. Hansen said that while Exxon shares concerns about climate change, "there are more effective policies" such as a revenue-neutral carbon tax and technology initiatives.To contact the reporter on this story: Kevin Crowley in Houston at kcrowley1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.net, Joe CarrollFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
|
| U.S.-Led Coalition Blocks Russia in Syria While Allowing Turkey to Terrorize the Kurds Posted: 01 Nov 2019 04:59 AM PDT  Syrian Kurds are stuck between Donald Trump's 2016 campaign promise to "take the oil" and a hard place.
|
| Honduras joins El Salvador in obtaining protected status extension in U.S Posted: 01 Nov 2019 11:13 AM PDT ![Honduras joins El Salvador in obtaining protected status extension in U.S]( "Honduras joins El Salvador in obtaining protected status extension in U.S") The U.S. government has extended temporary protection for Hondurans living in the United States by a year, Honduran officials said on Friday, following a similar extension for Salvadorans in a rollback of U.S. plans to end the program. U.S. President Donald Trump last year said he would shut down temporary protected status (TPS) for Hondurans and Salvadorans after a January 2020 expiration, amid a slew of measures meant to crack down on growing numbers of migrants from Central America. "On our part, we will keep working to find a permanent and humane solution for our Honduran brothers," Honduran President Juan Orlando Hernandez said in a Tweet on Friday, adding that TPS covers more than 40,000 Hondurans.
|
| The chosen bun: Decade-old burger's decay livestreamed in Iceland Posted: 31 Oct 2019 07:08 PM PDT  A decade after McDonald's shut down in Iceland, thousands of online users follow the live slow decay of the last order -- a seemingly indestructible burger with a side of fries protected in a glass case like a precious gem. The American chain closed its only three branches in Iceland during the subarctic island's financial crisis in 2009, making it one of the only Western countries without a McDonald's. On October 31 of that year, just before the restaurant's closure, Hjortur Smarason bought a menu for conservation.
|
| 50 Tips for Better Interneting Posted: 31 Oct 2019 09:42 AM PDT |
| Police officer retires after far-right group ties revealed Posted: 01 Nov 2019 07:48 AM PDT ![Police officer retires after far-right group ties revealed]( "Police officer retires after far-right group ties revealed") A Connecticut police officer has retired after a civil rights organization raised concerns about his membership in a far-right group known for engaging in violent clashes at political rallies, a town official said Friday. Officer Kevin P. Wilcox retired from the East Hampton Police Department on Oct. 22, according to Town Manager David Cox. Wilcox had been an East Hampton police officer since 1999.
|
| Have Kentuckians finally had enough of Mitch McConnell? Posted: 01 Nov 2019 10:40 AM PDT  A recent poll shows that Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, the president's most stolid defender, is down to an 18 percent job approval rating in Kentucky. Only 37 percent in a recent Public Policy Poll said they would vote for him again next year.
|
| Chasing shadows in China: Detained lawyer's wife battles on Posted: 01 Nov 2019 11:14 AM PDT  With winter approaching, Xu Yan brought some warm clothes and money for her husband to a detention centre in eastern China, though she's not even sure the arrested human rights lawyer is still being held there. Xu, 37, has travelled some 20 times from Beijing to Xuzhou in Jiangsu province in a vain struggle to get any information about Yu Wensheng after he was taken into custody last year. Xu returned again this week, joining the line at the Xuzhou City Detention Centre with other people bringing plastic bags bulging with thick duvets and sweaters for inmates.
|
| Warren Admits Universal Medicare Would Result in Two Million Lost Jobs Posted: 31 Oct 2019 08:38 AM PDT  Senator Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.) agreed on Wednesday with an assessment that a "medicare for all" plan would eliminate roughly two million jobs.Warren was speaking during an interview at New Hampshire Public Radio."An economist at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, told Kaiser Health News earlier this year that that could result in about 2 million jobs lost," mostly within the healthcare industry, said NHPR reporter Casey McDermott."So I agree," Warren replied. "I think this is part of the cost issue and should be part of a cost plan."The economist cited by McDermott, Robert Pollin of the Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts, had stated politicians who want to set up a "medicare for all" system would need a plan for how to treat those who would lose their jobs.Warren previously said she hasn't nailed down the specifics of her medicare proposal. The Senator has vacillated between endorsing Bernie Sanders's plan and calling it a "framework," whose details she plans to fill out.In the Wednesday interview, McDermott asked Warren when prospective voters would be able to see her full medicare proposal."Soon," Warren answered. She also declined to specify whether the plan would raise taxes on middle class workers."We will see most likely rich people's costs go up, corporations costs go up, but the costs to middle class families will go down," Warren asserted. "I will not sign any legislation into law for which costs for middle class families do not go down."Sanders on Tuesday also declined to provide specific details as to how he would pay for his universal medicare plan.""You're asking me to come up with an exact detailed plan of how every American — how much you're going to pay more in taxes, how much I'm going to pay," Sanders told CNBC. "I don't think I have to do that right now."
|
| The Afghanistan Withdrawal Will Make Syria’s Seem Orderly Posted: 01 Nov 2019 05:13 AM PDT  Trump is right to recognize that Americans are tired of "endless wars." But withdrawing from Afghanistan without a workable solution will mean the country will fall to the Taliban all over again.
|
| Ancient treasures go on display in London Tutankhamun exhibition Posted: 01 Nov 2019 12:07 PM PDT ![Ancient treasures go on display in London Tutankhamun exhibition]( "Ancient treasures go on display in London Tutankhamun exhibition") Treasures from the tomb of boy-king Tutankhamun will go on show in London from Saturday as part of what organisers say will be their last world tour before they return to Egypt for good. More than 150 items - from statues and sculptures to a silver trumpet and a funerary bed - will be exhibited in "Tutankhamun: Treasures of the Golden Pharaoh", at the capital's Saatchi Gallery. "The reason we are here, we are celebrating almost 100 years since the time of the discovery of the tomb of Tutankhamun," exhibition curator Tarek El Awady told Reuters.
|
| Distressing photos show glaciers that are disappearing or on the brink of collapse around the world Posted: 01 Nov 2019 01:27 PM PDT  The future of glaciers around the world is shaky. Here are photos showing some of the glaciers that might not be around for much longer.
|
| 4 Killed, Several Injured in Shooting at Airbnb Halloween Party in California. Here's What to Know Posted: 01 Nov 2019 04:19 AM PDT  The mass shooting at a Halloween party at an Airbnb in Orinda, Calif. left four people dead and several others injured.
|
| U.S. and Kurdish soldiers: Side by side just days ago, battling ISIS, now the Kurds are under attack Posted: 01 Nov 2019 07:54 AM PDT  Trump's abandonment of Kurdish allies fighting ISIS shocked members of the U.S. military and left it scrambling to protect American forces in Syria.
|
