Sunday, 30 June 2019

Democrats divided as pressure to impeach builds: ‘What are you waiting for?’

Dozens of Democrats have called for Trump impeachment proceedings in wake of Mueller’s report – but Pelosi has remained steadfast in opposing an inquiryNancy Pelosi on Capitol Hill in Washington DC, on 27 June. ‘I don’t think we should go down that path,’ she said of impeaching Trump in March. Photograph: Alex Brandon/APIn the House of Representatives the apparently frustrated Democratic congresswoman Alexandra Ocasio-Cortez, had one question for...

Beto O'Rourke visits children at migrant housing facility downtown

During his visit to Southwest Key's Casa Sunzal, O'Rourke said the children's situation is like the U.S. turning away Jewish refugees during World War II. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/300WkR...

Biden and school busing: Where he stood, what it means

That Joe Biden, the man picked by America's first black president as his number two, should now be suffering attacks over his record on race might seem surprising. Senator Kamala Harris, the only black woman in the Democratic presidential field, forcefully questioned Biden on his opposition in the 1970s to court-ordered busing programs aimed at integrating public schools. Harris noted, in a quavering voice, that as "a little girl in California" she...

U.S. federal judge blocks use of some funds for border wall

U.S. President Donald Trump has sought to build a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, but has so far proven unsuccessful at receiving congressional approval to do so. In February, the Trump administration declared a national emergency to reprogram $6.7 billion in funds that Congress had allocated for other purposes to build the wall, which groups and states including California had challenged. U.S. District Court Judge Haywood Gilliam in Oakland,...

Saudi Arabia intercepts two Yemen rebel drones: coalition

Two Yemeni rebel drones targeting southern Saudi Arabia were intercepted on Saturday, a Riyadh-led military coalition said, the latest in a series of assaults on the kingdom. The first drone targeted the province of Jizan and the second was aimed at a residential area in Asir province, the coalition said in a statement released by the official Saudi Press Agency. The rebels earlier claimed drone attacks on the airports in Jizan and Abha, the capital...

U.S. federal court delays adoption of healthcare rule on abortion

The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) and its opponents in a California lawsuit agreed on Friday to delay implementing a rule that would allow medical workers to decline performing abortions or other treatments on moral or religious grounds, according to a federal court filing. The move comes after President Donald Trump's administration announced the rule earlier in May. It has also championed several policies to restrict abortion...

Childcare might become 'available only in rich areas'

MPs warn that childcare in England risks becoming accessible only to the wealthy. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Lw9a...

New top story on Hacker News: Porting Wine to amd64 on NetBSD, first evaluation report

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2019 Home Run Derby field tracker: Christian Yelich, Ronald Acuna, Pete Alonso among confirmed hitters - CBS Sports

2019 Home Run Derby field tracker: Christian Yelich, Ronald Acuna, Pete Alonso among confirmed hitters  CBS Sports On July 8, the 2019 Home Run Derby will be held at Cleveland's Progressive Field. The Home Run Derby is, basically, a meaningless spectacle, but gosh, it is ... View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.tt/2YtOL...

Leg fat 'better than belly fat' for older women

Carrying fat on legs instead of the belly protects postmenopausal women from heart disease, a study suggests. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FH2g...

Childcare might become 'available only in rich areas'

MPs warn that childcare in England risks becoming accessible only to the wealthy. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Lw9a...

'Every day has been hell' since 'honour killing' of Banaz Mahmod

Payzee Mahmod speaks out about her sister's murder in 2006 and a planned TV drama on the case. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2Jg2G...

Leg fat 'better than belly fat' for older women

Carrying fat on legs instead of the belly protects postmenopausal women from heart disease, a study suggests. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2FH2g...

UPDATE 2-Fighting rages across Afghanistan as peace talks continue

Taliban suicide bombers killed at least 19 people in an attack on a government office on Saturday night, officials said, in the latest episode of violence in Afghanistan as peace talks continue to end the war. The Taliban, which rejects the election process, claimed responsibility for the attack. Taliban spokesman Qari Yousuf Ahmadi said the group's fighters also killed 57 members of the Afghan security forces in the attack and captured 11 others,...

Newark Airport reopens after being shut down due to 'airport emergency'

Newark Airport has reopened after it was shut down Saturday morning due to an "airport emergency." from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xjjm9...

Your iPhone will charge from 0% to 80% in under an hour with these two accessories

Here's the good news: all of Apple's iPhones from 2017 and later support 18W fast charging that can charge your phone from 0% all the way up to 80% in about 55 minutes! And now for the bad news: Apple's cheaped out and didn't include a fast charger in the box with any of its iPhone models. Seriously, you can buy a $1,500 iPhone XS Max and Apple still doesn't include a fast charger in the box. Ugh. Getting the charger and cable you need from Apple...

Trump: If There Was a Wall, Immigrant Dad and Daughter Who Drowned ‘Would Be Saved’

Kevin Lamarque/ReutersPresident Donald Trump said that if the wall along the southern border with Mexico had been built, the migrant dad and daughter who drowned this week “would be saved.”Speaking at a press conference in Osaka, Japan, where world leaders are gathered at the G20 summit, Trump took a moment to offer his take on the global shock in response to the photo of Salvadorian man Óscar Alberto Martínez Ramírez and his daughter, Valeria, who...

GOP senator: ‘Underestimate Joe Biden at your own peril’

Lindsey Graham also says of Kamala Harris: “She’s got game.” from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Xxkwx...

O'Rourke visits Mexico, meets turned away US asylum seekers

Democratic presidential candidate Beto O'Rourke visited Mexico on Sunday and listened to tearful immigrants say they fled Central American violence and turmoil to seek asylum in the U.S., but were turned away at the border. A fluent Spanish speaker, O'Rourke met around a table at a shelter with immigrants from El Salvador, Honduras and Guatemala, some of whom wept as they told of being denied entry into the U.S. while their asylum claims are processed....

Pandemonium in Panmunjom: Kim and Trump's hasty DMZ date

Donald Trump and Kim Jong Un's first two summits were highly choreographed affairs but their third date was an unscripted event seemingly arranged on a social media whim -- and threatened at times to descend into chaos. Trump admitted he did not know whether Kim would spurn his advances, delivered via Twitter. "When I put out the social media notification, if he didn't show up, the press was going to make me look very bad," the US president said. from...

Brookfield clinches $9 bln deal to buy Genesee & Wyoming -sources

Investment firm Brookfield Asset Management Inc has agreed to acquire U.S. freight railroad owner and operator Genesee & Wyoming Inc for close to $9 billion, including debt, people familiar with the matter said on Sunday. from Reuters: Company News https://ift.tt/2J3ne6l via IFT...

PRESS DIGEST- British Business - July 1

The following are the top stories on the business pages of British newspapers. Reuters has not verified these stories and does not vouch for their accuracy. from Reuters: Company News https://ift.tt/2XepWJU via IFT...

Ten people confirmed killed when small plane crashes into Texas hangar

All 10 people aboard a small airplane were killed on Sunday when their aircraft crashed into a hangar during takeoff from an airport in Addison, Texas, near Dallas, an airport official said. from Reuters: U.S. https://ift.tt/2NjLS...

Saturday, 29 June 2019

This Is the Battle That Decided World War II (Not What You Think)

While the tactical result of the battle was stunning – the U.S. sunk four Japanese fleet carriers Hiryu, Soryu, Kaga and Akagi, a heavy cruiser and destroyed 248 enemy aircraft – it is the perilous backdrop of America’s war fortunes in 1942 that make Midway’s tide-turning outcomes all the more significant.  Thursday, June 6th saw the 75th anniversary of the Allied invasion at Normandy, the amphibious assault phase of Operation Neptune, or what...

Biden's image as the inevitable nominee, the one to beat Trump, was dinged Thursday

Analysis: The problem for Joe Biden at the Democratic debate, Day 2, wasn't that he was so bad. It was that Kamala Harris was so good. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2RGzA7...

Western liberalism is obsolete, warns Putin, ahead of May meeting

Russian president says the Salisbury poisonings are not worth ‘all this fuss’ and that liberals can no longer ‘dictate’ to anyone‘The average person listens and says “who are these Skripals?”’ Vladimir Putin said in an interview with the Financial Times. Photograph: SPUTNIK/ReutersVladimir Putin has said ahead of his meeting with Theresa May at the G20 summit in Japan that relations between Britain and Russia should not suffer because of last year’s...

18 kidnapping victims found 'enslaved' in Houston home: Police

Authorities arrested and charged five people who allegedly kidnapped, smuggled and sexually assaulted multiple people in Houston. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2Lrhww...

Facebook page of Australian missing in North Korea mysteriously reappears

The Facebook page of an Australian man missing in North Korea reappeared then disappeared again on Saturday hours before Prime Minister Scott Morrison said Australia is still trying to find out what has happened to him. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Yops...

Cameroon opposition leader released after abduction in Anglophone region

The leader of one of Cameroon's main opposition parties was released by his captors on Saturday after being abducted by unidentified gunmen in the country's restive Anglophone region a day earlier, his party said. from Reuters: World News https://ift.tt/2Ym2s...

New top story on Hacker News: PiHole-Google: Completely Block Google and Its Services

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With Little to Celebrate, Mets Honor a Title-Winning Team

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'Madrid Central' protest: Thousands oppose suspension of anti-pollution plan

Protesters are calling on Madrid’s conservative mayor to reimpose strict car pollution restrictions. from BBC News - Home https://ift.tt/2JbRT...

New top story on Hacker News: Protest in Madrid as conservatives suspend ban on most polluting cars

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Russia agrees with Saudi Arabia to extend OPEC+ oil output deal

Russia has agreed with Saudi Arabia to extend by six to nine months a deal with OPEC on reducing oil output, Russian President Vladimir Putin said, as oil prices come under renewed pressure from rising U.S. supplies and a slowing global economy. from Reuters: Business News https://ift.tt/2KQbZzV via IFT...

Bernie Sanders open to new busing policies - Washington Examiner

Bernie Sanders open to new busing policies  Washington Examiner Harris dropped a bomb on Biden that's bigger than politics  CNN LISTEN: Biden Supported A Constitutional Amendment To End Mandated Busing In 1975  NPR President Donald Trump Suggests Busing Is Just a Way "To Get People to Schools"  Newsweek Biden draws more flak on busing opposition, as rivals question his views on states’ rights  The Washington Post View full coverage on Google News from Top stories - Google News https://ift.t...

UPDATE 1-Proxy adviser Glass Lewis recommends EQT shareholders vote for company's nominees

Proxy adviser Glass Lewis & Co has recommended that investors in natural gas producer EQT Corp vote in favor of the company's board nominees, putting it at odds with another proxy advisory firm which recommended voting in favor of a competing slate of directors proposed by Toby and Derek Rice. from Reuters: Company News https://ift.tt/2XJayt8 via IFT...

Biden responds to attack on his age: 'I'm still holding on to that torch'

Rep. Eric Swalwell went after former Vice President Joe Biden in the second Democratic presidential primary debate. Swalwell said Biden, who is 76 years old, should “pass the torch.” Biden rejected the California lawmaker’s critique. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XzHuo...

Iraqi general, U.S. Marine dispute murder charge against Navy SEAL

An Iraqi general and a U.S. Marine testifying in the murder trial of a U.S. Navy SEAL said on Thursday they never saw the platoon leader stab a wounded detainee in the neck, disputing the central allegation in the prosecution's war crimes case. A sworn deposition of Major General Abbas al-Jubouri, videotaped in San Diego earlier this month, was played for the seven-member jury on the second day of defense testimony in the court-martial of Navy Special...

Kamala Harris Is Surging and Birtherism Is Back

Photo Illustration by The Daily Beast/GettyKamala Harris broke out from the other nine Democrats onstage during the second Democratic presidential primary debate on Thursday, calling on her personal experiences of racial injustice as a black woman.“As the only black person on this stage, I would like to speak on the issue of race,” Harris said.That’s when she was attacked on Twitter by a conservative provocateur for not being an “American black.”...

Landfill Investigated Amid Search for Missing Virginia 2-Year-Old

The search is still on for a Hampton toddler who went missing Monday morning. Hampton Police focused on the city landfill on Thursday four days days after 2-year-old Noah Tomlin went missing. from Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines https://ift.tt/2XezmF...