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The Brewers blanked A's 4-0 on Wednesday. Chase Anderson pitched 6.2 scoreless innings in the win and Jonathan Villar went 2-3 with a run scored. | 1 | 99,100 | sports |
2015 CMT Awards: See the complete list of winners Oh, the awards show red carpet. A place of treachery, particularly for women, where they're asked about what they're wearing but not about the thing it is they do. In the case of the 2016 CMT Awards, where the carpet was pink, the comments coming from the hosts, both on the carpet and during the show itself, were consistently ridiculous and made me wonder if I'd actually heard correctly. 1. Katie Cook to Danica Patrick Danica Patrick is a race car driver. A race car driver is an athlete. Katie Cook seemed to be unaware of this fact when she asked Patrick how she kept in shape when the majority of her sport involves sitting down. (Cook prefaced this question by saying, "I don't mean to insult you.") Cue Patrick assuring her that she does, in fact, exercise and describing her physical regimen to Cook. Would it have been impossible to do any research about the athleticism involved in race car driving? 2. Cody Alan to Carrie Underwood CMT red carpet host Cody Alan would like everyone to know that Carrie Underwood smells like spring. (And power. Definitely power, Cody.) It was a fully creepy comment, which Underwood totally handled like a pro, having dealt with gross stuff before in excess. Alan was also very into Underwood's husband, Mike Fisher, and his hockey playing and kept asking her questions about him. (Dude, Carrie Underwood is in front of you. What are you doing?) CMT Awards: 7 female empowering moments everyone's talking about 3. Cody Alan to Kelsea Ballerini Of course, Alan asked Ballerini about her eating habits because he's contractually obligated to or something. She replied that she enjoys McDonald's on occasion, but not all the time, of course. He also asked her thoughts about the pink carpet, which she liked "because I'm a girl." 4. J.J, Watt File cohost Watt's behavior under the category of "yuck." First, there was the comment he made about all beautiful women in the room and then his comment about how he'd like to get with Pitbull's backup dancers, then his inquiry about the marital statuses of the women present, and then he put a random female audience member on his shoulders. Watt: "What? She couldn't see the stage. I'm just being a gentleman. You're not married too, are ya?" Ugh, really, dude? Cringe-y doesn't even begin to cover it. 5. Erin Andrews Cohost Andrews introduced star Luke Bryan before his performance, telling viewers that she'd been asked not to use words such as "chiseled" to describe Bryan. Right, because we wouldn't want to objectify anyone on this show. 7 sexy reasons to watch the CMT Music Awards What moments from the CMT Awards made you say "yikes"? Tell us in the comments! Before you go, check out our slideshow below! | 4 | 99,101 | lifestyle |
Colin Nathaniel Scott, 23, of Portland, Oregon, was visiting Yellowstone National Park with his sister when he fell near the Noris Basin Geyser on Tuesday. Scott stepped off a designated boardwalk, slipped and fell into a hot spring. Scotts body has not yet been recovered and authorities are said to be proceeding with caution because of the heat around the springs. Park Superintendent Dan Wenk said:" This tragic event must remind all of us to follow the regulations and stay on boardwalks when visiting Yellowstone's geyser basins," | 5 | 99,102 | news |
While Donald Trump has been trying to reframe his attacks on Judge Gonzalo Curiel -- complaining about his membership in a Latino lawyers organization, or accusing him of bearing some responsibility for the Trump U plaintiffs' law firm's six-figure speech payments to Hillary Clinton -- it turns out that his own lawyer has given to Clinton's presidential campaign, and he did so after Trump hired him. The lawyer defending Trump in the case, Daniel Petrocelli, has donated to Clinton and several Democrats over the years, Yahoo News' Mike Isikoff noted. The Center for Responsive Politics, which tracks political donations, says that in January, Petrocelli donated $2,700, the maximum amount allowable for a contribution to Hillary Clinton's presidential primary campaign. Isikoff had also reported that Petrocelli had been hired by Trump a month earlier, in December 2015. Further, Petrocelli's law firm, O'Melveny & Myers, has given nearly $20,000 to her campaign, Yahoo News reported. Trump has ranted at Curiel, told the Wall Street Journal that Curiel had "an absolute conflict" in overseeing the Trump U cases, given that he was "of Mexican heritage" and complained about his membership in a Latino lawyers association. He has also since told "Face the Nation's" John Dickerson a Muslim judge might also treat him unfairly . In response, a succession of Republicans have denounced Trump's remarks. And Sen. Mark Kirk, R-Illinois, in a tough re-election fight, even rescinded his endorsement of Trump on Tuesday. Speaker Paul Ryan called his comments the "textbook definition of a racist comment." Petrocelli has argued many high-profile cases -- he may be best known for winning a multi-million-dollar civil suit against O.J. Simpson for the deaths of Ronald Goldman and Nicole Brown Simpson, In May, Curiel ruled that Trump would go to trial in the lawsuits in November , after election day, but before the late January date that Petrocelli had requested. He has not sought Curiel's recusal in the case -- Yahoo News quoted Petrocelli as saying, "The judge is doing his job....We're not seeking to recuse the judge." To this point, Trump has not directed any attacks at his own lawyer for throwing his support to Hillary Clinton. Not that he'd have any reason to -- there's been no evidence that Petrocelli is wearing his political preferences into the courtroom. As he told the Hollywood Reporter in April, Trump "didn't hire me for my political views. He hired me for my legal skills." | 5 | 99,103 | news |
Bill Bennett, former secretary of education under President Reagan, weighs in on 'The Kelly File' | 8 | 99,104 | video |
The Astros took down the Rangers 3-1 on Wednesday. Jose Altuve hit the go-ahead two-run double in the top of the seventh inning. Texas starter Yu Darvish left the game with shoulder tightness. | 1 | 99,105 | sports |
MEMPHIS, Tennessee Dozens of FedEx jets queue up for takeoff at the airport here. Beale Street, the heart of the music district, hums with tourists. Yet the empty storefronts in Memphis' moribund downtown and the cash-advance shops strewn near its highways tell another story. It's a tale of two cities, all in one place. And it's a tale of two Americas: the one that national averages indicate has all but recovered from the Great Recession and the one lost in the statistics. The pattern is evident in cities and towns across America, from Memphis to Colorado Springs, Colorado, from Wichita to Jacksonville: The national numbers aren't capturing the experience of many typical people in typical communities. A key reason is that pay and wealth are flowing disproportionately to the rich, skewing the data used to measure economic health and producing an economy on paper that most Americans don't recognize in their own lives. That disconnect has fueled much of the frustration and anxiety that have propelled the insurgent presidential campaigns of Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders. Again and again, primary voters who were most worried about the economy told pollsters that they had cast their ballots for Trump or Sanders, according to Edison Research, which conducted the surveys on behalf of The Associated Press and television networks. Trump's candidacy, in particular, has been driven by support in some of the most economically distressed regions in the country, where jobs have been automated, eliminated, or moved to other states and countries. It's in these places that the outsider message of an unconventional candidate promising a return to the way things used to be resonates most. Mike Williams earns $22 an hour as a maintenance worker at an Owens-Corning factory, along with health care and retirement benefits. But after a recent raise, his hourly pay has only recently returned to where it was a decade ago, when he worked as a welder. "I feel like I'm going backward rather than forward," Williams, 51, said on a recent afternoon after finishing his shift. In March, Williams voted for Trump in the state's primary, which the real estate billionaire won easily. One reason he backed Trump, he said, is he feels less secure than in the past, when more manufacturing work was available. "I remember when you could quit a job today and go to work somewhere else tomorrow," Williams said. After seven years of national economic expansion to the point where the Federal Reserve is raising interest rates again the depth of such insecurity across America has caught many observers off guard. Said Carl Tannenbaum, chief economist at Northern Trust and former economist at the Federal Reserve: "The averages certainly don't tell the whole story." Consider incomes for the average U.S. household. They ticked up 0.7 percent from 2008 to 2014, after taking inflation into account. But even that scant increase reflected mainly the rise in income for the richest tenth of households, which pulled up the average. For most others, incomes actually decreased as much as 6 percent for the bottom 20 percent, at a time when the economy was mostly recovering. In Memphis, hiring resumed after the recession and the unemployment rate has declined to match the national figure of 5 percent. Yet those figures, too, obscure as much as they reveal: Many of the new jobs, in Memphis and elsewhere, are in lower-paying industries and are more likely to be part time or temporary. In Millington, a Memphis suburb where Trump held a rally in February at a military airfield, residents complain that most of the available jobs are in the fast-food chains that dot Highway 51, the main thoroughfare. The U.S. economy has added a healthy average of roughly 200,000 jobs a month since 2011. Yet most have been either high-paying or low-paying positions. By the end of 2015, the nation still had fewer middle-income jobs than it did before the recession, according to the Georgetown University Center on Education and the Workforce. That reflects what economists call the "hollowing out" of the workforce, as traditional mid-level positions such as office administrators, bookkeepers, and factory assembly-line workers are cut in recessions and never fully recover their previous levels of employment. In Memphis, jobs in the one-third lowest-paying industries, such as retail, restaurants and hotels, are the only category to have fully recovered from the recession, according to Moody's Analytics. Higher- and middle-paying jobs still trail their pre-recession levels. In the first half of the recovery, jobs grew 5.6 percent nationwide. Yet in the wealthiest one-fifth of zip codes, hiring jumped 11.2 percent, according to the Economic Innovation Group think tank. For the rest of the country, total jobs increased just 3.3 percent. "It's hard to find an average city," Tannenbaum says. The same is true for households. These data suggest that the post-World War II trend of a steadily growing middle class, lifted by broader national prosperity, is reversing. Slightly fewer than half of adults now fall in the middle-class camp, according to the Pew Research Center, a shift that followed four decades of decline. In 1971, 61 percent of households were middle class, according to Pew, which defines middle class as income between two-thirds and double the median household income. Chris Rice, 29, has worked steadily in the Memphis region for the past 10 years, all at temporary jobs. Rice most recently worked as a forklift driver for Electrolux and for CEVA Logistics, a warehouse firm. The CEVA job ended after the company lost a contract to distribute Microsoft's X-Box. Rice said he was hopeful of getting a new temp job at a plant owned by printer manufacturer Brother International. Still, "I'd love to have a permanent job," he said. "I'm tired of going from temp agency to temp agency when there's no work." ___ Contributing to this report were AP staff writers Nicholas Riccardi in Las Vegas and Adrian Sainz in Memphis. | 3 | 99,106 | finance |
Watch a fan jump into McCovey Cove so that they could grab a Brandon Belt home run ball. | 1 | 99,107 | sports |
Usually nothing good comes from shoplifting , but at least this dude getting busted for it has brought us this priceless moment. The video below shows a grocery store's staff confronting an unidentified man wearing an Ohio State University football jersey. He tries objecting to the accusations for a bit and then, when the jig is up, admits his crime and pulls a rack of ribs from his elastic-waist sweatpants. While that's pretty damn ridiculous, the attempted heist was far more ambitious. The meat bandit reveals the rest of his bounty: two packs of meat (ground beef or steaks), another pack of mystery meat, another rack of ribs, and, finally, the last rack of ribs (that we know of, at least). While you'll probably roar with laughter just watching the man pull the meat out of his pants, it's also damn hilarious listening to the videographer mutter "oh my god" while watching this scene go down and seeing the one grocery store employee trying to balance the tower of protein. According to the man confronting the pork burglar, this is the wrongdoer's third or fourth time trying to get away with a loot of meat. While we really feel for this guy in that he feels like he's in a place where he needs to steal all these groceries, it's pretty inexcusable behavior. And this type of crime is apparently fairly common. A man from Chattanooga, Tennessee, was arrested for trying to shoplift 15 pounds of meat in March, and another criminal in Akron, Ohio, was caught on camera stuffing shrimp down his pants . It's unclear if those pants ribs will now be marked down. | 5 | 99,108 | news |
Friends of a man extradited to Italy on Tuesday on people smuggling charges say police have the wrong man. Prosecutors believe Mered Medhanie, known as The General, is at the heart of the operation to smuggle migrants from Africa to Europe. An Eritrean man authorities say is Mr Mered was held in Sudan in May and flown to Rome on Tuesday. But the man's friends told the BBC there had been a case of mistaken identity and he was innocent. He was named by friends as Mered Tesfamariam. A spokesman for Britain's National Crime Agency (NCA), that was involved in the operation, told the Press Association they were "liaising with our partners". It added: "This is a complex multi-partner operation and it is too soon to speculate about these claims." An Italian police official told the BBC that he was unaware of any investigation into the identity of the suspected smuggler. The BBC understands that the Italian police still believe they have the right person. The NCA said it had tracked the suspect down to an address in Khartoum, where he was then arrested. Images of him arriving in Rome were distributed by Italian police on Wednesday. The BBC spoke to one man, Hermon Berhe, who lives in Ethiopia and said he grew up in Eritrea with the man shown in the pictures. "I don't think he has any bone in his body which can involve such kind of things," he said. "He is a loving, friendly and kind person." Another Eritrean man told the BBC's Will Ross he recently shared a house in Sudan with the man who was arrested. Meron Estefanos, a Swedish-Eritrean journalist who interviewed Mr Mered last year, told Swedish media the man in the images was not him, but was instead a 28-year-old man with the same name. "He's just a refugee who was in Khartoum, poor guy," she told Aftonbladet newspaper. Italian news agency Ansa said Mr Mered was accused of being "the leader and organiser of one of the largest criminal groups operating between central Africa and Libya". Prosecutors accuse Mr Mered of running the network alongside an Ethiopian accomplice, who is still at large. The two men are accused of buying up kidnapped migrants from other gangs and sending those migrants on barely seaworthy ships across the Mediterranean towards Europe. Known as "The General", as he styled himself on late Libyan leader Col Muammar Gaddafi, Mr Mered is also said to have driven around in a tank and boasted: "Nobody is stronger than me." The NCA says Mr Mered is thought to have arranged the transit of a boat that sank near the Italian island of Lampedusa in October 2013. At least 359 migrants died when the boat, travelling from Libya, capsized. Most were from Eritrea and Somalia. | 5 | 99,109 | news |
You would think it would be a little unnerving to see a life-sized look-alike dummy of yourself, but for Daniel Radcliffe who had several dolls made in his likeness for the film Swiss Army Man it was no big deal. "We had them on Harry Potter , so I've seen myself look weird and sort of disembodied before," Radcliffe said at a press event for the film earlier this week. "But it's not always the most dignified process having one made. In this film, there was a particular ass molding, and, you know, there is no graceful, elegant, dignified way of doing that. You just sort of have to slap it on." In the film, out July 1, Radcliffe plays Manny, a corpse who alternately serves as a companion, canteen, compass, axe, grappling hook, firestarter, and flatulent jet ski for the stranded Hank (Paul Dano). The dolls were used in scenes that would have been too risky for Radcliffe to film, and they went through a lot on set. "They had to be very, very durable," the actor said. One of the dolls stood in for Radcliffe during a scene where Manny is attacked by raccoons. "We had two raccoons," Radcliffe said. "One of them was crap, and would not do anything. The other raccoon instinctively and immediately went for the eyes. That's when I was very grateful we had the dummies." Somehow, the dolls made it through the shoot intact, and mental_floss got an up-close look at one of them, which really, truly, unnervingly looks like Radcliffe. Want to see Manny for yourself? The doll is going on tour leading up to the nationwide release of Swiss Army Man on July 1. Manny will be riding around New York City, Washington, D.C., Chicago, Denver, and Los Angeles, among other cities. He even hit up the polls to vote in the California primary: Democracy in action! Manny casts his vote in the California primary 🇺🇸 #MannyWatch #DyingForFreeHealthcare pic.twitter.com/ChRYMNikMU A24 (@A24) June 7, 2016 This isn't the only marketing campaign A24, the studio that's releasing the film, has launched to support Swiss Army Man . By texting "SOS" to 25827, you can get texts from Manny. Some simply ask how you are, others tell you how he's feeling and some will tell you how to use a digital version of the corpse on the film's official website. You can toss Manny around, manipulate his body into weird positions, and, most importantly, make him fart (among some other NSFW things). You can interact with Manny here . | 5 | 99,110 | news |
"Follow my lead and do your job." That was LeBron James' pregame message to his Cavaliers. Yes, they were without Kevin Love. Yes, they were down 2-0. But they were at home, and if they could just take care of business, we'd have a series on our hands. Right out of the gate, the King's horsemen did his bidding. A 9-0 start gave Cleveland plenty of breathing room, and that gave way to a 20-point lead in the first quarter. LeBron, though, wasn't quite holding up his end of the bargain. He didn't look like a leader in the first half. Whatever fire in his eye we might have expected with the Cavs backed up against the wall simply wasn't there. LeBron was cool and calculating, because that's who he is. He'll be the first person to acknowledge he's not Michael Jordan, after all. But in part because of LeBron's placid first half, the Warriors started to make a game of it. By halftime, that deficit was down to eight points, and it felt like a Golden State onslaught was inevitable. Instead, it was the King who went on the warpath. James ratcheted up the intensity in the second half. He threw down monster dunks. He ripped the ball away from Stephen Curry in a moment as vicious as it was perfectly poetic. And he kept the Warriors at bay. More than that, he buried them, as the Cavs came away with a 120-90 win . There will be two contrasting storylines for LeBron and Cleveland going forward you know, other than the whole Love question, which is a story for another day. On the one hand, part of James' late charge was an apparent rediscovery of his jumper. LeBron isn't the athletic marvel that he used to be, and the Warriors have done a fine job of preventing him from getting to the rim in the halfcourt. If he's knocking down jumpers, though, then everything changes. Golden State has to give him a little more respect on the perimeter, which opens up the interior and allows Cleveland to become the free-flowing offensive machine we've seen in previous rounds. Once the Cavs' offense gets going, it cuts down on the Warriors' transition opportunities. And so it goes, a feedback loop that keeps churning out results in Cleveland's favor. Yet in order for the Cavs to finally break through against the Warriors, LeBron had to play major minutes (40). So too did the rest of the Cleveland starters. Now, they'll have just one night off before Friday's Game 4. They're going to be exhausted, and that fatigue will take its toll on their shooting. The Warriors, meanwhile, probably aren't going to shoot less than 28 percent from deep again, as they did in Game 3, especially if the Cavs don't have the energy to contest shots like they did on Wednesday. But they'd better find that energy, no matter what it takes. They've hit the champ in the mouth, and they've watched the Warriors bleed. There are no excuses anymore. This Cavs team can win a championship if its King plays like the force he was in Game 3. It's up to you, LeBron. Lead the way. | 1 | 99,111 | sports |
The Nationals beat the White Sox 11-4 on Wednesday. James Shields gave up eight hits and seven runs in two innings of work in his debut. Max Scherzer tossed seven scoreless innings. | 1 | 99,112 | sports |
Russian Prime Minister Dmitriy Medvedev has whipped up a storm on Russian social media for an off-the-cuff comment he made to a Russian pensioner last month. Medvedev was caught on camera telling an elderly woman in Crimea, a region annexed by Russia from Ukraine in spring 2014, that there was "no money left" in Russia's budget when he was asked why the state pension of 8,000 Russian rubles a month (around $125 a month) was not higher given the rising cost of living. "There just isn't any money now. When we find money, we'll make the adjustment," Medvedev replied to her in a video of the incident which was uploaded onto YouTube, before adding a line of encouragement: "But be strong. I wish you all the best. Have a good day and take care!" The pensioner does not appear in the video on YouTube, which has now been watched over 3.5 million times, but can be heard heckling the prime minister about what she calls the "miniscule" pension. The comment prompted a flurry of memes on Russian social media sites with some social media users posting various pictures of everyday situations with variations on Medvedev's by-now infamous comments. One posted a tax declaration online daubed with the words: "There is no money. But stay strong!" #Kremlin chef presents #Medvedev the next year's menu, tells him to 'hang in there' pic.twitter.com/I1rTALihym Sputnik (@Sputnik_Not) May 28, 2016 Russian President Vladimir Putin came to the defense of the prime minister, however, reportedly telling news agency RIA Novosti that the remarks were taken out of context. "I have not seen what Medvedev said about it (but) you can always takesome phrase out of context. I know for sure that the government pays greatattention to the fulfillment of social obligations", he reportedly told the news agency. Despite the jokes, Russia's economy is in the doldrums and there certainly is little money for Russia to increase the state pension, particularly not in line with inflation which stood at 7.3 percent in May. Ironically, it was Russia's annexation of Crimea in March 2014 as well as its role in a pro-Russian uprising in east Ukraine that same year that largely precipitated its economic crisis. Western nations imposed sanctions on Russia for its actions which prompted capital flight and a sharp selloff in the ruble and rise in consumer prices which left many ordinary Russians struggling. Follow CNBC International on Twitter and Facebook . | 3 | 99,113 | finance |
A kitty has found her fur-ever home after being rescued from a truck engine. Andrea Fujii reports. | 8 | 99,114 | video |
Police in San Jose, Calif, announced three more arrests Wednesday in connection with violence outside of a rally last Thursday in support of Republican presidential hopeful Donald Trump, the department said. The three, two of them 16 and one 17, were arrested for assault with a deadly weapon and battery, the agency said in a statement. The arrests bring to seven the number of those detained after the incendiary rally in downtown San Jose that included fire as well as throwing of bottles and eggs. Police said they expect to make even more arrests in connection with the rally, KRON4 reported. In one incident, one of the teen suspects, a 16-year-old from San Jose, hit a rally attendee from behind with a blunt object, police said. That teen is charged with assault with a deadly weapon, a felony. In another incident, another teen suspect, a 17-year-old from San Jose, physically assaulted a rally attendee and tackled them to the ground, according to police. That teen also is charged with assault with a deadly weapon. The third teen, a 16-year-old from Milpitas, Calif., also tackled a rally attendee to the ground, police allege. That teen is charged with battery, a misdemeanor, according to police. | 5 | 99,115 | news |
Three elderly bystanders were wounded Thursday when Australian police opened fire on a man wielding a large carving knife in a busy Sydney shopping centre, authorities said. The incident unfolded at the Hornsby Organic Food Markets in the city's north with police confronting the man, reported missing from a psychiatric centre, after being alerted by staff. Witnesses said two officers asked him to drop the knife and when he failed to do so they both opened fire, with the three innocent woman, aged between 60 and 80, also being hit. Assistant Commissioner Denis Clifford defended his officers using guns rather than tasers in what he called a "life or death situation". "It will be alleged the man approached the police with the large carving knife. The officers each fired shots at the offender," he said, adding that the man, in his 20s, was wounded several times. "Unfortunately some bystanders were also injured with either bullet or fragment wounds. All up we have four people that have been injured through gunfire." Asked if it was appropriate to fire guns in a busy shopping centre, he replied: "That's alarming, but I wonder what may have happened had the police not intervened and stopped this person with the knife." All of the injured were stable in hospital with a police investigation into the shooting underway, he added. | 5 | 99,116 | news |
COOPER TOWNSHIP, Mich. They called themselves "The Chain Gang" a group of bicyclists drawn together by zest for their sport, physical fitness and love of the outdoors whose day trip in the southwestern Michigan countryside ended tragically as a pickup truck plowed into them, killing five and injuring four others. Stunned biking enthusiasts joined relatives and friends of the riders Wednesday in mourning them, leaving flowers, a commemorative "ghost bike" and a small wooden cross at the crash scene and gathering by the hundreds for a 5-mile "silent ride." "We're all part of a community and this community needs to feel safe on the roads," Sheila Wood, an organizer of the ride, told the crowd of cyclists before they took off from a brew pub in nearby Kalamazoo. Police said they had received complaints about a pickup being driven erratically and were searching for it minutes before the crash around 6:30 p.m. Tuesday on a two-lane road in Kalamazoo County's Cooper Township. The driver, a 50-year-old man who fled but was caught by police shortly afterward, remained in custody Wednesday. County prosecutor Jeffrey S. Getting said he expected a report Thursday from the sheriff's department and other agencies that would help determine whether charges would be filed. The prosecutor identified three of the bicyclists who were killed as Debra Ann Bradley, 53; Melissa Ann Fevig-Hughes, 42; and Suzanne Joan Sippel, 56, all of Augusta. The two others who died were Fred Anton "Tony" Nelson, 73, and Lorenz John "Larry" Paulik, 74, both of Kalamazoo. Three others were listed in serious condition and a fourth in fair condition at area hospitals. "There is no way to measure the grief we feel," said Renee Mitchell, president of the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club. Mark Rose, who co-founded The Chain Gang about 15 years ago, said its members weren't "hardcore," but biked regularly for the exercise, enjoyment of being with friends and the "safety in numbers." He said he dropped out several years ago to focus on running. "They were just casual cyclists who enjoyed the ride," said Rose, 58, of Galesburg, who participated in Wednesday's memorial ride wearing a shirt with a Chain Gang logo. Sister Pam Owens, pastoral associate at Saint Thomas More Catholic Student Parish, said Nelson and Paulik were congregation members who were in "great shape" and had a well-known passion for cycling. Their group was 5 miles into a planned 30-mile ride when they were struck, she said. "They were doing what they loved to do, and they were together. The family took solace in that fact," said Owens, who visited the crash site Tuesday night with the men's wives. Nelson and Paulik also were devoted parishioners. They and their spouses helped lead a program that introduced newcomers to the Catholic faith, Owens said. They frequently helped people who had money troubles; Nelson assisted them in filling out tax returns. Sippel was a science data manager at Michigan State University's Kellogg Biological Station and was married to an aquatic ecologist there, said director Kay Gross. She described Sippel as a "valued and cherished" colleague and said the husband and wife sometimes worked together on research projects. "After her family, Suzanne's passion was clearly bike riding," Gross said in an email to The Associated Press, adding that Sippel often biked to work "and on more than one occasion I saw her heading out in rain and sleet to get home." Sippel helped raise money to expand the nearby Kalamazoo River Valley Trail and lobbied to have part of it extend through university lands in the area, Gross said. An avid sportswoman, she took trips with her family that usually involved "hiking, biking, canoeing/kayaking or some outdoor adventure." The couple had planned to take a sabbatical next year in Oregon, where their son will attend college, Gross said, adding, "I cannot express how much she will be missed." As people streamed past the location of the fatal collision Wednesday, some kneeled in prayer. "Ride on, friends, on the roads of heaven," one mourner wrote on a card left behind. Bob Coffman, who said the force of the crash sent one of the victims' bicycles into his yard, placed the small wooden cross at the scene. A neighbor, Marc Laning, applied white paint to the "ghost bike" and attached it to the cross with a bungee cord, a gesture of respect to bicyclists killed by motor vehicles. Some cycling advocates said they hoped the tragedy would inspire motorists to be more tolerant. "Unfortunately, Michigan still worships the automobile and not everyone is yet comfortable with sharing the road with cyclists," said Ethan Alexander, founder of the Kalamazoo-based group Open Roads. Gov. Rick Snyder issued a statement of condolence to the victims' families and the community on Wednesday. The Kalamazoo area still is dealing with the aftermath of the random fatal shootings of six people and wounding of two others in February. Jason Dalton, 45, is charged with murder and attempted murder in that case. His attorney told a judge Monday that Dalton is expected to enter an insanity plea. "What we already know for certain is that Michiganders as a family are in mourning today as Kalamazoo struggles to understand another senseless tragedy," Snyder said. ___ Flesher reported from Traverse City. | 5 | 99,117 | news |
IONIA, Mich. A man who entered prison as a teenager in 2008 stepped out into sunshine and freedom Wednesday, eight years after a professional hit man told authorities he was responsible for the slayings. The hit man's first acknowledgement that he was involved came only about two weeks after Davontae Sanford was sent away. But prosecutors repeatedly refused to reopen the case, believing they had already put the right killer behind bars. Sanford, 23, emerged from a prison in Ionia in western Michigan. He declined to speak to reporters and quickly drove off with a brother and two lawyers for the 130-mile trip back to Detroit. A day earlier, Sanford's guilty pleas were erased by a judge at the request of prosecutors who conceded the case was compromised by flawed police work. "I feel blessed," said Sanford's mother, Taminko Sanford, who stayed behind to greet her son at home. Sanford was 14 blind in one eye and barely able to read or write when he was charged with killing four people at a drug den in his neighborhood in 2007. At 15, he pleaded guilty to second-degree murder in the midst of trial and was sentenced to a minimum of 39 years in prison. The case appeared closed and unremarkable until lawyers discovered the hit man's confession to the same so-called Runyon Street murders, along with eight other killings, just 15 days after Sanford was sent to prison. That touched off years of efforts to get the guilty pleas set aside, but prosecutors resisted at every turn until state police were asked last year to take a fresh look. The agreement to throw out the convictions doesn't mention the hit man, Vincent Smothers. Instead, prosecutor Kym Worthy said Detroit police not Sanford had drawn a diagram of the murder scene. She said that "seriously undermines" the entire case. Worthy refused to take questions from reporters until a news conference Thursday. For years, her aggressive defense of the case angered Sanford's family and supporters, especially after Smothers offered extensive details about the murders and repeatedly pledged to testify on the young man's behalf. One of Sanford's lawyers, David Moran of the Innocence Clinic at University of Michigan law school, said it can be difficult for police and prosecutors to accept that a conviction that once appeared airtight is just the opposite. "It's a human thing," he said. "There's a tremendous cost when an investigation shuts down and minds close," said Moran, whose staff and students have a long list of victories. "We do encounter tremendous resistance when we present new evidence in actual innocence cases." At the same time, he praised Worthy for finally recognizing that an "injustice had been done" in Sanford's case. Margaret Raben, former head of a Michigan association of defense lawyers, said Worthy deserves credit for asking state police to investigate, even after many years. It's "startling," she said, that Smothers confessed immediately after his arrest but police ignored the admissions. "They already had this kid," said Raben, who's not involved in the case. "I think they were afraid to ask Smothers more. ... In order for them to do the right thing, they would have had to step up and say, 'We screwed this up the first time.'" Michigan offers no financial remedy to people wrongly convicted of a crime. But Sanford can sue police over civil rights violations, which is a common practice in these types of cases, Raben said. Smothers, 35, is in prison for 52 years after pleading guilty in 2010 to eight killings. He said he was regularly hired by drug dealers to kill others in the trade but would never take on someone like Sanford as a sidekick. ___ White reported from Detroit. ___ Follow Ed White at http://twitter.com/edwhiteap | 5 | 99,118 | news |
Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi delivered an ode to U.S.-India relations to a joint session of Congress, as CNN's Sumnima Udas reports. | 5 | 99,119 | news |
The Orioles shut out the Royals 4-0 on Wednesday. Chris Tillman struck out nine over 7.1 innings and Ryan Flaherty hit a two-run double in the victory. | 1 | 99,120 | sports |
According to the U.S. Food and Drug Administration you might want to think about your decision to get a tattoo more thoroughly because there seem to be more risks than are advertised. According to Dr. Linda Katz, director of the FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Colors, reports of infections from contaminated tattoo inks and allergic reactions to inks are increasing. Not only that, but tattoo removal is a long and potentially painful process that may leave scarring. | 7 | 99,121 | health |
Klay Thompson suffered a leg injury during the first quarter of Game 3 of the NBA Finals on Wednesday, and he believes the play where he got hurt was "kinda dirty." BOX SCORE: CAVALIERS 120, WARRIORS 90 Late in the first quarter, Thompson was trying to defend Cleveland guard Kyrie Irving when he ran into a pick from Cavaliers center Timofey Mozgov. Mozgov's knee appeared to go into Thompson's thigh, injuring him. Timofey Mozgov setting screen, knee into Klay Thompson. pic.twitter.com/beiIzO3CCB ⓂarcusD (@_MarcusD_) June 9, 2016 Thompson left the game after that play but later returned. Following the Warriors' 120-90 defeat to the Cavaliers, Thompson was asked about the play where he was injured. "I re-watched it. I'm just confused why he's trying to set a screen in the middle of the key when we're both running full-speed downhill. It seemed kind of dirty to me," said Thompson. "Stick his knee out too, but that's basketball." Thompson just seemed confused about Mozgov's intent in general. "I don't get it," Thompson said of the play. "I don't know. I'm guarding Kyrie, I'm running full-speed downhill, I just don't know if he's trying to set a pick on me in the middle of the key. If it's on the perimeter, I understand, but it didn't make sense to me. Obviously it didn't feel good. I'll be alright luckily we have the day off. It's the Finals and nothing's going to keep me out of it." As he said, he has a day to rest before Game 4 on Friday. Thompson's Warriors lead the series 2-1 over Cleveland. Watch the top 5 plays from Game 3 | 1 | 99,122 | sports |
San Jose defenseman Brent Burns has a weapons-grade slap shot, the kind that can break bones. And possibly the sound barrier. Even so, there likely won't be a single guy in the Penguins' lineup for Game 5 of the Stanley Cup final tonight who would balk at blocking one of Burns' blasts. With his incisors. Hey, when a team gets to within one victory of a Stanley Cup, as the Penguins will be when they face San Jose at Consol Energy Center, no sacrifice seems too great. Even if it means parting with a few teeth. But, for a lot of players, donating blood or a body part without hesitation likely is easier than treating Game 5 as just another night at the office. Opportunities to win a Cup are rare, and, while the Penguins are intent on remaining businesslike, they know they'll be competing for a title tonight. That's why it's a challenge to approach this one as nothing more than next-game-up. "I'm not going to lie to you," winger Eric Fehr said after practice Wednesday in Cranberry. "It's not easy to think of it that way. But that's what we have to do." Most players seemed intent on sticking to their usual routines after leaving the practice facility. For some, like new fathers Evgeni Malkin and Nick Bonino, that might have involved changing a diaper or two. For right winger Phil Kessel, it meant going out to dinner with family members. Eventually, though, all had to try to get some sleep. Some insisted they didn't anticipate a problem "I can sleep pretty much any time," defenseman Brian Dumoulin said while a few conceded that, under the circumstances, things might get a bit fitful. "I'm usually a pretty good sleeper," defenseman Justin Schultz said. "But a lot's running through your mind, obviously." Left winger Chris Kunitz said coach Mike Sullivan has told his players "to not listen to all the noise," and most seem to have embraced that advice. Still, the attention this series and especially Game 5 has generated is unlike anything the Penguins experienced in the regular season. Or the first three rounds of the playoffs, for that matter. When their locker room was opened to the media Wednesday, it quickly became more clogged than the neutral zone at a vintage New Jersey game. While the Penguins haven't mimicked that Devils' strategy in the first four games of the final, they have limited the Sharks to seven goals. What's more, San Jose has not led for even one second of playing time. "That's something that's key," Kunitz said. True, but Sharks have dorsal, not docile, fins, and San Jose has done its best work in this series when it has been desperate and playing from behind. With San Jose's season a single loss from ending, the Penguins expect a furious, focused effort to send the series back to California for a Game 6 Sunday. "They're fighting for their lives," Schultz said. "It's going to be the toughest game of the year." The Penguins enter Game 5 with a little wiggle room they could lose two games and still play for a championship on home ice next Wednesday but no interest in using it. "We understand how big this game is, and it's exciting," center Matt Cullen said. "We've worked our butts off to get here. "We went through a lot to get here. We're proud of what we've done so far, but we're not there yet." Dave Molinari: Dmolinari@Post-Gazette.com and Twitter @MolinariPG. | 1 | 99,123 | sports |
Near midnight tonight, should things go the Penguins' way against the San Jose Sharks at Consol Energy Center, Sidney Crosby and Mario Lemieux will share an intimate moment with the Stanley Cup. It would be stretching the truth to say they have waited a lifetime. But it's been a long time. Go back to June 12, 2009. Max Talbot scored two goals, Marc-Andre Fleury stopped Nicklas Lidstrom from point-blank range as the final horn sounded and the Penguins won Game 7 against the Detroit Red Wings, 2-1, to rule the NHL. Crosby and Lemieux had an awesome time dancing with the Cup that night. Crosby, then 21 and the youngest captain to win an NHL championship, figured several more Cups were in his future. Lemieux, then 43 and the team owner, wished that were true but knew better. He won just two Cups in his magnificent career with the Penguins despite playing with five Hall of Famers, seven if you count Mark Recchi and Jaromir Jagr. He never felt the need to apologize. Crosby still is waiting to win his second Cup, although he's so close he almost can feel taking the precious trophy from NHL commissioner Gary Bettman. The Penguins take a 3-1 series lead against the Sharks into Game 5 tonight. A lot happened to Crosby after that magical night in 2009. Life happened. Injuries. Jaroslav Halak, Tuukka Rask and Henrik Lundqvist. More injuries. Michael Cammalleri, Claude Giroux and Carl Hagelin (you probably love him now), not to mention Jonathan Toews, Patrick Kane and Duncan Keith. Suddenly, hockey people weren't calling Crosby the best player in the world. Far from it. They called him an underachiever and said his core group of teammates Evgeni Malkin, Kris Letang and Fleury was a failure. It wasn't just mean-spirited media and disgusted fans. It was Crosby's bosses. David Morehouse. Ron Burkle. Yes, even Lemieux. Good, hard-working people were fired. Ray Shero. Dan Bylsma. Mike Johnston. Crosby and the others became known as coach-killers. That is a horrible thing to be called. Clearly, Crosby tired of it. He turned the coaching change in December from Johnston to Mike Sullivan into a fresh start. He played so well in the next four months that he became a finalist for the Hart Memorial Trophy as NHL MVP. He was the best player in the first-round playoff series against the New York Rangers, scoring the biggest goal in Game 3 on a fabulous deflection of a Phil Kessel pass. He had a quiet second-round series against Washington with just two assists but made up for it with three game-winning goals against Tampa Bay in the Eastern Conference final, including an overtime goal in Game 2 after the Penguins had lost Game 1. Crosby, now on a mission, kept it going against the Sharks. He set up Conor Sheary for a goal with a wonderful pass in Game 1. He designed Sheary's game-winning overtime goal in Game 2, winning the faceoff and pulling the puck back to Letang, who passed it to Sheary. Consol throbbed. "I call 25 faceoffs a night," Crosby said afterward, shrugging. "I got 24 wrong tonight." No amount of Crosby humility can hide the fact he is playing marvelous hockey. "It's as good as I've seen him play," Sullivan said. "It's inspiring." Sullivan has an interesting perspective on Crosby. He coached against him for years as the head coach of the Boston Bruins and an assistant with Tampa Bay, the Rangers and Vancouver. Now, he shares the same locker room with him. "I've grown more respectful and have more admiration for his care factor and his professionalism as far as how he goes about his business every day," Sullivan said. "I can tell you by watching him every day that it's not by accident he's as good as he is. He works extremely hard. I don't know that I've been around a player in all the years I've been associated with this league with a work ethic like Sid's. His fitness level off the ice and the way he trains away from the rink, he takes with the same commitment as he does when he's on the ice. The way he lives his life, everything about him is about how he can create a competitive advantage for himself." That separates Crosby from Lemieux. He won't ever be the player Lemieux was. We won't see another like Lemieux in our lifetime. But Crosby's passion for and commitment to hockey is unmatched. Teammates used to joke that Lemieux's big sacrifice for the sport was giving up fries with his cheeseburger. Any coach will tell you that, in a perfect world, his best player is his hardest worker. That's Crosby. That's why Penguins general manager Jim Rutherford called him "a terrific leader." It's easy to see now with the Penguins so close to the Cup. Crosby liked this team down the stretch of the regular season when it went 14-2, playing much of the time without Malkin and Fleury. He grew to love it after it took out the Rangers in five games and the Presidents' Trophy-winning Capitals in six. Crosby has learned what Lemieux discovered years ago. It isn't every season that a team has a chance to win the Cup. You not only need to be lucky, you can't be unlucky. So much has to go right. So much can go wrong. "You can see his hunger to win," Sullivan said of Crosby. "I know our players recognize the effort that he's putting in. You can see it in his body language. He's excited about this opportunity that we have. He's trying to do everything in his power to make sure we end up on the right side of the result." One more win … Crosby wants it for a number of reasons. For Lemieux. For his teammates. For hockey-mad Pittsburgh. For his family. And, of course, for himself. Crosby knows exactly what a second Cup will bring. It will mean matching the great Lemieux's total as a player. It will mean never being called an underachiever again. Maybe most of all, it will mean never having to say he's sorry. Ron Cook: rcook@post-gazette.com and Twitter@RonCookPG. Ron Cook can be heard on the "Cook and Poni" show weekdays from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. on 93.7 The Fan. | 1 | 99,124 | sports |
UPPER MARLBORO, Md. -- A Prince George's County, Maryland jury has found a man guilty of first-degree felony murder after the paralyzed victim identified his shooter by blinking. Multiple news outlets report that the jury found 25-year-old Jermaine Hailes guilty of first-degree murder on Tuesday in the 2010 shooting of 29-year-old Melvin Pate, who died in 2012, reports the Washington Post . Pate was left paralyzed from the chest down after the shooting. A video showed him identifying Hailes from a lineup by blinking at a photo of the shooter. Pate died before Hailes went to trial, but police had recorded the photo lineup. The Maryland Court of Appeals ruled that Pate's blink was a dying declaration and allowed prosecutors to show the video during the trial. Prosecutors believe the case is only the fourth time in U.S. history that a murder victim's nonverbal identification has been used as evidence at trial, reports the Washington Post. Hailes faces life in prison at a sentencing hearing set for Aug. 25. | 5 | 99,125 | news |
More than 16,000 personal items belonging to victims of the Holocaust were recovered after researchers discovered they had been unknowingly stored in cardboard boxes at the Polish Academy of Sciences. The belongings all previously owned by victims of the Nazi concentration camp Auschwitz-Birkenau in Poland were originally excavated near one of the camp's gas chambers and crematoriums in 1967, NBC reports . In a news release Tuesday, the Auschwitz-Birkenau State Museum described the items, including thermometers, jewelry, tobacco pipes and buttons, as a "moving personal testimony of the victims." The items were often left near gas chambers as Jews were led to their death. The museum's researchers spent several months searching for the objects, after becoming convinced that there must be more than the approximately 400 items that had previously been recovered . The investigation eventually led to a building at the Polish Academy. "I had considered the discovery of such a huge collection in whole after nearly half a century as unlikely as finding the treasure of the lost Galleon. I can only try to imagine why the lost objects were deposited in these boxes just after digging up," museum director Piotr M.A. Cywiński said in a news release. The items were transported to the museum on June 3, and will be documented and preserved. | 5 | 99,126 | news |
Facing flagging sales of the Chevrolet Silverado pickup truck and other models, General Motors Co. launched a broadside against Ford Motor Co. that questions the durability of its crosstown rival's most profitable vehicle. In a marketing blitz Wednesday, Chevrolet said lab tests and other demonstrations show the Silverado's high-strength steel bed better withstands damage than the stamped aluminum bed in Ford's F-150 pickup truck. Ads show loaders dumping concrete blocks in both beds, punching holes in the F-150's bed while only scratching and denting the high-strength steel bed of the Silverado. The demonstrations were done without bed liners protecting the trucks. "When you're the market leader for 39 years, competitors sometimes try to take shots at you with marketing stunts," a Ford spokesman said. He added that the F-150's "high-strength, military grade, aluminum alloy cargo box" provides leading strength, durability and corrosion resistance, among other benefits. The marketing offensive, rolling out in print and television ads, marked a significant escalation in the perennial truck battle among Detroit's auto makers. Ford's F-series trucks are the U.S.'s best-sellers, with more than 750,000 delivered annually in recent years. Sales of F-series trucks are up more than 7% through May, outpacing flat Silverado sales. GM said it fares well in retail sales directly to consumers. GM and Ford often take aim at one another. But the Chevrolet campaign ratcheted up the industry's rhetoric ahead of the crucial summer selling months, unequivocally taking shots at the F-150's strength and quality in lab tests and demonstrations in front of prospective truck buyers. "It's an all-out war," said Dave Sullivan, an analyst at research firm AutoPacific Inc. "There is nothing that appears to be off-limits now." Whether consumers will respond remains to be seen. Car shoppers often home in on assessments from Kelley Blue Book and other third-party researchers rather than advertisements when making buying decisions. GM officials said they didn't have third-party research showing that the steel bed is more durable than aluminum, but pointed to other testing showing aluminum is more costly to fix. Ford rolled out F-150 trucks with aluminum at the end of 2014, attracted by the lighter metal's ability to, among other things, improve fuel economy and handling. The Silverado uses aluminum in some truck parts, but not the bed. GM executives on Wednesday insisted the Silverado's bed is superior for hauling tools and other materials. GM's salvo comes amid significant market-share declines as the popularity of high-margin pickup trucks and sport-utility vehicles surges, spurred by cheap gasoline and low interest rates. The company's share of the U.S. new-vehicle market in May dropped to 15.7% from 17.9% a year earlier. The campaign also comes just months before Ford launches an aluminum F-250, a heavy-duty version of the profitable F-series truck. GM has recently ceded ground to Ford in the competitive race for commercial and government fleet sales. GM attributes some of its market-share losses to a deliberate pullback in less profitable rental-car sales. But the result is a fierce battle with rivals over pickup trucks and SUVs. GM Chief Executive Mary Barra on Tuesday said before the company's annual shareholders meeting that the auto maker remains focused on profitable retail sales and reducing rental deliveries regardless of the effect on market share. She said the strategy would better position GM for a potential economic downturn. But doing so could curb GM's revenue and profits in the short term. Investors, meanwhile, are cool to GM's stock despite record profits and sales, with shares trading below the auto maker's 2010 initial public offering price of $33. Investors are concerned that car sales, which reached a record 17.5 million in 2015, have peaked, and fears over the timing and severity of another downturn have become ingrained. Mr. Sullivan, the AutoPacific analyst, said the GM truck demonstrations weren't overly illuminating. "It's just one of the characteristics of aluminum," he said of the F-150 damage GM demonstrated. "Having a bed liner is a must." GM said it dropped 55 landscaping blocks weighing a total of 825 pounds into the beds of both trucks from 5 feet above the bed floor. It also pushed a steel toolbox off the side rail of each truck, to test if the toolbox dented the floor of the beds. GM still sells the most pickup trucks in the industry, in large part thanks to its decision to re-enter the midsize truck market. GM also benefits from offering two full-size pickups: the Silverado and the GMC Sierra, which combined accounted for 39% of the retail truck market in the first quarter of 2016, compared with 32.3% for Ford, according to R.L. Polk & Co. registration data. The Silverado's share during the same period was 27.3%. Chevrolet truck marketing chief Monte Doran said the marketing campaign wasn't meant to attack Ford, but rather highlight the Silverado's advantages. A GM spokesman said engineers discovered the testing differences months ago, and the results were replicated for the ad campaign. He added the campaign aims to lure shoppers away from Dodge and Toyota Motor Corp. rather than try to persuade loyal, entrenched Ford truck owners. | 3 | 99,127 | finance |
'Downton Abbey' Who knew there could be such scandal in this Upstairs/Downstairs world? The beloved British series, which aired for five seasons on PBS, ended in spring of 2016. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > PBS.org: Select episodes available with subscription 'The Good Wife' Fans didn't love the series finale, which aired in May 2016, but that shouldn't detract from what may go down as one of the best legal dramas on television. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > CBS.com: Select free episodes, or watch all with subscription > Hulu.com: Seasons 1 - 6 available with subscription > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 'Royal Pains' The long-running USA Network series about a concierge doctor for the rich announced, with a rap song, that the upcoming eighth season would be its last. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Netflix: Seasons 1 - 7 free with subscription 'Mike & Molly' Melissa McCarthy's film career couldn't be hotter, but we'll still miss this romantic comedy about two larger than life personalities falling in love. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > CBS.com: Select free episodes or 8 free with subscription > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 'Rizzoli & Isles' The female-drive crime procedural starring Sasha Alexander and Angie Harmon will premiere its final season later this summer. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Hulu.com: 74 episodes available with subscription > TNTdrama.com: Select episodes free 'Mr. Selfridge' Masterpiece on PBS found itself another popular show, with "Mr. Selfridge," starring Jeremy Piven. The series will end this year after four seasons Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > PBS.org: Select episodes available for limited time, or more options with subscription 'Person of Interest' The crime procedural with a science-fiction twist lasted five seasons. The series finale will air June 21, 2016. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > CBS.com: Select episodes free > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Netflix - Free with subscription 'Manhattan' The WGN series that centered around the government project that developed the first nuclear weapons lasted two seasons. Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Hulu.com: Available with subscription 'Castle' After eight seasons, the unlikely duo of mystery writer and detective said farewell in a surprise cancellation this spring. Could the drama that unfolded behind-the-scenes have been a factor? Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: Seasons 1 - 8, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Hulu.com: Available with subscription > ABC.com: Select episodes free 'Nashville' The country music drama that pitted an aging queen against a rising star had its share of love, power and money. The fan favorite was recently canceled after four seasons, though news has begun to surface that CMT may revive the series . Watch It Now by selecting a provider below: > Microsoft Movies & TV: All seasons, episodes starting at $1.99 > Amazon Video: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Google Play: Episodes starting at $1.99 > Hulu.com: Full series available with subscription > ABC.com: Select episodes free | 6 | 99,128 | entertainment |
The Hollywood Reporter ran a long feature this week on Bill Simmons and his recent projects, including the launch of his new website, his podcast network, and his new show on HBO. Much of the interview, however, was spent discussing everything that went wrong at his former employer, ESPN. Simmons spoke at length about his departure from the company, the deterioration of the relationship with ESPN president John Skipper, and the shuttering of Grantland after his exit. He also said this, about ESPN: "Who would work there that you respect right now?" When saying that, Simmons apparently forgot that several of his former Grantland employees still work at ESPN, as well as his colleagues at NBA Countdown , his former podcast guests, editors, friends, etc. On Wednesday afternoon, Simmons issued an apology for the quote on his Instagram. A photo posted by Bill Simmons (@sptguy33) on Jun 8, 2016 at 12:03pm PDT It reads: Quick note from me ... The Hollywood Reporter had a well-done story about me today ... I feel terrible that one particular quote came out in a way that didn't portray how I actually feel about the dozens of people that passed through my life when I worked there (many of whom are still there). It's 100 percent my fault - I'm sure I was trying to make some larger point and screwed it up because I suck at giving interviews. But my favorite memory of ESPN will always be all the great and talented people that passed through my life: people like Jalen Rose, David Jacoby, Doug Collins, Zach Lowe, Bill Barnwell, Mike Wilbon, Tony Kornheiser, Wright Thompson, Rachel Nichols, Jay Bilas, Matt Berry, Dan LeBatard, Jon Weiner, Max Kellerman, Rece Davis, Doris Burke, Scott Van Pelt, Michelle Beadle, Ryen Russillo, Shelley Smith, Matt Berry, and Jalen and Jacoby a second time, as well as a few terrific behind the scenes people who helped me reach my potential there (Rydholm, Libby, Wildes, Kelliher, Connor, RKing, etc.) They meant a lot to me and still do. So today made me feel bad. My apologies for being a jackass. That's all. | 1 | 99,129 | sports |
A large sinkhole closed down part of the Canadian capital on Wednesday and forced the evacuation of businesses a few blocks from the national parliament, three weeks before Ottawa is due to host a summit of the leaders of Canada, Mexico and the United States. The sinkhole formed on a normally busy downtown street in an area that has been under construction for Ottawa's new light-rail transit (LRT) system. City officials said the cause of the sinkhole was not yet known but earlier gas and water leaks have been contained. "It's premature at this point to make the connection to LRT, although that could very well be the possibility," Mayor Jim Watson told a news conference. Officials said there were no reports of injuries or missing people. The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation showed footage of a van parked on the side of the road falling into the sinkhole. Nearby buildings that were evacuated remained closed, including the Rideau Centre shopping mall, which is owned by Cadillac Fairview, a unit of the Ontario Teachers' Pension Plan. Buses in the area were being rerouted, and officials told Ottawans to expect travel delays on Wednesday and Thursday morning. It was the second sinkhole in downtown Ottawa in as many years. "If you look back in the last year, there was probably a major sinkhole in every city, at least once a week somewhere in North America or around the world that's on the nightly news, and we're one more," Watson said. The sinkhole comes ahead of the June 29 "Three Amigos" summit with Mexican President Enrique Pena Nieto, U.S. President Barack Obama and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau. (Reporting by Leah Schnurr; Editing by Phil Berlowitz and Will Dunham) | 5 | 99,130 | news |
(Bloomberg) -- Presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald Trump distanced himself from his own fundraising estimate of $1 billion, refusing to commit to collecting even half that amount, and saying his campaign didn't need much money to win the White House. Trump, who has held just two major fundraising events since agreeing three weeks ago to help the party raise cash, said he would rely instead more on his own star power as a former reality-TV personality to earn free media, and has no specific goals for how much money his campaign needs. "There's no reason to raise that," Trump said about raising $1 billion. "I just don't think I need nearly as much money as other people need because I get so much publicity. I get so many invitations to be on television. I get so many interviews, if I want them." In an extended interview inside his Trump Tower office on Wednesday his first after the final day of Republican nomination contests Trump said he has narrowed his running-mate search to four or five politicians from within the party's establishment, including several former campaign rivals. Trump also spoke at length about his controversial real-estate program, Trump University, despite a lengthy statement a day earlier in which he said he did "not intend to comment on this matter any further." He continued to insist that he's been treated unfairly in the case, and pointed to positive reviews of the school. "Another said, 'I went to Harvard and this was better,'" Trump said. He declined say whether he agreed or disagreed with that assessment, adding, "The experience was very good for a lot of people." But, unlike previous interviews on the subject, he didn't turn to personal attacks against federal judge Gonzalo Curiel. Trump provoked a massive backlash from Republicans when he said that Curiel had an inherent conflict of interest in presiding over the case because of his Mexican heritage. Curiel was born in Indiana. "It's not a big case and they don't care about it," Trump said about voters. "Nobody cares. We want to get on to where the economy is going and everything else." In contrast to the loud and outrageous performance Trump delivers at his public rallies, he was engaging and even made at attempt at humility when a reporter suggested he had out-negotiated House Speaker Paul Ryan to win the Wisconsin Republican's endorsement. "I didn't out-negotiate him," Trump said. "He is a very good guy. I think Paul and I will deal on certain issues." But Trump's brashness was on display, too, as he responded to a Bloomberg Politics article on Monday about a chaotic private phone call in which he ordered about three dozen of his most visible supporters to defend his attacks on Curiel by questioning the judge's credibility and impugning reporters as racists. "I started that call by saying 'I would imagine that someone from the press is on this call in some form," Trump said on Wednesday. "It's not like somebody got me by surprise. I'm a big boy. … It wasn't like a sneak attack." The call showed the extraordinary role Trump has taken in his campaign, often acting as his own political strategist, communications adviser and even scheduler. During the interview on Wednesday in his office, he said he would give a speech on Monday to attack Hillary Clinton, the presumptive Democratic nominee. The event planning then played out in front of reporters. "I don't even know where yet. I think we are gonna do it in Washington at the club," Trump said about delivering the speech at Trump National Golf Course in suburban Virginia. "Let's do it at the club," he said, turning to Hope Hicks, his top press aide. "I wouldn't mind doing it on the Potomac." "I almost would love to do it right at the flag," Trump said. "I love that," Hicks told him. "But it would depend on the weather and stuff," Trump added. Trump's most consequential decision between now and the Republican National Convention that starts July in Cleveland is selecting his running mate. Amid all the nervousness from Republican political veterans that his speeches are too spontaneous, he vowed to show discipline in the announcement of his vice-presidential pick. The campaign has privately discussed making an announcement as soon as this month to deflect from the controversy surrounding Trump University, and some advisers have worried that Trump may decide on his own to post the announcement on Twitter one night with little warning. "I'd like to save it, give it the old fashioned way, right?" Trump said about keeping the announcement until the convention. Trump said he'll probably choose one of four or five politicians, and that his short list includes some vanquished rivals who have dropped out of the 2016 presidential race. He is considering at least one ex-rival who has so far refused to endorse him, but who will "come over to my side," he predicted. Trump refused to name names, but former rivals who have been floated as potential running mates include Ohio Governor John Kasich, Texas Senator Ted Cruz and New Jersey Governor Chris Christie. Two veep finalists are respected military officials, but he said he's less likely to end up choosing one of them "because of the fact that I think I'm going to do very well on national security." Trump said one example of his prowess in foreign policy is the fact that North Atlantic Treaty Organization created a terrorism post after he suggested it during a cable television interview in March. The Wall Street Journal reported on Friday that NATO is creating a powerful new intelligence post, "amid growing criticism of the alliance's failure to focus more resources on terrorism," including from Trump. "It's all because of me," Trump said in the interview. "In all fairness, you know, it's not my life," Trump said about foreign policy and national security. "But I know about NATO. It's obsolete. And it doesn't cover terrorism." Trump also said he probably wouldn't pick a business executive as his running mate, and flatly ruled out anyone with Wall Street experience. "No, no, I don't think so," Trump said. "I don't need that type of ability. I have that ability, better than they have." The advantage of picking a running mate with political experience is that they've been largely vetted by voters and the media, so it's unlikely anyone will "find out that they were doing terrible, terrible things with their life," Trump said. His running mate won't be former Texas Governor Rick Perry, but Trump would like to see him in his administration. "I like him," Trump said about Perry. "I'd like to get him involved in some capacity at a high level. Because I think he's very good. I think he's very very good. He's also very good on the border," Trump said. Business leaders will be tapped to handle other matters in his administration, including trade, he said. "We'll have some of the greatest dealers in the world, because we haven't that," Trump said. "We're going to use our good business people." Asked if he'd consider former House Speaker Newt Gingrich as chief of staff, Trump said: "Newt is a very talented guy. I don't want to comment on what I'd consider him for. But Newt is a very talented guy, and great communication skills." To contact the authors of this story: Michael C. Bender in Washington at mbender10@bloomberg.net, Jennifer Jacobs in Washington at jjacobs68@bloomberg.net. To contact the editor responsible for this story: Mike Nizza at mnizza3@bloomberg.net. ©2016 Bloomberg L.P. | 5 | 99,131 | news |
If a party could declare moral bankruptcy, today's Republican Party would be in Chapter 11. This party needs to just shut itself down and start over now. Seriously, someone please start a New Republican Party! America needs a healthy two-party system. America needs a healthy center-right party to ensure that the Democrats remain a healthy center-left party. America needs a center-right party ready to offer market-based solutions to issues like climate change. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense gun laws. America needs a center-right party that will support common-sense fiscal policy. America needs a center-right party to support both free trade and aid to workers impacted by it. America needs a center-right party that appreciates how much more complicated foreign policy is today, when you have to manage weak and collapsing nations, not just muscle strong ones. Sign Up For NYT Now's Morning Briefing Newsletter But this Republican Party is none of those things. Today's G.O.P. is to governing what Trump University is to education an ethically challenged enterprise that enriches and perpetuates itself by shedding all pretense of standing for real principles, or a truly relevant value proposition, and instead plays on the ignorance and fears of the public. It is just an empty shell, selling pieces of itself to the highest bidders, policy by policy a little to the Tea Party over here, a little to Big Oil over there, a little to the gun lobby, to antitax zealots, to climate-change deniers. And before you know it, the party stands for an incoherent mess of ideas unrelated to any theory of where the world is going or how America actually becomes great again in the 21st century. It becomes instead a coalition of men and women who sell pieces of their brand to whoever can most energize their base in order for them to get re-elected in order for them to sell more pieces of their brand in order to get re-elected. And we know just how little they are attached to any principles, because today's Republican Party's elders have told us so by (with a few notable exceptions) being so willing to throw their support behind a presidential candidate whom they know is utterly ignorant of policy, has done no homework, has engaged in racist attacks on a sitting judge, has mocked a disabled reporter, has impugned an entire religious community, and has tossed off ignorant proposals for walls, for letting allies go it alone and go nuclear and for overturning trade treaties, rules of war and nuclear agreements in ways that would be wildly destabilizing if he took office. Despite that, all top G.O.P. leaders say they will still support Donald Trump even if he's dabbled in a "textbook definition" of racism, as House Speaker Paul Ryan described it because he will sign off on their agenda and can do only limited damage given our checks and balances. Really? Mr. Speaker, your agenda is a mess, Trump will pay even less attention to you if he is president and, as Senator Lindsey Graham rightly put it, there has to be a time "when the love of country will trump hatred of Hillary." Will it ever be that time with this version of the G.O.P.? Et tu, John McCain? You didn't break under torture from the North Vietnamese, but your hunger for re-election is so great that you don't dare raise your voice against Trump? I hope you lose. You deserve to. Marco Rubio? You called Trump "a con man," he insults your very being and you still endorse him? Good riddance. Chris Christie, have you not an ounce of self-respect? You're serving as the valet to a man who claimed, falsely, that on 9/11, in Jersey City, home to many Arab-Americans, "thousands and thousands of people were cheering as that building was coming down." Christie is backing a man who made up a baldfaced lie about residents of his own state so that maybe he can be his vice president. Contemptible. This is exactly why so many Republican voters opted for Trump in the first place. They intuited that the only thing these G.O.P. politicians were interested in was holding onto their seats in office and they were right. It made voters so utterly cynical that many figured, Why not inflict Trump on them? It's all just a con game anyway. And at least Trump sticks it to all of those politically correct liberals. And anyway, governing doesn't matter only attitude. And who taught them that? But it does matter. I know so many thoughtful conservatives who know it matters. One of them has got to start the N.R.P. New Republican Party a center-right party liberated from all the Trump birthers, the Sarah Palins, the Grover Norquists, the Sean Hannitys, the Rush Limbaughs, the gun lobby, the oil lobby and every other narrow-interest group, a party that redefines a principled conservatism. Raise your money for it on the internet. If Bernie Sanders can, you can. This is such a pivotal moment; the world we shaped after W.W. II is going wobbly. This is a time for America to be at its best, defending its best values, which are now under assault in so many places pluralism, immigration, democracy, trade, the rule of law and the virtue of open societies. Trump will never be a credible messenger, or a messenger at all, for those values. A New Republican Party can be. If you build it, they will come. I invite you to follow me on Twitter . Follow The New York Times Opinion section on Facebook and Twitter , and sign up for the Opinion Today newsletter . | 5 | 99,132 | news |
An unfamiliar house guest snuck into a family's home in London and settled inside their dishwasher. Dr. Simon Hayes, a veterinarian for the Village Vet London practice in Winchmore Hill, began to load dishes one evening when he noticed a fox cub staring back at him. "It was bizarre," Dr. Hayes told InsideEdition.com. "I left the door open that night and the little guy snuck inside and stuffed himself between the trolleys in the dishwasher." The veterinarian's two cats were also curious about the adorable intruder . "The cat wanted to see what was going on. He ran away when the cub's head peaked out," said Dr. Hayes. "The dog just ignored it." His children even tried to befriend the 3-month-old fox but quickly learned that it was time for the cub to be set free. "I could hear the mother calling for the cub," Dr. Hayes said. "I tried to move the trolley out of the way for the fox to make its way out." According to Dr. Hayes, the cub was healthy with no visible bruises. There were no signs of aggression but he sensed some fear and agitation. "It was beginning to become a little snappy so I grabbed a broomstick to help him out a little," said Dr. Hayes. "Once I moved the trolley out of the way, he ran right out." The small cub was soon reunited with his mother and several siblings in a den located in Dr. Hayes' backyard. "I lived here nine years and never seen anything like it," said Dr. Hayes. "It's not every day you find a cub in your dishwasher at 10 p.m.!" | 5 | 99,133 | news |
Rebellion is sometimes a part of growing up, but for one disrespecting teen, a grounding and limited privileges just weren't enough to straighten him out. Allan Gieger from Jacksonville, Fla., sold his son's SUV on Craigslist to teach him a lesson. According to Gieger, not only was his son being disrespectful, he was smoking weed and acting like a thug. "I've been having some issues with my son over the past year," said Gieger to CNN. "I don't want to see him struggle the way I did." Gieger originally bought the 1998 Ford Explorer for his son on his 16th birthday so he could drive himself to school and work, but his son used his new car for other things. The younger Gieger would smoke pot, take his friends for rides, and generally didn't appreciate what his parents had given him. The ad embarrassingly calls out the son's behavior as it describes the condition of the SUV, shaming the teen for neglecting its upkeep in favor of buying more marijuana. The father makes it very clear that he doesn't believe his son deserves this car, and even offered to take $250 off the asking price if the buyer was local so that his son could see his former ride driving around town. The ad was only on Craigslist for two hours before the Explorer sold, and while Gieger's son is upset that the SUV is gone, it definitely had an impact on him. Gieger told CNN that "It's been an eye-opening experience. He's started talking to me about helping him reach his new set of goals." Do you agree with what this father did? Tell us in the comments below. Source: Craigslist, CNN Follow MSN Autos on Facebook | 9 | 99,134 | autos |
Adrian Flux, an insurance company in the U.K., has launched what it calls a "driverless car insurance policy" that may shed light on how autonomous cars are covered in the future. "We understand this driverless policy to be the first of its kind in the U.K. and possibly the world," Gerry Bucke, general manager of Adrian Flux, said in a press release. The company describes it as a typical insurance policy with a few extras. On its website, Adrian Flux says the driverless car policy is intended for drivers who have or are thinking of buying a car with autonomous features. The plan covers everything from getting your car hacked to an operating system failure and satellite outage affecting the navigation system. Drivers are also covered for loss or damage caused by a failure to manually override the autonomous system in the event of a mechanical failure. Adrian Flux also attempts to answer the most pressing question affecting insurance and autonomous cars: who is liable in the event of an accident? It depends on the condition of the car, the driver's level of awareness, road conditions, and other vehicles involved, the company says. Customers may not bear any responsibility if the driverless technology has failed. Drivers are on the hook for installing all necessary software on their vehicles, although they'll be covered if something happens during the first 24 hours of being notified of the update. It's unclear how much the policy would cost different drivers, although they are likely to see savings. "We already provide discounts for cars fitted with assistive technology such as autonomous braking as it has been proved to reduce accidents, and therefore claims. This is a natural continuation of the work that's already gone into this area," Bucke said. Adrian Flux says the policy will change as autonomous vehicles evolve. Fully autonomous vehicles aren't expected on the road sooner than 2020. Source: Adrian Flux via The Guardian | 9 | 99,135 | autos |
Israeli police say three people were killed and several wounded when at least two gunmen opened fire in central Tel Aviv. (June 8) | 5 | 99,136 | news |
No car is perhaps more emblematic of Volkswagen's enigmatic relationship with America than the Jetta. The U.S. boasts one of the most competitive auto markets in the world, yet Wolfsburg has long been content to offer Americans a small sedan engineered to be merely acceptable for undiscerning consumers. Although closely related to the Golf, the Jetta has routinely lagged behind VW's icon car in terms of technology and refinement. The pattern continues with 2016 VW Jetta 1.4T SE. While the brilliant seventh-generation Golf, our 2015 COTY, uses Volkswagen's sophisticated and refined MQB architecture, the Jetta 1.4T SE still rolls on the PQ35 platform that debuted on the fifth-generation Golf more than a decade ago. But here's the thing: The Jetta outsells the Golf two-to-one in the U.S. To the Germans that single data point suggests Americans don't want a state-of-the-art small car. What makes the 2016 Jetta 1.4T SE interesting is that under the hood is a state-of-the-art engine. The 150-hp, 1.4-liter, twin-cam, 16-valve, turbocharged fou-cylinder is a member of the EA211 engine family developed for the highly flexible MQB architecture, and it's the new base engine for the Jetta lineup, slotting in under the 170-hp, 1.8-liter and 210-hp, 2.0-liter fours, both of which are also turbocharged. Ironically, the 1.4-liter engine is also used in the range-topping Jetta Hybrid. With those 150 horses arriving at 5,000 rpm and 184 lb-ft of torque from just 1,400 rpm, the 1.4-liter EA211 delivers an impressive ahem boost over the 115 hp at 5,200 rpm and 125 lb-ft at 4,000 rpm delivered by the stolid, ancient eight-valve, 2.0-liter, naturally aspirated four that was previously the Jetta's entry-level powerplant. And it gives the 1.4T SE near identical performance to Jettas once powered by the unloved and now discontinued 170-hp, 2.5-liter, naturally aspirated five-cylinder engine. The 0-60 sprint takes 8.4 seconds, with the quarter mile dispatched in 16.3 seconds at 86.2 mph. Like most small turbocharged powerplants, though, you get either eco or boost, and never the two at the same time. The Jetta 1.4T SE delivered an impressive 41.5 mpg on the highway during our Real MPG testing, comfortably besting the 39 mpg VW claims the car makes on the EPA cycle. Torque and tall gearing are the secret; at 60 mph in top gear, the little engine's turning just 1,800 rpm and right in the thick of the torque curve. On the twisties and around town, the slick DSG transmission does a great job of surfing the torque to deliver responsive performance feel. In terms of driver appeal, this is one of the best entry-level powertrain combinations in the small sedan segment. The Jetta 1.4T SE's Achilles heel, however, is disappointing city mileage. The 23.4 mpg recorded on the Real MPG city section is not only well short of the claimed 28 mpg for the EPA city cycle but also 23 percent worse than the mileage achieved by Honda Civic and Toyota Corolla in our testing. So despite being a fuel-sipper on the highway, the Jetta's Real MPG combined fuel economy number is 29.1 mpg, compared with 34.4 mpg for the Civic and 32.0 mpg for the Corolla. Even Chevy's new Cruze, which is also powered by a 1.4-liter, turbocharged four, manages 31.9 mpg combined over the Real MPG test cycle. The Jetta 1.4T SE stumbles on the one thing most buyers would expect it to do well. With little else changed since the Jetta's last redesign, the rest of the car is familiar fare, which means a mixture of good and average. There's a lot of transmitted road noise, and the ride quality could use a little more plushness at lower speeds, but even though the PQ35 platform hardware is now well into middle age, the chassis is nevertheless fundamentally composed and decently responsive with the nicest, most coherent steering of any mainstream small sedan in America. The exterior sheetmetal lacks the tortured surfaces and twisted lines that these days are often passed off as visual excitement or surface entertainment and so is seen by some as boring. But it's easy to mistake conservative for dull. The Jetta is a crisply tailored, beautifully surfaced, decently proportioned car that will still look good 10 years from now. Similarly, the interior design is also quietly sophisticated. It just doesn't feel it, with too much obvious hard plastic and not enough surprise and delight. No vents for the rear seat passengers? Really? That's a pity because in packaging terms the rear seat is very good. And, of course the trunk is massive. The Jetta sells because it's cheap, and Americans love a bargain. A bare-bones 1.4T starts at less than $19,000 including destination and delivers a reasonable car for the money. The 1.4T SE with the Connectivity package comes with 16-inch alloy wheels, a sunroof, a rearview camera, heated front seats, and VW's Car-Net App-Connect system, which allows it to run apps off your smartphone, and at just over $23,000, it's the most expensive of the 1.4-liter-powered Jettas. The Jetta is due to move on to the MQB architecture for the 2018 model year. It'll still be an affordable, conservatively styled sedan with roomy rear seats and a massive trunk, a formula that's appealed to generations of first-time new-car buyers in America. But maybe this time VW will offer Americans a Jetta they want to buy because it's great, not just because it's cheap. 2016 Volkswagen Jetta SE (1.4T) BASE PRICE $19,815 PRICE AS TESTED $23,145 VEHICLE LAYOUT Front-engine, FWD, 5-pass, 4-door sedan ENGINE 1.4L/150-hp/184-lb-ft turbo DOHC 16-valve I-4 TRANSMISSION 6-speed automatic CURB WEIGHT (F/R DIST) 3,058 lb (59/41%) WHEELBASE 104.4 in LENGTH x WIDTH x HEIGHT 183.3 x 70.0 x 57.2 in 0-60 MPH 8.4 sec QUARTER MILE 16.3 sec @ 86.2 mph BRAKING, 60-0 MPH 123 ft LATERAL ACCELERATION 0.81 g (avg) MT FIGURE EIGHT 27.3 sec @ 0.63 g (avg) EPA CITY/HWY/COMB FUEL ECON 28/39/32 mpg ENERGY CONS., CITY/HWY 120/86 kW-hrs/100 miles CO2 EMISSIONS, COMB 0.60 lb/mile Follow MSN Autos on Facebook | 9 | 99,137 | autos |
I recently stayed at a friend's place during a vacation, and she was amused by how long my evening skin-care regimen took. Not only do I wash my face with a cleanser, but I remove my makeup with a wipe, then follow up with a chorus line of lotions and potions to keep my skin looking A+. When I woke up the next morning and realized she was still wearing her makeup from the night before, I understood why she had been laughing. She, like a ton of other women, doesn't always wash her face before bed. And the insane thing is that she knows it's bad for her skin . She just shrugs her shoulders and moves on. It's no wonder that so many women are skipping their evening cleansing. Celebrities like Kim Kardashian have been open about their nocturnal makeup-wearing habits. But we're here to reiterate that even if you have a crystal-clear complexion, failing to properly cleanse before you snooze is not just bad for your skin it's horrible. "[Sleeping with makeup on] clogs your pores, and that buildup ultimately prevents other beauty products from penetrating the skin," says dermatologist Mona Gohara, MD . So even if you're layering a fancy night cream over your old makeup to assuage your non-cleansing guilt, you're not even getting the benefits of said cream. Dr. Gohara says: "It also precludes the skin's natural exfoliation process. We shed 50 million skin cells a day. If there's makeup on, they won't be liberated as freely, resulting in a gray, lackluster appearance." Makeup also traps pollutants on your skin, compromising the integrity of the skin barrier, which "leads to a higher likelihood of infection, irritation, and overall dullness," Dr. Gohara says. It's basically like putting on a mask that guarantees a grayish skin tone, inflammation, and decreased skin function. Is that truly worth the extra three minutes of sleep you get? But if your inner lazy girl is still willing to swap skin health for snoozing, we're pulling out all the stops. We've broken down exactly what happens when you don't properly remove all your makeup. From nasty styes to scaly skin, see what ailments could be in your future. And, please, for the love of collagen wash your damn face! Eye Makeup Leaving anything on your eyes is asking for a stye especially if we're talking shimmery, sparkling shadows. But mascara is also a risk. "The wet, moist environment inside of the tube is the perfect breeding ground for bacteria," Dr. Gohara says. "The longer any eye makeup stays in contact with the eyes, the higher your risk of infection." She suggests La Roche-Posay's Micellar Water to take off eye makeup in a snap. La Roche-Posay Physiological Micellar Solution, $16.79, available at Drugstore.com . Lipstick I know what you're thinking: How bad can leaving on your lipstick be? (And what formula is the girl using who has it on at the end of the night?) But according to Dr. Gohara, it's a fast track to wrinkly-looking lips. "Old lipstick can dry out the lips, accentuating fine lines and cracks," she explains. Plus, it makes the next day's application go on cakey and craggy. Try a gel cleanser like this one from Honest Beauty to remove even the darkest lip pigments. Honest Beauty Refreshingly Clean Gel Cleanser, $18, available at Ulta Beauty . Base Makeup The worst thing you could do, according to Dr. Gohara, is not remove your foundation. (Informal word-of-mouth studies also confirm it's the thing you're most likely to do.) In the short term, you're clogging your pores. But in the long term, the powdery, greasy buildup can trigger skin conditions like rosacea or eczema. And because old foundation also keeps other good products, like retinols and acne creams from penetrating, you're actually hurting your skin two-fold. So...don't do it, okay? The easiest way to remove base makeup is with wipes. One or two should do the trick. Just make sure to follow up with a regular cleanser wipes leave behind residue. Clean & Clear Makeup Dissolving Facial Cleansing Wipes, $4.99, available at Target . Fake Eyelashes If you wear false lashes on a regular basis, you may be tempted to leave them on while you snooze. But Dr. Gohara warns that over time, the tugging can weaken your natural lashline, causing you to lose your real lashes more readily. "The glue can also act as an irritant, causing an itchy, red rash," she adds. An oil-free eye-makeup remover will dissolve the glue in a snap, making it easier to remove the lashes. Lancôme Bi-Facil Double-Action Eye Makeup Remover, $30, available at Lancôme . Like this post? There's more. Get tons of beauty tips, tutorials, and news on the Refinery29 Beauty Facebook page . Like us on Facebook we'll see you there! | 4 | 99,138 | lifestyle |
Cristiano Ronaldo and Ricardo Quaresma both scored twice as Portugal wrapped up its preparations for Euro 2016 with a 7-0 thrashing of Estonia in Lisbon on Wednesday. Back from an extended break after his exploits for Real Madrid in the Champions League final, Ronaldo scored two of the home side's three first-half goals before being replaced at the interval. However, Quaresma stole the show with a superb display. The winger not only found the net in each half, but also had a hand in three other goals, helping Portugal sign off in style before it travels to France. Danilo Pereira headed home a Quaresma corner to get his first international goal, while an unfortunate deflection off Estonia's Karol Mets made it 5-0 just after the hour mark. After Quaresma completed his brace with a well-struck drive, substitute Eder rounded out the scoring to carry a red-hot Portugal to a magnificent seven-goal win. Ronaldo and Real Madrid colleague Pepe both returned to a side showing seven changes from the line-up that started the 1-0 defeat to England at Wembley last time out. Having already been denied by Estonia goalkeeper Pavel Londak, Portugal's all-time leading scorer broke the deadlock in the 36th minute courtesy of an exquisite Quaresma cross from the left wing. The delivery, struck with the outside of the right foot, curled over to the back post where Ronaldo planted a firm header high into the net. The provider turned scorer three minutes later, this time Quaresma using his right instep to curl a delightful chip over Londak and into the far corner of the goal. After his cheeky flick sent Joao Mario clear down the right, Ronaldo scored again with a first-time effort from the return pass. His strike, hit into the ground, ballooned up over Londak, who had barely been tested before Portugal's nine-minute treble before the break. Any hopes of a hat trick from the home side's talismanic captain disappeared with his halftime withdrawal, Fernando Santos taking no risks with Portugal's Euro 2016 opener against Iceland less than a week away. Estonia missed the chance to get a goal back early in the second half, Sander Puri hitting the crossbar with a left-footed attempt with Portugal goalkeeper Rui Patricio caught out of position after failing to deal with a deep free kick. It was not long before there were further goals, though, as Quaresma's delivery from the right led to Portugal's next two. The Besiktas winger sent over a corner that allowed an unmarked Danilo to head home, while a whipped-in cross then saw Mets unable to do anything but deflect Londak's clearing punch into his own net. Quaresma aimed a low drive into the bottom left corner to score again after 77 minutes before Eder's calm finish completed an emphatic display that will only raise his country's hopes ahead of a major tournament. | 1 | 99,139 | sports |
(Bloomberg) -- Apple Inc. is introducing new ways to generate revenue from apps by offering incentives to encourage subscription-based models and charging developers for prominent placement within the U.S. App Store search. It's the latest move by Apple to offset slowing iPhone sales by boosting revenue from web services. Marketing head Phil Schiller was placed in charge of the App Store in December, helping boost sales from services, which also include Apple Music, iTunes and iCloud, by more than 23 percent in the six months through March. Under a new revenue-sharing program with developers outlined Wednesday, Apple's cut from an app will fall to 15 percent after a user has subscribed for a year, according to its website. The Cupertino, California-based company currently keeps 30 percent of revenue from an app, irrespective of how long a user subscribes. The changes will take effect June 13, the day Apple's Worldwide Developer Conference starts in San Francisco. By encouraging app developers to build subscription-based programs, Apple will reduce its dependence on less predictable sums when customers make one-off payments for apps or in-app purchases. The push into paid search echoes the business model of Alphabet Inc.'s Google. Developers will be able to set their own budget for the product, which Apple is calling 'Search Ads', and pay only when a user taps an ad. Bloomberg News first reported on the plans in April. To contact the reporter on this story: Alex Webb in San Francisco at awebb25@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Jillian Ward at jward56@bloomberg.net, Molly Schuetz, Andrew Pollack ©2016 Bloomberg L.P. | 3 | 99,140 | finance |
An 82-year-old man is out to prove that you're never to old to rock out. When John Hetlinger strutted to the "America's Got Talent," the sound out of his mouth was the last thing anyone, judges included, expected. Hetlinger flew jets in the Navy, helped fix the Hubble Telescope for NASA, but he said being on AGT was the highlight of his life. In an unsuspecting performance, the crowd stood up, headbanging to the heavy metal tune, throwing fists in the air in front of the stunned judges. | 8 | 99,141 | video |
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To understand what made boxing legend Muhammad Ali tick, it helps to look at the history of his hometown Louisville and the roiling social turmoil of his childhood in the segregated US south. Ali, who was born in 1942, came of age in the 1950s. Dwight Eisenhower was the president. And young Cassius Clay lived at 3302 Grand Avenue in the Kentucky city. It was a middle class part of town, with lawyers and doctors living among the regular working folks. It was also a mainly black neighborhood. The Clay house was a modest one. The family was quite proud of a fish pond they had in the backyard. The future three-time heavyweight champion of the world shared a bedroom with his younger brother, Rudolph Valentino Clay. Their parents slept in the only other bedroom in the house. Ali's father, a sign painter, was known for his artistic abilities. His mother was loving and showed it, neighbors say. Cassius and Rudy Clay were raised in the Baptist faith. Only later would they be known as Muhammad and Rahman Ali. The brothers were best friends, loved eating ice cream, and were noticed in their all-black school for being bigger than the other kids. Racial segregation was a fact of life for the pair, but at their young age, they learned to adapt. "Black people were not equal to white people in those days," Rahman Ali, now 72, told AFP. "We mixed with our own kind. That's how things were at that time." In the middle of the 20th century, the economy in Louisville -- the largest city in the southern US state of Kentucky, the home of bourbon -- was bouncing back from the difficulties sparked by Prohibition. - 'She shouldn't sit here' - The place to see and be seen in Louisville was Fourth Street, the liveliest in town, and where the city's high society went to window shop. Bars and restaurants on the street were strictly whites only. Blacks often crossed the street to the other side to avoid being called "negro" -- or worse. "In some of the stores you couldn't try on clothes, you couldn't sit at the lunch counters and eat," recalled Joanna Smith, one of Ali's high school classmates. "If you went to a shop and paid your money, you didn't try the clothes, you just hoped that they fit you." In Louisville, as in many other US cities at the time, blacks had to sit in the back of buses and train cars, and drink at separate water fountains labeled "Colored." The local celebrity at the time was Colonel Harland Sanders, a restaurant owner whose face is still part of the logo for the fast-food chain Kentucky Fried Chicken (KFC). Smith, a school principal who is now retired, relayed the story of one particularly humiliating day when she was six or seven years old, and was walking up to Fourth Street with her older sister. "I can remember going to McCrory's, that was a five-and-dime store. I was so tired so my sister picked me up and sat me on a stool and somebody said: 'She shouldn't sit here.'" - Chocolate and vanilla - McCrory's has since closed its doors. So has Stewart's Dry Goods, once the city's largest department store. In the 1950s, its elegant Orchid Tea Room was quite popular. White women had lunch there, in hats and gloves. Farther south on the street was the Brown Hotel, where former British prime minister David Lloyd George was the first to sign the guest register in 1923. Generations of whites danced under its crystal chandeliers. In 1928, the Loew's Theater opened on Fourth Street, with a magnificent multicolored rococo facade. It, too, was only for whites. The list goes on. Fontaine Ferry Park, with its skating rink and wooden roller coasters? No blacks allowed. The Walgreens drugstore? Same thing. What must the young Cassius -- entering his teens -- have been thinking? We know at least one of his dreams at the time -- to own a red Schwinn bicycle. He eventually got one, but it was stolen soon thereafter. Cassius, disgusted, went to see police. He spoke to officer Joe Martin, promising that he would "whup" the thief. Martin, who was the head of boxing for the city's recreation department, urged Cassius to come learn to box at the Columbia Gym. And such was the start of a storied career. Cassius started getting up at 5 am to run in Chickasaw Park, the only public park open to blacks. He tested his sprinting skills against city buses. Nothing would stop him from being "The Greatest." But he was marked by a childhood lived in the shadow of whites. "Everything good and with authority is white," Ali once said. "I want a dip of chocolate and a dip of vanilla, and I bet you a thousand to one, that every time, they put the chocolate on the bottom and the vanilla on the top." Sixty-two years after the theft of that red Schwinn, America's first black president is in the White House. Louisville made peace with its segregationist past. And blacks and whites will come together Friday to bid farewell to Ali, The Champ for all. | 5 | 99,143 | news |
Bernie Sanders claims that "Democrats win when the voter turnout is high" and "Republicans win when the voter turnout is low." But past voter turnout numbers and research on what could happen with higher turnout don't support such a definitive statement. Sanders recently made the claim on CBS' "Face the Nation," while making the argument that his campaign, not Hillary Clinton's, could generate the turnout needed for a Democrat to win the presidential election (at the 6:40 mark). Sanders, May 29: We have the energy and the enthusiasm in our campaign that Clinton's campaign, frankly, in my view, does not have, that can generate a large voter turnout in November. Democrats win when the voter turnout is high. We can generate that. Republicans win when the voter turnout is low. Frankly, I don't know that Secretary Clinton's campaign can create a high voter turnout. This is a talking point for Sanders, who also made the claim in February , during one of the debates, and tweeted it . But as we wrote after that debate, the data on voter turnout in presidential elections don't show a clear trend. Now, we've taken a closer look at the research about what could happen with higher turnout, or even full turnout, and that too doesn't show that more voters would always lead to Democratic wins. Let's start with the data on past presidential elections. In February, we looked at voter turnout for the voting age population, numbers available from the American Presidency Project at the University of California, Santa Barbara. But one of the directors of that site, John T. Woolley, a political science professor at UC Santa Barbara, told us data on the voting eligible population (which would exclude those not able to vote, such as felons in many states and noncitizens) would be better for this topic. The voting eligible population turnout rates don't show a clear pattern either in past presidential elections. Here are the lists of Democratic and Republican presidential wins and the voting eligible turnout rates back to 1972. (The data go back to 1789 on the United States Elections Project website , run by Michael P. McDonald, a political science professor at the University of Florida.) Since 1972 the highest turnout was 61.6 percent in 2008, when Democrat Barack Obama won. The lowest turnout, however, was also for a Democratic president, Bill Clinton's reelection in 1996. And the second-highest turnout was 60.1 percent in 2004, when President George W. Bush won reelection. The average turnout for Republican winners during this time was 55.45 percent, and the average for Democratic winners was 56.88 percent, a slight edge for the Democrats. Experts told us the overall voter turnout rate by itself wasn't that meaningful. Which party benefits from higher turnout depends on who and where the additional voters show up at the polls. "Most often, higher turnout favors Democrats," McDonald told us in an email. "Generally, it is true that low propensity voters tend to prefer Democratic candidates. However, this is just a tendency: there are also people who prefer Republicans among these low propensity voters. Thus, depending on who shows up to vote, it is possible to have higher turnout and for Republican candidates to do better." Woolley said that "[g]ross turnout is not as important as turnout in 'battleground' states." With an electoral college, drumming up higher turnout in a state that reliably votes Democratic, or Republican, anyway, wouldn't make a difference. "[M]obilizing the base in California or, say, Kansas will affect aggregate turnout but have no particular consequences for the overall election result." Even in battleground states, higher turnout can favor one party over the other, depending on who exactly turns out to vote and how they choose to vote in that particular election. For instance, in Ohio , in 2008, Democrat Obama won the state with 66.9 percent of the voting eligible population voting for the highest office. That's the highest turnout in the presidential elections in the state since at least 2000 (as far back as the state data go on McDonald's Elections Project site). But, Republican Bush's win in 2004 nearly matched that high turnout, with 66.8 percent of the voting eligible population in Ohio casting votes for president. That's a mere snapshot of two elections in one state, but it shows that Sanders' claim of a Democratic win with high turnout is far from a given. Here's another example: In the presidential elections from 2000 through 2012, the lowest statewide turnout rate for the highest office for eligible voters in Florida was 55.9 percent in 2000, when Republican Bush won in what was a very close and contested vote. But in 2004, Florida's turnout rate jumped to 64.4 percent, and Bush still won. Obama won the state in 2008 with an even higher 66.1 percent, but again won in 2012 with a lower 62.8 percent. The Sanders camp has pointed to surveys from the Pew Research Center that show that nonvoters tend to have more liberal views on some policy issues than voters (but not so much on social issues). Pew has also found that nonvoters have weaker partisan ties, but are still more likely to identify as Democrats than Republicans. In terms of demographics, the Pew research finds: "Nonvoters are younger, less educated and less affluent than are likely voters." But that doesn't mean that if all of those nonvoters or even more of them voted, Democrats would necessarily win. The Research and Conventional Wisdom In 2003, three researchers from the University of California, Berkeley wrote in the American Journal of Political Science that it was "conventional wisdom among journalists and politicians" that "higher turnout would benefit Democrats." The thinking goes that "since nonvoters in America are drawn disproportionately from the poor, the working class, and ethnic minorities groups that tend to support Democrats higher turnout would produce more Democratic votes." But, they said, "Much empirical research, however, suggests that increased turnout would not necessarily benefit the Democrats." One complicating factor is that nonvoters tend to have weaker party loyalty than voters, and, therefore, stronger inclinations to favor a candidate from a party other than the one with which they traditionally identify. That 2003 paper noted that back in 1980 James DeNardo , at the time an assistant professor of politics at Princeton University, had found that higher turnout would "tend to benefit" the political party that is in the minority in that " particular jurisdiction." The Berkeley researchers Jack Citrin, Eric Schickler and John Sides calculated what the impact would have been on U.S. Senate races between 1994 and 1998 if there had been full voter turnout that's if everyone voted using Census Bureau and exit poll data. They found that "in the majority of cases, nonvoters tend to be more Democratic, sometimes substantially so." But nonvoters' partisan leanings "fluctuate significantly across states and over time, and there are instances in which nonvoters are actually more Republican than voters." Would full turnout have changed who won these Senate races? In tight races, yes, the increased turnout could have flipped the result. But the researchers found few of those many races simply aren't that close and it wasn't always the Democrat who came out the winner under these simulations. They did find that with full turnout "Democrats typically do better," but the margins are small. "The Democratic candidate's percent of the vote increases by an average of 1.5 percentage points in 1994, 1.3 points in 1996, and .15 points in 1998," they wrote. That's why the close races could have a different outcome if everyone voted, but full turnout wouldn't make a difference if the election wasn't tight. Among the four Senate races between 1994 and 1998 for which the researchers found a change in outcome, three benefited the Democrat and one benefited the Republican. More recently, in 2008, Citrin, Schickler and Sides modeled what full turnout would have meant for the 1992 through 2004 presidential elections in a paper titled " If Everyone Had Voted, Would Bubba and Dubya Have Won? " published in the journal Presidential Studies Quarterly . The bottom line: Again, full turnout could have tipped the balance in very close elections, but wouldn't have made a difference in others. "Our estimates suggest that there is a reasonably high probability that Al Gore and John Kerry would have won under universal turnout, but both elections still would have been extremely close," they wrote. "This suggests that although universal turnout might well tip very close elections in the Democrats' favor, the electoral landscape would not be transformed. And, of course, the impact of higher but less than universal turnout would depend on which voters were mobilized in a particular contest." That paper described the nonvoters as "slightly more Democratic than voters," explaining that the difference in partisan leanings of voters versus nonvoters in some states was large, but in others, not so much. More recently, in a March 2015 piece for the Washington Post , John Sides , now an associate political science professor at George Washington University, gave a rundown of the available literature on this topic. President Obama had suggested mandatory voting would make a difference, saying, "That would counteract [campaign] money more than anything. If everybody voted, then it would completely change the political map in this country." But Sides said, "If everyone voted, a lot would be the same." Sides also noted that the differences between voters' and nonvoters' political leanings were typically small, and larger differences, such as those found in the 2012 Pew survey the one cited by the Sanders camp "are the exception, not the rule." In a subsequent piece for the Washington Post , Sides explained that calculations by Anthony Fowler at the University of Chicago, as well as Sides and his Berkeley colleagues, suggest that this gap between voters' and nonvoters' party identification "may be larger in 2010 and 2012 than in at least some earlier elections," though that gap may vary from state to state. McDonald, of the Elections Project site, cited a growing "age gap" in the political preferences of the youth and the elderly in a 2011 piece for Huffington Post , with the youth being more liberal. A much smaller percentage of the youth vote in midterm elections than vote in presidential elections, McDonald wrote, so if they did turnout for the midterms in the same numbers, that could make a difference for Democrats. But only in razor-thin races: McDonald found Democratic candidates would have garnered an additional 1 percentage point of the vote in the 2010 midterms if the electorate had been like that of the 2008 presidential election. Sides and his colleagues aren't the only researchers to have reached the conclusion that full turnout would alter very few election outcomes. For instance, Sides cites the work of Thomas L. Brunell of the University of Texas at Dallas and John Dinardo of the University of Michigan. Their November 2004 paper on the simulated outcome of full turnout in the 1952 through 2000 presidential elections concluded: "Higher turnout in the form of compulsory voting would not radically change the partisan distribution of the vote." Brunell and Dinardo, whose paper was published in the journal Political Analysis , found that of the 13 elections analyzed, full turnout would produce "no change in the eventual outcome of the election with two possible exceptions: 1980 and 2000." The researchers found a "generally small" bias against Democrats in the range of 2 to 3 percentage points, "which is usually insufficient to overturn a presidential election, in large part because most presidential elections are won by more than a percentage point or two." A couple of caveats: Higher turnout is different from full turnout. As we noted above, with higher turnout, which party would benefit would depend on which voters cast ballots that is, where the higher turnout comes from. And as Sides notes in his Washington Post piece, compulsory voting could lead to changes in the behavior of candidates and parties, unknown factors that these universal vote simulations can't model. Overall, Sanders' blanket statement isn't supported by data or research on past presidential elections. Higher turnout could potentially tip an election to the Democratic candidate, but, the research shows, that would be the case in very close elections. And it depends on where and how the increased turnout votes. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/05758abc-43c2-4474-8d5a-89ce3160ec3c | 5 | 99,144 | news |
PHOENIX An Arizona jury on Wednesday convicted a founder of the Minuteman border-watch group of molesting one young girl, but it acquitted him of engaging in sexual conduct with another. Christopher Allen Simcox was found guilty on charges that he molested a 5-year-old girl and showed her pornography. He was acquitted of the more serious charges that he engaged in sexual conduct with a 6-year-old girl. A molestation conviction carries a sentence of 10 to 24 years in prison. Simcox, 55, is scheduled to be sentenced on July 5. Prosecutors alleged that Simcox molested the younger girl and engaged in sexual conduct with the older girl during an 11-month period ending in May 2013. In closing arguments, a prosecutor scoffed at Simcox's claim that the girls were pressured by adults to bring the allegations. Simcox, who isn't a lawyer but nonetheless represented himself at trial, told jurors that he didn't abuse the girls. His arrest in 2013 came after his career as an advocate for tougher immigration policies had fizzled. The Minuteman movement stepped into the spotlight in 2005 when illegal immigration heated up as a national political issue. Minuteman volunteers fanned out along the nation's southern border to watch for illegal crossings and report them to federal agents. The movement splintered after Simcox and another co-founder parted ways and headed up separate groups. Simcox, who once served as publisher of the Tombstone Tumbleweed newspaper, went on to briefly enter Arizona's 2010 U.S. Senate primary against incumbent John McCain but dropped out of the race. His name didn't appear on the ballot. More than a decade ago, Simcox was sentenced to two years of probation for misdemeanor convictions in federal court for carrying a concealed handgun at the Coronado National Memorial near the Arizona-Mexico border in January 2003. Earlier in the sex abuse case, Simcox drew the ire of prosecutors and victim representatives when he insisted that he should be allowed to personally question the girls while they take the witness stand. Prosecutors argued that letting Simcox question the girls would cause them emotional distress. In the end, Simcox got an attorney advising him to pose the questions. | 5 | 99,145 | news |
MEDINA, Ohio -- A man whose daughter's decomposed body was found in a crib by a cable television worker was convicted Wednesday of corpse abuse and tampering with evidence. Investigators were unable to determine how 21-month-old Ember Warfel died last summer because her body was so badly decomposed. Prosecutors argued that her father, Eric Warfel, did not report his daughter's death because he did not want an autopsy performed. A judge also found the 35-year-old Warfel guilty of child endangering. Warfel, who was found competent to stand trial after pleading not guilty by reason of insanity, will be sentenced next month and faces up to six years in prison. Ember's body was discovered last July in a Medina apartment, south of Cleveland. Another daughter of Warfel's, a 5-month-old, died in 2013. A medical examiner ruled that case as a "sudden unexplained infant death." Warfel's attorney has said Ember was born with severe medical problems. He also said Warfel's failure to report his daughter's death was not enough reason to convict him on the corpse abuse and tampering charges. While the cause of the girl's death has not been determined, an autopsy did find traces of cocaine in her hair samples. Warfel was arrested after a cable technician went into an apartment to upgrade the service and found the toddler's body in her crib. Warfel, who was divorced from the girl's mother, had full custody of the child. He told investigators Ember died about a month earlier and he hadn't informed family members or anyone else about her death, according to a police report. Warfel was arrested while he and his 7-year-old daughter were at a mall near Cleveland. He said they were living at a motel, and investigators found cocaine in his motel room, police said. | 5 | 99,146 | news |
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The doctors told Victoria Vigo her third child must be born by Cesarean. It was safest, they said -- she was seven months pregnant and there were complications. They cut her open -- but they didn't stop there. Without telling her, they also tied her fallopian tubes. She would have no more children. Her baby died, and Vigo became one of 300,000 people campaigners say were forcibly sterilized by the Peruvian state in 1996 and 2001. Next month, thousands of them hope to learn whether the courts will at last agree to investigate charges against the man they blame: the president at the time, Alberto Fujimori. "What most upset me was the death of my son. But what's more, I heard they had sterilized me. I felt impotent, angry," Vigo told AFP by telephone. "I wasn't expecting it," she said. "I was outraged. The doctor had never come and talked about the decision with me." Vigo, 32 at the time of the operation, sued the doctor who sterilized her. "He said he was following orders," she recalled. Five years later, a court awarded her $2,500 in compensation. What she really wants is for Fujimori and his former health ministers to go on trial. - 'Crime against humanity' - Fujimori's government called it a "reproductive health and family planning" program. Rights groups say it was something much darker. "Fujimori said he wanted to guarantee that women could decide how many children they wanted to have," said Maria Ysabel Cedano, leader of the Peruvian women's rights group DEMUS. "In practice, what he wanted was for poor women and men to stop reproducing," she said. "Those most affected were poor (indigenous) women, Quechua speakers in rural areas, young women." Peru's first lady at the time was Fujimori's daughter, Keiko. She now wants to follow in her father's footsteps by becoming Peru's leader. Officials are counting the last votes from a presidential election on Sunday. Fujimori's rival Pedro Pablo Kuczynski had a slim lead Wednesday with more than 99 percent of the ballots counted. Keiko Fujimori, 41, has promised to compensate the victims of the forced sterilizations. She has not admitted the state was to blame. Kuczynski has described the sterilizations as "a crime against humanity." He says the state owes the victims compensation. "That reassures me somewhat," said Alfonso Ramos, 56. His sister Celia died in 1997 after a botched sterilization in the family's home city of Piura. He says health officials came repeatedly to his sister's house pressuring her to agree to be sterilized. "She did not want to. She resisted," he said. "They offered the family food and medicine if she would do it. And in the end she did." Celia Ramos was in such pain after the operation that doctors gave her a second anesthetic, her brother said. That gave her a heart attack. She fell into a coma and died weeks later. She was 33 and had three young children. "The state has never compensated them to help repair the harm done," her brother said. "It is frustrating but even so I think that one day there will be justice." - 'Unhealthy and dangerous' - State prosecutors had been expected to announce in February whether they would formally investigate the victims' charges against Fujimori and his ex-officials. The date of that hearing was postponed. It is now expected in early July. DEMUS said the hearing was postponed due to "political interference" to protect Keiko Fujimori's election chances. According to the rights group and Peru's state ombudsman, around 300,000 people were sterilized under the program. Of those, Cedano estimates that 23,000 were men who were made to undergo vasectomies. Amnesty International's regional director Erika Guevara-Rosas last year called it "one of the most serious human rights violations in the Americas." Cedano says doctors were pressured to meet quotas for sterilizations. The evidence, she says, is in documents filed by lawyers for more than 4,000 people who are suing the Peruvian state. Alberto Fujimori is already in jail serving a 25-year sentence for massacres of alleged terrorists in the early 1990s. The state prosecution service declined to pursue a case against Alberto Fujimori in 2014 over the sterilizations. Instead it brought charges against six doctors. It said there was not enough evidence to show that Fujimori had pursued a deliberate policy of forced sterilizations. Victims appealed that decision. Despite the painful memories of her father's rule, Keiko Fujimori won virtually half the votes in the election, and her party won a majority in Congress. "That this could be done with impunity and that many people justify it... and that a political group capable of doing that could be elected -- that is really unhealthy and really dangerous," Cedano said, wiping away tears. "It is painful and outrageous. What happened to those women could have happened to anyone." | 5 | 99,148 | news |
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CRANBERRY TOWNSHIP, Pa The Pittsburgh Penguins' plan heading into Thursday's potential Stanley Cup-clinching game is to remember that the late Yogi Berra was right. It's not over until it's over. While Pittsburgh fans bubble over about the possibility of celebrating an NHL championship for the first time on home ice, the Penguins are focused on approaching Game 5 against the San Jose Sharks (8 p.m. ET, NBC) with the same mindset they have employed since the playoffs began two months ago. "When you are looking too far in the future, it really takes away from what you are doing at the present time," Penguins defenseman Ian Cole said. "For us right now, it's important to live in the moment. That's something that (coach Mike Sullivan) has been preaching for a while now." Distractions are everywhere. The city is buzzing. Many businesses have "Go Pens" placards visible in storefronts. It seems as if everybody is trying to find a ticket. As of 5 p.m. ET Wednesday, tickets were on sale for between $1,148 and $10,000, on ticketexchange.com. "We only want to think about the game," Penguins defenseman Ben Lovejoy said. "That's the only thing we are talking about." The Penguins' three Stanley Cup championships were won in Bloomington, Minn. (1991), Chicago (1992) and Detroit (2009). "When you talk about biggest games in Pittsburgh in the last 50 years, this game is in the conversation," said Joe Starkey, talk radio host for Pittsburgh's 93.7 The Fan. With a 3-1 advantage in the best-of-seven series, the Penguins have looked dominant. But each of their wins have come in tight games. One win came from Nick Bonino in the closing minutes of regulation. Another came on Conor Sheary's overtime tally. Game 4 wasn't sealed until Eric Fehr scored an insurance goal with 2:02 left in regulation. "We have to keep a level head," Pittsburgh winger Chris Kunitz said. "You have to keep it from becoming a roller-coaster ride." It's easy for Pittsburgh fans to get ahead of themselves. Out of 32 teams that have fallen behind 3-1 in a Cup Final, the 1942 Toronto Maple Leafs are the only one to come back to win the Stanley Cup. In this series, the Penguins have scored first in every game and the Sharks have never played with a lead. The Sharks won their only game in overtime. But this Sharks squad had the NHL's best road record (28-10-3) in the regular season. They have also won 13 playoff games this spring. "I think the results are closer than it feels right now," San Jose coach Pete DeBoer said. "We had some good looks. We've got to give ourselves an opportunity that if they stumble we're going to jump on it." The Sharks were loose in practice Wednesday. "I would have been worried had they come in quiet or dragging a little bit," DeBoer said. The Penguins understand what it takes to come from behind in a series. They trailed 3-2 against Tampa Bay Lightning in the Eastern Conference final before winning Games 6 and 7. "We had our backs against the wall against Tampa Bay," Kunitz said. "We know how tough it is to get that last win. We are telling ourselves this has to be our best game." Captain Sidney Crosby said the Penguins have a good read on the Sharks. "We know the last four games have been tough games," he said. "We know the next game will be the toughest. I think guys have kept things in perspective. We know we have some work left." | 1 | 99,150 | sports |
Apple said Wednesday it was revamping its App Store with a new revenue-sharing model for app developers and, for the first time, search-related advertising. The move comes with Apple seeking to boost its revenue from services amid what appears to be a plateauing of sales of iPhones and a slowdown in the table market. In a significant shift in its revenue model, Apple said it would reduce its share to 15 percent from 30 percent for auto-renewed paid apps after the first year. While Apple will be cutting its longstanding share of 30 percent, the move appears to encourage developers to introduce paid models with the new auto-renew feature. "Apps in all App Store categories will soon be eligible to offer auto-renewable subscriptions," said a statement on the App Store website. "Developers will also receive more revenue for qualifying subscriptions after one year, have greater pricing flexibility, and more." Apple also said it would allow app makers to place search-related ads on the App Store, another move that could drive more revenue for the California tech giant. The new feature to be introduced this year on the US App Store is "an easy way for you to promote your app directly," according to the website, "helping customers discover or reengage with your app, while respecting their privacy." Apple said its targeting features will" enable deeper discovery of apps, including lesser known or niche apps." A user won't see ads for apps they already have downloaded, and demographic and device location-based targeting will app developers "a new way to target those specific user groups that matter to you," Apple said. "An ad will only be shown if it is relevant to the search query," Apple added. "You pay only when a user taps on your ad, and our auction system ensures you will always pay a fair market price." These changes could shake up the so-called app economy worth billions of dollars that includes developers creating programs for Apple's iOS and the Google Android operating systems. Apple senior vice president Phil Schiller, who previewed the changes in an interview with The Verge, said the initiative aims to promote the subscription model. "The developers who do have access to the subscriptions have been very happy with them," he told the website. Schiller added that at Apple, "we recognize that developers do a lot of work to retain a customer over time in a subscription model, and we wanted to reward them for that by helping them to keep more of the revenue." Schiller noted that Apple has been seeking a way to allow advertising in a consumer-friendly way on the App Store in response to requests from app developers, while protecting user privacy. | 3 | 99,151 | finance |
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Balance calories in tiny ways that add up to big benefits: You just adopt some tricks naturally lean people do. Pick the ones you like, stick with them, and you'll slim down and tone up for good. Work out when you wake up: Burn 10 calories Balance calories in tiny ways that add up to big benefits: You just adopt some tricks naturally lean people do. Pick the ones you like, stick with them, and you ll slim down and tone up for good. When your eyes open, sit up slowly without using your hands. With legs straight out, lean forward until you feel a gentle stretch in your back and hamstrings. Hold; then, using your abs, lower yourself flat. Rest and repeat two more times. This strengthens your core. These are other morning habits of naturally thin people . Go for the grains: Save 100 calories Not ready for Twigs & Rocks cereal? Sprinkle on a few tablespoons of wheat germ or oat bran to a healthy cereal you already have. Work up to 3/4 cup of low-sugar whole-grain cereal with at least three grams of fiber per serving, and you'll pass on that Danish. Pick something with protein for breakfast: Saves 200 (or more) calories The more you eat earlier on, the less you eat as the day wears on, research has shown. So after your cereal, add a hard-boiled egg or a part-skim mozzarella cheese stick to keep you feeling full and away from that pre-lunch brownie. Check out these high-protein breakfast ideas . Balance while you brush: Burn 10 calories While you brush your teeth, alternate standing on one leg as you switch mouth quadrants (every 30 seconds). Balancing develops your core muscles and may even be good for your brain. Here are other weird brain boosters that really work . Be a ballerina: Burn 10 calories As your coffee drips, stand sideways, put one hand on the counter, and lift the outside leg straight out in front of you, keeping it extended. With upper body straight, hold for a few seconds and move it to the side; hold and extend it behind you. Do five to 10 times on each leg. Tones outer thighs, hip flexors, and quadriceps. Lighten up your coffee: Save 60 calories Instead of pouring that 1/3 cup of half-and-half (a whopping 105 calories!) into your mug, replace it with the same amount of 2 percent milk. Better your bagel: Save 300 calories You can walk 10,000 steps to justify your 500-calorie bagel with cream cheese, or try this: low-fat spreadable cheese like Laughing Cow Light on an English muffin. Tone in traffic: Burn 10 calories Use the time spent bumper-to-bumper to develop your buns of steel: Squeeze your derrière each time you tap the brake, holding for 10 seconds. Shoot for 10 to 15 squeezes a trip. Here's what successful people do on their commute . Snack smarter: Save 175 calories (over two snacks) Portion out the day's snacks into pint-size zip bags, or buy single-serving portions. For example, four regular Oreos have 200 calories versus the 100-calorie snack bag version. Go for the lower fat chips: a Lay's Light bag has only 75 calories, while the regular has 150. Dress casually for the day: Burn 25 calories You will blast more calories during the day wearing comfy clothes like jeans or khakis, sport shirts, and soft-soled shoes than donning constricting suits, skirts, and heels. Why? Because you walk more, a study found. Now you just have to convince the boss. Squat instead of sitting: Burn 15 calories At your desk chair, pretend you're going to sit but don't stop and come back up without using your arms. Always start squats by lowering your hips, not bending knees forward, and keeping your weight on your heels. Repeat the motion throughout the day (even at the potty!) for 15 to 20 total. Strengthens quadriceps. Here are other ways to bounce back from a day of sitting . Switch your soda: Save 300 calories Your body doesn't register calories from liquids the same way it does those from foods, so you won't get those 'stop eating' signals to help you compensate for the overload later on. Change from two glasses of regular soda or fruit juice to diet soda or a flavored seltzer. Walk while you talk: Burn 50 (or more) calories Every time you grab the phone, stand up and pace around. Heavy people sit on average two and a half hours more per day than thin people, according to the Mayo Clinic. Here are 16 ways to lose weight walking . Pick a pita for lunch: Save 70 calories Use one mini whole-wheat pita instead of the usual two slices of white or refined wheat bread for your sandwich. Get up and get face time: Burn 100 calories We use email so much we've forgotten what our co-workers look like. Pick a colleague or two who sits farthest from you and deliver 10 of those daily messages in person. And go out of your way: Hit a bathroom or a copier on another floor and take the stairs, of course. Pause from your papers: Burn 10 calories Take a break by doing a few wall push-ups. Place hands wide at shoulder height against the wall. Take a couple of steps back so your body is at a slight angle and your weight is on your toes, and do three sets of 10 push-ups. Strengthens chest and triceps. Here are other ways to lose weight sitting at your desk . Add an apple (or more) a day: Save 100 calories They're packed with fiber and water, so your stomach will want less. Plus, studies out of Washington State and Brazil have shown that people who eat at least three apples or pears a day lose weight. Try two small apples and two fewer large cookies. Firm after you file: Burn 20 calories Try these simple chair workouts. Dips: If your chair has wheels, brace it against something. Facing forward, place palms on the front edge of the seat with knees bent at a right angle. Lower butt toward the floor; raise and repeat for two sets of 10. Tones triceps. Lifts: Seated in a chair with your back straight and your feet on the floor, squeeze knees together and gently bring them toward your chest. Do two sets of 10. Strengthens abdominals. Wear some weight: Burn 20 calories (for an hour of errands) When you're grocery shopping or running errands, wear a backpack with a 5-or 10-pound bag of sugar inside to increase resistance and burn more calories. Add purchases to your load as it becomes easier. Tweak your treat: Save 340 calories Instead of a large latte and a chocolate muffin, get a small nonfat latte and a small low-fat raisin or carrot muffin. Get active at the gas station: Burn 10 calories Instead of fuming over gas prices, think about firming your calves: With one hand on your car, stand on the balls of your feet and slowly rise up and down for as long as it takes your tank to fill for an SUV that might be 50 raises! Pat down your pizza: Save 50 to 100 calories Blot your slice with a napkin to cut anywhere from a teaspoon to a tablespoon of grease and calories. Shop till the pounds drop: Burn 60 calories At the mall, try on at least 10 outfits, both pants and shirts. No need to buy! Make your meals mini: Save 390 calories Some experts suggest eating that eating six healthy smaller meals a day can help minimize blood sugar swings and curb your hunger throughout the day, meaning you won't overeat at any one particular meal. If instead you prefer eating three meals a day, make sure you pick smaller portion sizes. Relax and recharge: Burn 5 calories Anytime you're waiting in line, stand evenly on both feet, clasp hands behind your back and squeeze shoulder blades together to open your chest, an energizing yoga-based move that stimulates the nervous system. Hold for 10 to 20 seconds while slowly breathing in and out, taking longer on the inhale. Jog for junk mail: Burn 35 to 140 calories Turn clutter into a challenge: For every piece of junk mail you pull from the mailbox each day, do one lap around your house or building, or up and down a flight of stairs. Better your butter: Save 30 calories No, you don't have to give up the real deal instead of a tablespoon of stick butter, use a tablespoon of whipped and cut half the calories. Stop on the stairs: Burn 10 calories Before you lug those backpacks upstairs, stop and stand on the bottom step for these calf toners. Hold the banister with one hand. Bend your right leg and place the toes of your left foot on the edge of the step. Let your heel drop down, press into the ball of your left foot and rise to your toes. Pause; repeat with each foot for 8 to 12 reps. Start with soup: Save 100 calories Order a clear soup instead of a salad soaked with two tablespoons full-fat ranch and you can save twice the calories. Plus you'll feel fuller, so you'll eat less when the entrée comes. These are the best and worst soups for weight loss . Sculpt while you sit: Burn 10 calories After dinner, while you're still sitting at the table, extend your right leg out and slowly bend it up and down, squeezing and holding in the up position for at least five seconds. Repeat on each leg five times. Sculpts quadriceps. Perfect your pasta: Save 400 calories Substitute two cups of pasta for two cups of zucchini noodles and you'll still get to feel like you're indulging in carbs for a fraction of the calories. Climb to cut calories: Burn 100-140 calories Taking the stairs for a total of just two minutes, five days a week, gives you the same calorie-burning results as a 20-minute walk. Fill up with fruit: Save 275 calories Like pie? Here's how you can cave to the craving: Sprinkle fresh fruit some cut-up apple, pear, or a handful of cherries with some Splenda or Equal, cover and nuke for a minute or so. Tastes just like pie filling. Ditch heavy desserts: Save 70 calories Need dessert for a special occasion? Pick up an angel food cake. It's packed with air and has fewer than half the calories of, say, pound cake. Switch to sugar-free: Save 185 calories If you need to get your chocolate fix, instead of a candy bar try a sugar-free, reduced-calorie Jell-O chocolate pudding snack with a squirt of nonfat whipped cream topping. Eat it with a baby spoon to savor it longer. Ease into evening: Burn 5 calories Sitting with feet uncrossed, grab your wrist and raise your hands above your head to lengthen the spine. Take a deep breath in as you reach and hold the position, breathing slowly in and out for 20 seconds, taking longer on the exhale. Instant relaxation. Crunch for your clicker: Burn 24 calories The average half-hour TV show has eight minutes of commercials. Make reaching for the remote control worth it: Place it out of reach on the coffee table or, if you're lying down, on the opposite arm of the couch. Every time an ad comes on and you reach for the remote, crunch until the show comes back on; you should reach 100 to 150 or so. Lift while you lie: Burn 10 calories Before you tuck yourself in, lie on your back on the floor with your legs up on the edge of the bed or a chair. Slowly bend your knees, lifting your hips off the floor. Hold for five seconds, relax and repeat 10 to 12 times. Firms up hamstrings and core. Sing a song: Burn 70 calories Spend Sunday morning belting it out in the church choir, or even just in your car! Bring on the bacon: Save 90 calories At the diner, order three slices of crisp bacon instead of two sausage links, and pat off the extra grease. Get up during the game: Burn 75 calories Attending your kid's sports event this weekend? After every quarter of the game, get up from the bleachers and take a lap around the gym or field. Four or five times around a typical one is about a mile. Make choices at the movies: Save 350 calories Most people eat 45 percent more popcorn from large-size containers, so make sure you get only a small and skip the butter, which adds more calories than the popcorn itself. Bring your own seasoned salt or Parmesan cheese for more flavor. Resist at restaurants: Save 400-500 calories At Chinese restaurants for instance, be sure to avoid anything named General Tso or Crispy, which means fried. Eat only the filling of the egg roll and not the shell. These are other menu words to avoid if you're trying to lose weight. Add fun activities: Burn 90 calories Spend even just half an hour tossing a ball or Frisbee with your kid. Omit from your order: Save 100 calories Order your pizza with half the cheese or even cheese-less, and then sprinkle with a few tablespoons of Parmesan. Have a hot dog: Saves 250 calories Pile on the pickles, onions and sauerkraut these fiber-packed foods will fill you up and prevent you from eating a second dog. Skip the cheese, chili, and unhealthy condiments like ketchup. Think about your drink: Save 150 to 200 calories Consider beer or wine instead of a frozen drink: A glass of regular beer has 140 calories and a serving of wine has 126 calories, while a strawberry daiquiri has about 300 and a margarita 340. Fix your fries: Save 60 calories Rather than asking for medium fries, get an order of onion rings (eight to nine rings). Scream for sorbet: Save 125 calories Indulge in chocolate or fruit sorbet instead of chocolate ice cream. Switch-out the bedtime snack: Burn 300 calories Instead of a bowl of ice cream as a bedtime snack, snuggle with your spouse. | 7 | 99,153 | health |
Pork is one of the best performing commodities this year. CNBC's Kate Kelly reports from the World Pork Expo in Iowa, on increased demand of lean hogs. | 3 | 99,154 | finance |
It took a long time, but the mainstream media is finally fed up with Donald Trump. | 8 | 99,155 | video |
(Bloomberg) -- United Airlines' board was too isolated in recent years, allowing the carrier to fall behind rivals since its 2010 merger, said Chief Executive Oscar Munoz, who shouldered some of the responsibility himself. "As board members, we only meet infrequently and are not as engaged with the front line, necessarily," he said at the airline's annual meeting Wednesday in Chicago. "The first thing I did as CEO was I left this board room" and visited employees at United, the No. 3 U.S. airline by traffic last year. While directors don't meet often, they carry "some of the blame" for not being more observant, said Munoz, who was named CEO in September. Better operational insight might have prompted the board to insist on fixing a buggy reservations system that resulted in grounded flights or to solve technical issues that prevented employees from being paid on time, he said. While Chicago-based United has improved its on-time arrival rate significantly in recent months, it ranked 10th out of 13 carriers for the year through September. Munoz accepted criticism for his own oversight since 2004, first as a board member of Continental Airlines and then of United. The pair merged in 2010. Investor Criticism A few investors and employees criticized the board's lack of oversight as shareholders re-elected 14 directors. Half have joined the board since March, following a shakeup in which two large investors put forth their own candidates. Jim Jackson, a United shareholder, said he stopped flying United five years ago because he was frustrated with bad customer service, especially by flight attendants. He now flies Delta and American, he said. "How in the world did you allow United to get out of hand like it did?" Jackson asked. Munoz praised the flight attendants and said years of mistreatment may have taken a toll. "They are human and were not treated as professionals," he told Jackson. New Directors A man who identified himself as an employee and shareholder praised the addition of United's new board members, "who can call B.S." when they hear it. Chairman Robert Milton, who previously ran Air Canada, is among the new directors. Ed Shapiro and Barney Harford joined in April at the suggestion of activist investors Altimeter Capital Management and PAR Capital Management. United tapped Munoz as CEO after ousting Jeff Smisek in connection with a federal probe into the airline's relationship with the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey. Munoz suffered a heart attack a month into the job, had a heart transplant in January and returned in March. He has spent much of his time visiting with employees as a means to win back their loyalty. To contact the reporter on this story: Michael Sasso in Atlanta at msasso9@bloomberg.net. To contact the editors responsible for this story: Brendan Case at bcase4@bloomberg.net, Tony Robinson ©2016 Bloomberg L.P. | 3 | 99,156 | finance |
With 5000 crew members, including engineers and fighter pilots, the USS Harry Truman serves as a staging ground for a near-constant barrage of airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria. Photo: Tamer El-Ghobashy/WSJ | 8 | 99,157 | video |
A little boy was caught on home security cameras entering another person's garage only to hug the homeowner's dog. The boy, known only as Josh, is seen hopping off his bike and sprinting into the wide open garage, throwing his arms around a black Labrador named Duchess for a quick greeting. The video came to light when the Louisiana homeowner , Hollie Mallet, was reviewing her security footage and was surprised by what she saw. "My husband and I thought it was just too cute. This little boy loved our dog so much that he just wanted to steal a quick hug," she told Inside Edition. She posted the video on Facebook asking who the child is. "Anyone know who this sweet little boy is? I'd like to tell him he's welcome to stay and play, she loves the attention," she wrote. Josh's mom, Ginger Breaux, was alerted to the Facebook post and commented: "Last night when I first saw it, I was torn as a momma being happy and upset because he knows he shouldn't be on someone's property." The boy felt compelled to play with Duchess since his dog, Bella, passed away a year ago. Josh does not need to sneak into the garage any longer, as Mallet has invited him to play with Duchess anytime he wants. "I think he has pretty much been over every day," Mallet told Inside Edition. | 4 | 99,158 | lifestyle |
PITTSBURGH Thursday could be be Patrick Marleau's last game as a Shark. A franchise icon since being drafted second overall in 1997, Marleau has one year left on his contract with San Jose and never completely squelched an early season report suggesting he'd requested a trade. "I haven't even thought about it," Marleau said. His response fits with a team focused on winning Game 5 to extend the best-of-seven Stanley Cup Finals, which the Penguins lead 3-1. The Sharks face nothing but elimination games the rest of the way, whether they hoist the Cup following a Game 7 on Wednesday or fall short beforehand. Regardless of the outcome, there will be changes next season. Salary cap restraints, the emergence of younger players and roles continuing to evolve necessitate change. "Usually groups don't stay together two years in a row," Sharks forward Chris Tierney said. "I don't know if that's even happened. "Obviously, we're not going to be the same group of guys in here. It's a great group. We want to go out with a bang. We don't want to go home yet. I want to play as long as I can with these guys," he added. Marleau, who has played a combined 1,580 regular-season and playoff games for the Sharks, would be the headliner from a group of possible departures. He's set most of the team's offensive records during his 18 years of service. The 36-year-old is coming off a season of 25 goals and 48 points, fourth most on the team. He has added five goals and 13 points in 22 playoff games during the Sharks' current postseason run. Due to be paid $6.5 million next season (a $6.667 million cap hit), it's certainly not a given that Marleau can be moved. But if his intentions are to leave, it's likely the Sharks would find a deal. The durable Marleau has played every game for seven straight seasons. He missed eight games during his rookie year (1997-98), the most of his first 11 seasons before his current ironman streak of 542 straight games. Marleau has scored 481 goals (92 game-winners) and 1,036 points in 1,411 regular-season games and added 65 goals and 116 points in 169 playoff games all franchise record numbers. In addition to Marleau, the team has five unrestricted free agents forwards Dainius Zubrus, Nick Spaling, defensemen Roman Polak, Matt Tennyson and goalie James Reimer in addition to restricted free agents Matt Nieto, Tomas Hertl, both forwards, and defenseman Dylan DeMelo. "Nobody's talking about that. Maybe we can talk about that later," said Sharks forward Tommy Wingels, reiterating it's all about Game 5. "I don't think it's about anything beyond that. We're not even thinking about Game 6 at home. We have to think about Thursday and winning on the road. "Obviously, if you have a team that wins there's a reason to keep it together," he added. "Unlike other years when you have to make a lot of changes you have the ability to keep it together and improve." Without control of the future, and with their ultimate goal still in sight despite the uphill challenge, the Sharks want to delay the inevitable as long as possible. "I'm proud this group has made it this far and this group has been given the opportunity to play for a Stanley Cup," Wingels said. "I think the belief has always been there that this group could get it done. "It's a brotherhood. It's a long year we've been together and you just want everyone to stay together," Sharks forward Joel Ward added. Ross McKeon is a freelance writer. twitter: @rossmckeon Stanley Cup Finals Sharks vs. Penguins Penguins lead series 3-1 Game 1: Penguins 3, Sharks 2 Game 2: Penguins 2, Sharks 1 (OT) Game 3: Sharks 3, Penguins 2 (OT) Game 4: Penguins 3, Sharks 1 Thursday: at Pittsburgh Sunday: at SAP Center* Wednesday: at Pittsburgh* Remaining telecasts begin at 5 p.m. on Channel: 11 Channel: 3 Channel: 8 *If necessary | 1 | 99,159 | sports |
Somehow we knew this battle was far from over. Chevrolet has released a scathing new commercial attacking the strength of the Ford F-150's aluminum body. When Chevy drops 825 pounds of landscaping blocks into the beds of a Silverado and an F-150, the results aren't pretty for Ford. The heavy blocks scratched and dented the surface of the Silverado's bed but failed to make any punctures over the 12 demonstrations shot for the video. Meanwhile, the F-150 suffered puncture damage on each drop, averaging 4.3 punctures in the bed for each try. It's important to note Chevy tested both vehicles without bed liners to demonstrate the natural strength of each truck's construction. To show the Silverado's strength in a more everyday situation, Chevy pushed an empty steel toolbox, which it says weighed 28 pounds, over the rail of each truck. The Silverado received minor dents in 12 out of 14 demonstrations, and the other two times it suffered from what Chevy says is a "pinhole" puncture. In comparison, the F-150 received sizable punctures in 13 of the 14 demonstrations. Chevrolet issued a multi-video attack against the F-150 a year ago, but mostly criticized the Ford truck indirectly by taking jabs at the strength of aluminum. The bow-tie automaker has also noted it's typically more expensive to repair aluminum than steel, to which Ford has countered saying it designed the F-150 to be easily repairable. Of course, the results could have played out differently had Chevrolet used bedliners in the pickups. Just 17 percent of F-150s leave the plant with a spray-in bed liner, Ford told us. Customers can also buy aftermarket versions, although the automaker didn't mention how many of those are sold. In response to the Chevrolet ad, a Ford representative told us, "When you're the market leader for 39 years, competitors sometimes try to take shots at you with marketing stunts. The fact remains that F-150's high-strength, military grade, aluminum alloy cargo box offers the best combination of strength, durability, corrosion resistance, capability, safety and fuel efficiency ever offered in a pickup. We have built nearly a million new F-150s, and our lead over the competition continues to grow." What do you think of the new Chevrolet Silverado ad? Let us know in the comments below. Source: Chevrolet, Ford | 9 | 99,160 | autos |
For more than a year Stan Larkin lived without a heart. Instead, he carried around a 13 pound artificial one. The 25-year-old was the first patient in Michigan to test out this new medical equipment in 2014. Stan was diagnosed as a teenager with heart failure. Instead of waiting in the hospital for a transplant, the artificial heart let him leave. Last month, Stan finally had a successful heart transplant surgery. Now, doctors call him a hero for sharing his story of bravery. | 8 | 99,161 | video |
Tailored Brands shares fell as much as 17 percent after first-quarter profit and sales missed analysts' estimates, a sign the owner of Men's Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank remains mired in a slump. Excluding some items, earnings amounted to 29 cents a share in the period ended April 30, the company said in a statement Wednesday. Analysts had projected 44 cents on average, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. Sales fell 6.4 percent to $828.8 million in the period, missing the estimate of $842.3 million. Tailored Brands, formed after the merger of Men's Wearhouse and Jos. A. Bank, has struggled to align the two divisions. Last year, management abandoned Jos. A. Bank's "buy one suit, get three free"-style promotions, irking longtime shoppers. That sent the chain's sales plunging. The stock dropped as low as $12.90 in New York on Thursday, the biggest intraday swoon in six months. The shares had been up 5.8 percent this year through Wednesday, boosted by optimism that Chief Executive Officer Doug Ewert could stage a comeback. Despite the bleak quarter, business did show signs of improvement in May, the CEO said in the statement. Men's Wearhouse had a same-store sales increase in the mid-single-digit range during the month, Ewert said. Jos. A. Bank and the company's Moores chain in Canada also saw improvement, he said. "We are making progress on our transition plan for Tailored Brands," he said. "We are executing on our profit improvement program, organizational realignment, store base rationalization and cost reductions." | 3 | 99,162 | finance |
Suzuki executives are either stepping down, taking a pay cut, or not stepping into CEO position after the admission that the company lied about mpg numbers.Suzuki Motor Corporation executives admitted last month that the company had been falsifying fuel-economy tests for some of its vehicles. Today, it was announced that chairman Osamu Suzuki will not become CEO and executive vice president Osamu Honda will step down from his position at the next shareholder meeting, which takes place June 29. Executive bonuses for 2015 will also be eliminated or cut in half. The company is also promising to change its corporate culture so as to allow whistle blowers to get their messages heard. "Suzuki has a top-down culture and it's been difficult for voices from lower down to go to the management," Toshihiro Suzuki (Osamu's son) told reporters, according to Bloomberg . Both Suzuki family members will take a pay cut for the last half of 2016 (Osamu at 40 percent, Toshihiro at 30). Over 2 million Suzuki vehicles were involved in the fuel economy fakery. Japan's transport ministry is taking a closer look at company-submitted data after Mitsubishi and then Suzuki were found to have misled regulators and the public. Related Video : | 9 | 99,163 | autos |
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The Dow ended above 18,000 for the first time since April on Wednesday as declines in the dollar lifted some commodity-related shares and boosted the outlook for multinationals. The S&P 500 materials index climbed 0.6 percent following gains in copper and gold prices. Energy shares were lower despite a jump in oil prices. The benchmark S&P 500 is now about 12 points shy of its all-time closing high of 2,130.82. Helping sentiment was a weaker dollar, which tends to benefit U.S. multinationals that derive a large portion of their sales from overseas. The S&P industrials index rose 0.7 percent, the day's best-performing S&P index. Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJI) Value Over Time - Trailing Year | FindTheCompany "The weaker dollar and strength in commodity names is certainly helping to fuel the market's strength," said Michael James, managing director of equity trading at Wedbush Securities in Los Angeles. "Multinational companies are all benefiting and helping to drag the market higher." The dollar fell to a five-week low against a basket of currencies as traders reduced bets of an imminent U.S. interest rate increase. The Dow Jones Industrial Average ended up 66.77 points, or 0.37 percent, to 18,005.05, its first close above 18,000 since April 27. The S&P 500 gained 6.99 points, or 0.33 percent, to 2,119.12, while the Nasdaq Composite added 12.89 points, or 0.26 percent, to 4,974.64. Federal Reserve officials meet next Tuesday and Wednesday, and the central bank is expected to leave interest rates unchanged. Despite surprisingly weak monthly jobs data last Friday, Fed Chair Janet Yellen boosted sentiment Monday by painting a mostly upbeat picture of the economy. Bucking the recent trend in retail stocks, Lululemon Athletica Inc. shares rose 4.9 percent to $71.48 after first-quarter sales beat analyst expectations. Among the day's decliners, shares of VeriFone Systems fell 24.7 percent to $21.27 after lower-than-expected earnings and said it intends to reduce headcount and conduct strategic review to address underperforming businesses. About 6.5 billion shares changed hands on U.S. exchanges, below the 6.8 billion daily average for the past 20 trading days, according to Thomson Reuters data. Advancing issues outnumbered declining ones on the NYSE by 2,034 to 981, for a 2.07-to-1 ratio on the upside; on the Nasdaq, 1,844 issues rose and 980 fell for a 1.88-to-1 ratio favoring advancers. The S&P 500 posted 53 new 52-week highs and no new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 106 new highs and 24 new lows. | 3 | 99,165 | finance |
ABOARD THE USS HARRY S. TRUMAN This 20-story-tall aircraft carrier with a crew of 5,000 made an unplanned diversion from the Gulf to the eastern Mediterranean last week a quick pivot intended to send a clear message to Russia. The massive ship serves as a launching point for a near-constant barrage of airstrikes on Islamic State targets in Iraq and Syria. Since November, it has accounted for a little more than half of the total sorties flown over those two countries by the U.S. military. Rear Adm. Bret Batchelder, the highest-ranking officer on the carrier, told visiting reporters this week that moving the "capital ship" of the U.S. Navy from the Gulf through the Suez Canal is a flexing of muscle meant to reassure North Atlantic Treaty Organization allies of the American commitment to maintaining the balance of naval power in the Mediterranean. "It is a demonstration of capability. That's for sure," he said. "There are undoubtedly folks who are watching that and this is just a graphic representation of what we're capable of." The repositioning of the USS Harry S. Truman provides a window into American military strategy at a time when Russia has asserted itself aggressively in the region, using its navy and air force to turn the tide of the five-year Syria conflict in favor of President Bashar al-Assad. The U.S. has shown a willingness to use powerful Navy vessels to make provocative political statements, as it did in 2015 when it sailed a destroyer through the South China Sea at the height of tensions with Beijing over China's territorial claims there. A military official in Washington said the Truman's shift was a signal to Moscow and a demonstration of the Navy's operational flexibility and reach. The ship is operating in the U.S. European Command's area of responsibility while conducting airstrikes inside Iraq and Syria which fall under another combatant command, U.S. Central Command. This demonstrates the U.S. Navy can be agile and adaptive, the official said. "It provides some needed presence in the Med to check…the Russians," the official said. "The unpredictability of what we did with Truman kind of makes them think twice." Russia has maintained a contingent of about 10 to 15 ships in the Mediterranean for three years because of the conflict in Syria. In March, state media said the country's sole aircraft carrier would be sent to join those ships by summer. Russian and U.S. aims in the Syrian war aren't entirely at odds. Moscow and its Syrian regime allies, like the U.S.-led coalition, are all battling Islamic State. The official and Adm. Batchelder said the ship's position in the Mediterranean could make it a vital asset if the U.S. and its allies were to begin operations against Islamic State in Libya. The U.S. is contemplating operations in the oil-rich North African country. On the ship's 4.5-acre flight deck, sailors and airmen busied themselves with launching and landing F-18 class jet fighters. The carrier, one of 10 in the Navy's fleet, is capable of catapulting an aircraft off the deck every 40 seconds. The vessel has been a workhorse in operations against Islamic State in Syria and Iraq since it joined the effort in November, launching seven-hour close-air-support missions several times a day. Planes from the carrier conducted 52 strikes in Iraq and Syria from Friday through Tuesday. The 75-plane fleet assigned to the ship responds to calls from allies on the ground for airstrikes. Starting in the early morning and lasting well into the night, F/A-18 jet fighters and E-2C Hawkeye surveillance planes take off using a steam-powered catapult to slingshot them off the short runway. Capt. David Little, commander of the air squadrons, said his fleet has been active recently over Fallujah, where Iraq's military and allied militia forces have been engaged in an intense battle to uproot Islamic State from one of the first cities it occupied. Capt. Little declined to identify specific targets, but said the Truman's airborne fleet has focused its firepower on Islamic State's ability to wage war and he rattled off a list of the types of facilities the jet fighters have struck based on intelligence provided by partners on the ground. "Where they store money, the oil refineries they steal the money from, the banks where they store and hide money, the factories where they produce vehicle-borne [improvised explosive devices]," he said. Write to Tamer El-Ghobashy at tamer.el-ghobashy@wsj.com | 5 | 99,166 | news |
WASHINGTON Hillary Clinton opened her general election campaign against Donald Trump on Wednesday by accusing him of behaving like a "demagogue," likening his attacks on judges, the media, his opponents and their families to dark moments in world history. "It's classic behavior by a demagogue," she said in an telephone interview with The Associated Press. "We've seen it many, many places and times in the world, and that's why I think it's so dangerous." The presumptive Democratic nominee, who declared victory in her race against Vermont Sen. Bernie Sanders on Tuesday, a day after reaching the number of delegates needed to claim the nomination, seemed to wonder during the interview whether Trump's candidacy was little more than an elaborate political stunt. "I don't know if this is just, you know, political gamesmanship that he thinks plays to the lowest common denominator, but whatever the reason for it is, it's wrong and it should not be tolerated by anybody," she said. But even as she questioned the sincerity of the real estate mogul's rhetoric, Clinton said voters need to take his words seriously and called them evidence that he is untrustworthy, unqualified and unprepared for the rigors of the White House. While the two candidates have never been personally close, their political and financial circles have occasionally overlapped over the years especially during Clinton's time as a senator from New York, Trump's home state. Clinton and her husband, former president Bill Clinton, attended Trump's third wedding in 2005, and she said later that she thought Trump was "always entertaining." But Clinton expressed surprise at what she described as the billionaire's descent into "conspiracy theories" in recent years. "He always had opinions which he freely expressed," she said. "I never really ever had any information about him engaging in bigotry and prejudice until he took up the cause of the birthers against President Obama, which is really so bizarre," she added, with an incredulous laugh. Clinton and Democrats supporting her campaign are attempting to cast Trump as a ruthless con artist who is tricking voters in the same way he duped prospective students into enrolling into his now-defunct Trump University, a business that offered real estate seminars. It's an argument Clinton and her aides believe will appeal not only to Democrats, but independent voters and even some Republicans worried about how Trump would manage the nation's economy and foreign affairs. While stopping short of calling Trump a racist for his recent comments about the federal judge overseeing a class-action lawsuit against Trump University, Clinton said her rival has a "very unfortunate and divisive tendency to attack all kind of Americans." While Clinton seeks to paint Trump as a dangerous huckster, he has spent the past several weeks since claiming the Republican nomination working to define her candidacy. Trump calls Clinton by the nickname "Crooked Hillary" and often says she belongs behind bars for her use of a private email account and server during her time as secretary of state. "The Clintons have turned the politics of personal enrichment into an art form for themselves," Trump said Tuesday as he won the final five GOP primary elections. "They've made hundreds of millions of dollars selling access, selling favors, selling government contracts, and I mean hundreds of millions of dollars." Trump promised to deliver a speech next week focusing on "the Clintons." He's also tried to re-ignite past scandals that dogged Bill Clinton's administration, including his impeachment trial and the Whitewater land deal in his native Arkansas. Trump has met with Ed Klein, one of Clinton's most strident critics and the author of books spreading discredited rumors about her marriage. Another influence, GOP consultant Roger Stone, is known for peddling conspiracy theories about the Clintons. There is speculation that political strategist Dick Morris, a former Clinton adviser turned adversary, may also join his campaign. Clinton said she is unconcerned with all of it. "I really don't pay a lot of attention to his efforts to attack me personally," she said. "I don't intend to respond to them because this is his, this is his modus operandi." Instead, Clinton said she is banking on voters turning to her because of her comparative policy depth, arguing that a frustrated electorate is seeking "specific policies" more than "catchy soundbites" and "throwing slogans around." For example, when asked Wednesday about the upcoming Summer Olympics in Brazil, she offered a lengthy assessment of the public health crisis caused by the Zika virus. While Clinton said it was probably too late to cancel the Rio de Janeiro Games, as some public health officials have urged, she described the situation as "deeply distressing." "It's really a serious public threat health and I don't know that we've heard the last word about the advice about whether people or certain kinds of people should go to Rio or not," she said. "This is not just about Rio and the Olympics, this is about a potential outbreak and epidemic." After calling on Democrats to unify around her candidacy, Clinton said she had no regrets about her campaign against Sanders. She wouldn't offer any hints of what kinds of concessions her campaign might be willing to give the Vermont senator in the party platform. The two campaigns and the Democratic National Committee are beginning the process of drafting the policy on which Democrats are to rally around in the fall election. "I feel very good about the campaign we ran," she said. "It's time that we move forward and unite the party." ___ Follow Lisa Lerer on Twitter at: http://twitter.com/llerer | 5 | 99,167 | news |
Pebble made health tracking a priority with the launch of its Kickstarter for the Pebble Core, Pebble 2, and Time 2. Yesterday, it updated its Health app to make it more accurate , and today, the company is releasing two of its fitness algorithms to the public along with a mood-tracking app. One algorithm helps detect motion and the second counts steps. You can read all the technical details in this Medium post . Nathaniel Stockham, a Stanford PhD student and Pebble collaborator, says he made the algorithms available to "encourage the use of a standard set of measures." Other fitness wearable companies, like Fitbit, haven't released their algorithms. Pebble's work with Stanford goes deeper than its algorithms. The company's also coordinating with the university to launch its new mood-logging Happiness app . The app operates in one-week cycles where it'll prompt users to rate their mood and energy level every day. It'll also ask for some details about who they're with, where they are, and what activities they've done recently. Pebble then aggregates that data into an emailed report. The company says it won't use or share any provided data beyond the app, but could analyze it in aggregate. Some Pebble employees tried it out and claim it helped them make tangible changes in their life, like socializing more with coworkers. All of Pebble's moves taken together suggest the company is really serious about its fitness-tracking ambitions. While other mood trackers exist, as well as health apps and wearables, Pebble appears to want to be the most open and out about its endeavors. Or maybe it just wants everyone to use its standard when developing apps. | 3 | 99,168 | finance |
When Donald Trump flatly denied that he posed as public-relations man John Miller in a 1991 phone interview, we asked a speech scientist at Carnegie Mellon University to analyze the voice on the tape and to compare it to an interview of Trump from around the same time. Her conclusion: "John Miller" is Trump. "Same person," said Rita Singh, a researcher at Carnegie Mellon, who compared the 1991 phone interview of "John Miller" to a TV interview with Donald Trump by CBS' Connie Chung. "Several micro-sections of his voice in the John Miller tape match the corresponding micro-sections in his Connie Chung interview from 1990." The Washington Post published a recording of a 1991 People magazine interview with "John Miller" in a May 13 article that ran under the headline "Donald Trump masqueraded as publicist to brag about himself." The Post claimed Trump conducted interviews in the 1980s and '90s while posing as "John Miller" or "John Barron" "public-relations men who sound precisely like Trump himself who indeed are Trump, masquerading as an unusually helpful and boastful advocate for himself, according to the journalists and several of Trump's top aides." Moreover, the reporter who conducted the People interview says Trump later admitted as much to her at the time, saying it was "a joke that went awry." The reporter, Sue Carswell, reported the ruse in a July 1991 People story that ran under the headline "Trump Says Goodbye Marla, Hello Carla: And a mysterious PR man who sounds just like Donald calls to spread the story." You can read a transcript of the phone conversation here. But when Trump was confronted about the 25-year-old recording on the " Today" show on May 13 , Trump flatly denied that it was him. "No, I don't know anything about it," Trump said. "You're telling me about it for the first time and it doesn't sound like my voice at all. I have many, many people that are trying to imitate my voice and you can imagine that. This sounds like one of these scams, one of the many scams. It doesn't sound like me." Trump was asked if he regularly posed as his own PR man for phone interviews, as the Post alleged. "No, and it was not me on the phone," Trump said. "It was not me on the phone. And it doesn't sound like me on the phone, I will tell you that. And it was not me on the phone." Jimmy Kimmel, host of ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," also raised the issue of the recording during an interview on May 25. "It didn't sound like me, though, really," Trump said. "You think that sounded like me?" "Yeah," Kimmel said emphatically, to laughter, and later added, "If it was you, I think it was a very funny thing to do, to call a guy and take him through the ringer like that." Trump admitted that he sometimes has used aliases when purchasing real estate, explaining that if he used his real name, "you had to pay more money for the land." Trump said one of the names he used was "John Barron." Using aliases in the real estate business is common, Trump said, to prevent sellers from inflating the asking price. Indeed, it is well-documented that Walt Disney used fake names to buy up land in Florida that would become Walt Disney World. We don't take any position on Trump's use of an alias, but the fact is that he denied using one while being interviewed by People magazine in 1991 even though there is evidence that it was indeed him. Voice Analysis We asked Rita Singh, a speech scientist at Carnegie Mellon University, to analyze the voice on the tape. She then compared it to a recording of an interview of Trump with Connie Chung in 1990. Singh is part of a team at Carnegie Mellon using a cutting-edge voice profiling technique called micro-articulometry. At various conferences this year, Singh unveiled a series of peer-reviewed papers : two in Cyprus in March; one in Croatia in May; and one at the 2016 IEEE International Symposium on Technologies for Homeland Security in Waltham, Massachusetts, in May. But the short version is this: Speech is produced when air from the lungs passes through the vocal tract. Different speech sounds are produced by controlling the airflow, vibration of the vocal folds, and the position of articulators like the jaw, tongue and lips, Singh explained. As we speak, sounds follow one another rapidly. In going from one sound to the next, the size, shape and agility of all of these elements come into play. For example, when a sound that does not require the vocal folds to vibrate is followed by a sound that does, there is a time lag (of the order of milliseconds) between the two states. "Much like the pickup on your car when you hit the accelerator," Singh said. Here's how it is explained in a paper written by Singh and Eduard Hovy , both of Carnegie Mellon, and Joseph Keshet of Bar Ilan University in Israel: "The term articulometry itself conventionally refers to the measurement of the movements, dimensions and positions of the articulators in the human vocal tract during the process of speech production." "That is very characteristic of people," said Singh, who for two years has been working with federal investigators at Homeland Security on voice-based crimes, such as hoax callers reporting fake threats. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon fragment speech into tiny sections, on the order of fractions of a second. From these they measure many different micro-scale properties of sounds and of transitions between sounds. Singh likened these micro-properties to bar codes. "And if those bar codes match," she said, "there is a very high probability that it's the same person." "No matter how much you try to change or disguise your voice, many things about your voice are out of your voluntary control, you cannot change them," Singh said. And so, "matching these helps us determine if someone is impersonating a speaker or not." Comparing on a micro level the speech of "John Miller" to that of Trump in the Connie Chung interview showed four matching micro properties. That's enough to convince Singh it was Trump in both interviews. James Baker , who founded Dragon Systems, a pioneer in speech recognition technology, said Singh's technique is "scientifically valid" and her work is performed with proper scientific method. "Absolutely it is a quality scientific technique," Baker said. Baker said he too heard the tape of "John Miller" and based on voice quality and his 50 years of experience in the speech recognition field, he was convinced it was Trump as well. "Could you find someone to imitate his voice good enough to fool me? Yes," Baker said. But you'd have to then assume the alleged PR person was trying to imitate Trump, and, he noted, "No one's saying that it's someone trying to be Donald Trump." Singh, using her advanced computer-enhanced techniques, would be able to analyze that much more reliably, he said. "[Singh's] work is absolutely very solid for that," he said. Still, he said, no current technology can be certified as 100 percent reliable. The probability of her being wrong is not absolute zero, he said, but "informally" he believes it is less than 1 percent. Singh has worked in the field of speech and audio processing for 18 years, and has been at Carnegie Mellon since 2009. In the early 2000s, she worked for three years as a visiting scientist in the Spoken Language Systems Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and in 2007 was the first employee of the Human Language Technology Center of Excellence at Johns Hopkins University. She is the associate editor of the IEEE Signal Processing Letters , a monthly publication "designed to provide rapid dissemination of original, cutting-edge ideas and timely, significant contributions in signal, image, speech, language and audio processing." Singh herself cautioned that audio signal processing has not been perfected yet and that the scientific confidence level is not fully 100 percent. But the data and her experience leave no doubt. "I am convinced it is the same person," Singh said. "There is no doubt in my mind about it." https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/dd728864-d6b0-412a-8172-1292ae2dff7c | 5 | 99,169 | news |
Donald Trump falsely claimed Iran is "taking over the oil" in Iraq. Experts told us Iran does not control any Iraqi oil fields, and we could find no evidence of it. In fact, despite its political instability, Iraq produced and exported a record amount of crude oil last year, and it has reclaimed smaller oil fields in northern Iraq that had been taken by the terrorist Islamic State group , also known as the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria or ISIS. "Iraq's oil is still the property of the people of Iraq," said Jim Krane , a fellow at the Center for Energy Studies at Rice University who is an expert in geopolitical aspects of energy. Trump spoke about Iraq on CNN's " State of the Union ," where he once again claimed without evidence that he opposed the Iraq war before it started because he felt it would destabilize the Middle East. "I was against it from before it started," Trump said. As we've written , there is no public record of his opposition before the war started March 19, 2003. In fact, Trump is on record as giving a halfhearted endorsement for going to war with Iraq six months before it started. ("Yeah, I guess so," he said when asked by radio personality Howard Stern.) Our timeline of Trump's comments on the war show he was an early critic once the war started, but on the grounds that it was financially wasteful not because it would upset the balance of power in the Middle East. Anchor Jake Tapper challenged Trump to produce the evidence of his pre-war opposition. Trump responded by saying, "I think there is evidence. I will see if I can get it." It was in this context that Trump made his claim that Iran is "taking over the oil" in Iraq. Trump, June 5 : So, I was against the war a long time ago, and it destabilized the Middle East. And that's exactly what I said was going to happen. I also said Iran will take over Iraq, because we ruined the balance of those two militarily. We destroyed we knocked out one of the two balancing prongs. And Iran is taking as sure as you're sitting there, Iran is taking over Iraq. They're taking over the oil. They're taking over everything. Trump's campaign did not respond when we asked it to explain Trump's comments. It may be that he was talking about what may happen in the future, but Trump used the present tense that "Iran is taking over Iraq" and that "they're taking over the oil" and none of that is happening, experts tell us. We reached out to Middle East experts to ask about Iran-Iraq relations in general and Iraqi oil. In general, Ken Pollack, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution's Center for Middle East Policy, told us Trump's comments that "Iran is taking over Iraq" are "exaggerated by any measure." It's true that Iran's influence increased "dramatically" in 2014 when "Iran rushed in to help defend Baghdad" from ISIS, Pollack said, as Iran-backed militias took the lead in that fight. "All across Baghdad you saw billboards thanking Iran, thanking Ayatollah Khamenei and thanking the Revolutionary Guards," Pollack said. "And in that period, Iran was the most influential power in Iraq by far, but even then it was limited." However, Iran's influence has begun to wane more recently as the U.S. has reasserted itself in Iraq, Pollack said. "In recent months, Iran's influence has diminished again pretty noticeably, and American influence has rebounded because the military aid being provided by the United States is having a much greater impact on the battlefield than that provided by Iran and because the U.S. is now helping Iraq secure billions of dollars in loans and desperately needed financial aid to help them deal with their budget crisis," Pollack said. "So paradoxically, Trump's statement comes when U.S. influence in Iraq was once again rising, at the expense of Iranian influence, although neither side truly controls Iraq." The concern, as expressed in a Jan. 8 article in The Telegraph , is that the Iranian-backed militias fighting ISIS in Iraq could attempt to take control of Iraq if and when ISIS is defeated. Martin E. Dempsey, then-chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told the Senate Foreign Relations Committee in March 2015 that "the activities of the Iranians to support the Iraqi Security Forces is a positive thing" if it does not worsen sectarian tensions. "But we are all concerned about what happens after the drums stop beating and ISIL is defeated, and whether the government of Iraq will remain on a path to provide an inclusive government for all of the various groups within it," Dempsey said. Pollack said that "would be disastrous" if the Iranian-backed militias fighting ISIS in Iraq could attempt to take control of Iraq if and when ISIS is defeated. "But we are still a long way from that," he said. As for now, Pollack said he doesn't know what Trump is talking about when the presumptive Republican presidential nominee says Iran is "taking over the oil" from Iraq. "Iran is not taking over any Iraqi oil fields," Pollack wrote to us in an email. "If it means that Iran has its personnel there running them, then NO. If it means they are taking the oil and selling [it] themselves, then again, NO. None of that is happening." Krane, of Rice University, agreed that the current instability in Iraq doesn't mean that Iran is "taking over the oil" in Iraq, as Trump claimed. "The fact that there is Iranian influence in neighboring Iraq is a long way from Iranian control over the Iraqi oil sector," Krane said. The country has contracts with international oil firms mostly big-name companies such as Shell, BP and Gazprom to maintain and operate the oil fields, Krane said. And it has been successful. Iraq last year set a record for oil production and exports, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration . Krane said he is not even aware of any Iranian companies working in Iraqi oil production. "Iraq's oil is still the property of the people of Iraq. It is produced by Iraqi and international firms, often under production sharing agreements," Krane said. "To my knowledge, there are no Iranian firms directly involved in Iraqi oil production. It is possible that Iran-based contractors are working in the Iraqi energy sector, but if they did, they would be in minor roles alongside firms from many other countries including the United States." Madeleine Moreau , a senior analyst for Global Risk Insights who specializes in investment risk in the Middle East, recalled that for a few days in December 2009 "Iran briefly occupied the Fakka oil field in Maysan province," in southeastern Iraq. But, she said, Iran was "forced to back off because it angered a strong contingent of Iraq's population." Moreau said she knows of no "hard evidence" that Iran has any control of Iraqi oil not even after the Iran-backed militias helped Iraq last fall to recapture the Baiji oil field north of Baghdad. "Moving forward, I would argue that the recent high oil production rates in Iraq, likely at Iran's expense, has the potential to heighten tensions between the two countries in the longer run," Moreau said. "But for now, I think Iran's 'priorities of influence' in Iraq is current military operations to recapture ISIL-held territories and the current political situation." Trump would be right to say that Iran has influence in Iraq, and he is free to express his opinion that Iran may attempt to take control of Iraq in the future. But there's no evidence that Iran is "taking over the oil" in Iraq. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/2ef2e495-d2ec-434f-800a-6e4dda185dad | 5 | 99,170 | news |
Every afternoon we compile the most important info Delish readers need to know-from breaking news and hazardous recalls to trending food stunts and new menu items at your favorite restaurants. Rold Gold pretzels recalled for peanut contamination One of the most popular pretzel brands, Rold Gold, has just issued a massive recall after its flour was contaminated with peanuts. The undeclared allergen affects Rold Gold Tiny Twists, Rold Gold Thins, Rold Gold Sticks, and Rold Gold Honey Wheat Braided with the "guaranteed fresh" date between June 28, 2016 and August 23, 2016. More detailed information is available on the FDA website . Research finds e.coli can survive after cooking In scary AF news, researchers have discovered that some strains of e. coli can live on after cooking burgers to 160 degrees F, Food Safety News reports . Microbiologists at the University of Alberta and China's Huazhong Agricultural University found that, of the 29 strains they tested, 2 percent were found to be heat resistant though they were all non-pathogenic, which means they aren't a danger to human health. However, these results mean that pathogenic strains could also become resistent to heat in the future. Instagram is losing its mind over galaxy donuts The new trendy treat is totally putting rainbow everything to shame. It seems this outer-space styling began with the amazing cosmic cake we covered a couple months ago. It was a total intergalactic stunner-especially once you cut into it. And now these beautifully swirled rings are following suit. 💫💫 Vegan Galaxy Donuts ✨✨This is as far as my procrastination took me today - making galactic treats for my sick boyfriend 😷) Simple Donut Recipe: 1 cup all-purpose flour 1/2 cup raw cane sugar 1 1/2 tsp baking powder 1/4 tsp salt 1/4 tsp nutmeg pinch of cinnamon 1/2 cup soy milk 1 tsp apple cider vinegar 1 tsp pure vanilla extract with seeds 1 tbsp ground flaxseed mixed with 3 tbsp water 1/4 cup vegan margarine (Nuttelex or Earthbalance) 1. Preheat the oven to 180 and grease a donut tray. 2. In a mixing bowl, whisk together the dry ingredients. 3. Mix together the soy milk and apple cider vinegar and let it sit for a few minutes until it thickens. 4. In a small saucepan, melt the soy milk, vanilla, flaxseed (the egg replacer) and margarine over a low heat until the butter has just melted (Do not let it boil/simmer) 5. Combine both wet and dry ingredients until a soft dough forms. 6. Using a teaspoon, spoon the mixture evenly into the donut holes, flattening out with your finger for best results. 7. Bake for 12 minutes. They are done once they have firmed up and a toothpick comes out clean (they don't need to 'brown') 8. Pop them out of the moulds and then allow to cool completely before icing. GALAXY ICING: 2-3 tbsp melted coconut oil 2-3 tbsp soy milk 1 2/3 - 2 cups powdered sugar Vegan natural food dye (Red and Blue) 1. Whisk together the melted coconut oil and soy milk and slowly begin to whisk in the powdered sugar until you reach your desired consistency. Adjust liquids if you need to. 2. To achieve the 'galaxy' effect: (This is quite hard to explain, but if you've ever done marbling as a kid using coloured dye it is essentially the same thing) 3. Using small separate bowls I worked with a little bit of icing at a time and I simply dispersed drops of vegan friendly food dye around the white icing, swirling with a spoon. Adjust the colours/saturation as you'd like. 4. Simply dip and twirl a donut halfway into the icing and gently slide it out and you'll get that 'galaxy effect' ;) 5. Dusted with vegan edible food glitter. Inspired by @h.rebel ✨ A photo posted by SAM ☾ MELBOURNE (@sobeautifullyraw) on May 30, 2016 at 1:28am PDT Need these 😍@sobeautifullyraw #vegansdonuts #foodie #galaxydonut #foodporn #instafood #nutritionstudent #nutrition #veganfood #beautifulfood A photo posted by Amber Davey (@eatwithamber_) on Jun 8, 2016 at 2:59am PDT How cool are these galaxy doughnuts? 🍩 🌌 (📷: @h.rebel) via @huffpostcaliving #galaxydonut #doughnuts #donuts #donut #inspiration #breakfastofchampions #breakfasts #cakes #cake #cakeforbreakfast #sweetbreakfast #sweettooth #doughnuttime #doughnutplant A photo posted by The Huffington Post Canada (@huffpostcanada) on May 17, 2016 at 6:14pm PDT You have to watch this baby lose his mind over food Seriously, you've never seen anyone more excited about meals arriving at the table (and sometimes even just a canister of maple syrup) than this insanely adorable baby. Your daily dose of food porn Pretty sure we could all live solely off of crispy fried chicken with a side of honey for dipping. You know I like my chicken fried #Delish #DamnThatsDelish A photo posted by Delish (@delish) on Jun 7, 2016 at 10:15am PDT Follow Delish on Instagram . | 0 | 99,171 | foodanddrink |
Following days of reports that Amber Heard was arrested for domestic abuse against an ex-girlfriend, Tasya van Ree , in 2009, van Ree has responded, saying Heard was "wrongfully accused." "In 2009, Amber was wrongfully accused for an incident that was misinterpreted and over-sensationalized by two individuals in a power position," said a statement van Ree released on Wednesday. "I recount hints of misogynistic attitudes toward us which later appeared to be homophobic when they found out we were domestic partners and not just 'friends.' Charges were quickly dropped and she was released moments later. It's disheartening that Amber's integrity and story are being questioned yet again. Amber is a brilliant, honest and beautiful woman and I have the utmost respect for her. We shared 5 wonderful years together and remain close to this day." TMZ posted a report on Tuesday claiming that Heard, who recently accused Depp of domestic violence, was herself arrested for domestic violence in a 2009 incident. The report said that, on Sept. 14, 2009, at the Seattle-Tacoma International Airport, Heard had grabbed and hit photographer van Ree in the arm. The TMZ report claims that Heard was arrested and booked for misdemeanor domestic violence, and appeared in court the next day. The prosecutor, however, reportedly let Heard go with a warning because both women lived in California at the time. Heard accused Depp of domestic abuse last month, and has been granted a restraining order against him . Los Angeles police are currently investigating the allegations. The actress released a photo of herself with a bruised face after an alleged incident, and People magazine released several more photos of Heard with bruises as well. Police responded to a domestic dispute on May 21, though Heard did not file a criminal report. The actress described in court papers another incident when Depp allegedly grabbed her by the hair and shoved her to the floor at her 30th birthday party. She also detailed Depp's history of drug and alcohol abuse in the court documents. Heard filed for divorce from Depp on May 23 after 15 months of marriage. | 6 | 99,172 | entertainment |
Adidas made a major spelling goof in its Copa America marketing campaign for Colombia's national team. The advertisements were pulled this week after social media backlash from the company's misspelling, which labeled the country "Columbia." "We value our partnership with the Colombian Football Federation and apologize for our mistake," Adidas said in a statement . "We removed these graphics and are quickly installing new versions today." Adidas has sponsored Colombia, ranked No. 3 in the world, since 2011. Dear @adidas it is Colombia not Columbia... Thank you pic.twitter.com/6XfACSWk9e astrid rivera (@astriddrivera) June 7, 2016 Colombia is 2 0 and leads Group A with one more group stage match to play, against Costa Rica. | 1 | 99,173 | sports |
Even if you're not a professional baker, chances are you get that itch to whip up something delicious in the kitchen every now and again. But how many of us keep hardback recipes books at home anymore? The fabulous thing about the 21st century is that inspiration is only a mouse click away. Artfully created blog posts are aplenty nowadays, and our favorite bloggers have become experts on how to virtually walk us step-by-step through making Pinterest-worthy baked goods. What a wonderful time to be alive. So next time you get that baking itch (or just want to ogle some food porn), refer to these creative baking bloggers. You won't be sorry. 1. Bakerella I love the catchy name of her blog Bakerella and all the delicious treats and recipes she shares. Blog author Angie is actually the creator of cupcake pops. She provides dozens of recipes and variations to the bite-size snack and also has recipes for everything from cakes and pies to brownies and cheesecakes. Her blog is full of fantastic photos showcasing her sweet treats and superb creativity. She even has a book Cake Pops: Tips, Tricks, and Recipes for More Than 40 Irresistible Treats featuring all things cake pops. Take a look you'll be glad you did. Next up: SprinkleBakes 2. SprinkleBakes Heather, author of SprinkleBakes , comes from a background of fine arts and painting, and you can tell she lets her creativity shine throughout all of her recipes. Here she shares her own unique original recipes, family recipes and adaptations of her favorite recipes. Basically she's got it all from coconut cappuccino muffins to pecan pie taffy to blue velvet cupcakes (who says they have to be red?). She released a book SprinkleBakes: Dessert Recipes to Inspire Your Inner Artist showcasing her best, most creative recipes. If you're looking for creative inspiration, SprinkleBakes is the blog for you. 3. Lovin' from the Oven A personal favorite, Lovin' from the Oven is a blog not just of baked goods but of easy, delicious meals too. Not to take away from the baking blog author Kim does share more than 100 unique cookie recipes but we like that she mixes it up. She also shares real-life stories in between all her beautiful photographs of mouthwatering treats. If you're looking for a blog of daily desserts and easy recipes, plus looking to get to know a wonderful person, Kim's blog is for you. Next up: Joy the Baker 4. Joy the Baker Joy the Baker has been blogging for many years now, so her recipe index is full. She's got everything from brown butter brûléed doughnut holes (pictured above) and chai-spiced cinnamon rolls to gluten-free chocolate-peanut butter pudding and vegan dark chocolate-dipped sugar cones. Her blog truly meets every type of eater's needs, and she has a book Joy the Baker Cookbook . And any blogger that has a specific section designated for recipes containing booze is fine by me. 5. Brown Eyed Baker Michelle of Brown Eyed Baker says it's perfectly acceptable to eat dessert first, and I couldn't agree more. Her most popular recipes include homemade Snickers (yum!), Cherry Coke float cupcakes, grasshopper mint chocolate bark and a layered red velvet cheesecake. In addition to her one-of-a-kind baked goods, she shares recipes for meals too, such as Cajun shrimp macaroni and cheese . Michelle is self-taught, making her recipes doable for both novice and expert bakers alike, so don't be afraid to tackle a recipe or two of hers. Next up: Love, Cake 6. Love, Cake Rustic yet elegant is the perfect way to describe Love, Cake's recipe roster. From the bronzed crust of a sour cherry-almond pie overflowing with juices to the liberal dusting of powdered sugar on an apricot-custard cake , the baked goods on this blog would be at home in both a New England B&B and a SoCal bistro. Sam, the mastermind behind the recipes, is currently working on a cookbook, but she has also worked as a food editor for Good Housekeeping , Fine Cooking and Everyday Food ; basically, she knows her stuff. Don't know where to start? Check out the cake recipes after all, cake is the blog's namesake. 7. Sally's Baking Addiction Focusing on classic and comforting recipes often inspired by her family's favorites, Sally of Sally's Baking Addiction definitely knows her way around the kitchen. The author of two cookbooks, Sally doesn't include just recipes on her blog but also writes posts on mastering essential baking techniques and understanding ingredients. From seasonal recipes like caramel apple cinnamon scones to tutorials on making the best buttery, flaky pie crust , Sally's Baking Addiction is not to be missed. Next up: Smitten Kitchen 8. Smitten Kitchen If you're looking for the perfect blend of home-style baking and modern recipes, Smitten Kitchen is the blog for you. With tons of recipes for everything from blood orange olive oil cake to dulce de leche cheesecake squares , blogger Deb Perelman has something for every sort of sweet tooth. Her savory recipes are fantastic too, but the complex yet homey desserts she churns out are what makes this one of our favorite baking blogs. 9. The Sugar Hit The flavor-packed recipes on Sarah Coates' blog The Sugar Hit are as fun to read as they are to make thanks to the punchy, comic book-inspired graphics and colorful food photography on her site. Sarah owns more than 250 cookbooks (and is an author herself), and her encyclopedic cooking knowledge is on full display on her blog, where fancy recipes like almond and apple tarte fine with rum caramel intermingle with cozy basics like homemade Pop-Tarts . If you love baking as much as Sarah does, then her blog will not disappoint. Next up: Apt. 2B Baking Co. 10. Apt. 2B Baking Co. Seasonal, fruit-focused desserts are the star of Apt. 2B Baking Co. You won't believe how decadent produce can be until you see author and photographer Yossy Arefi's recipes for plum-macaroon cake , pretty little summer fruit cakes and blackberry-rhubarb pie . What sets Yossy's photography apart from other bloggers? She still shoots with film, using her trusty Pentax camera, and the results are absolutely gorgeous. 11. Desserts with Benefits Not only are Desserts with Benefits ' recipes obsession-worthy (hello, banana toffee chocolate pie ? Yes, please!), but they're also drum roll healthy. That's right, Jessica (the mastermind behind the blog) uses good-for-you ingredients to make treats we can all feel great about eating. Her recipe index also categorizes all of her creations by diet, so if you have any gluten, egg, or sugar restrictions you can rest easy. Can't be that with a stick. Additional reporting by Justina Huddleston | 0 | 99,174 | foodanddrink |
LOS ANGELES As shark sightings continued to close Orange County beaches this week, a woman who was bitten by a shark off the California coast last month described to the media what happened. Maria Korcsmaros, a 52-year-old personal trainer and aerobics instructor from Corona, was severely bitten by a shark on May 29 and has spent the last several days recovering. "It just felt like piercing teeth and I was like, 'Oh, my God, I think that was a shark," she told KTLA -TV in an interview. "When it bit down, it encountered my ribs and my pelvis and it wasn't able to puncture any major organs because of that,." Speaking to the Orange County Register, she added: "I could feel the warm, gushing blood, but I couldn't breathe. I knew my arm was still there because I could feel the tourniquet around it." Doctors say she's expected to make a full recovery, crediting her exceptional physical fitness.. Korcsmaros had multiple tooth marks on her right side, extending from her shoulder in a semicircular pattern to her lower pelvis. She also had lacerations on her right arm, an open chest wound and multiple rib fractures and had lost about a liter of blood, doctors said. Korcsmaros is recovering at the hospital and taking antibiotics to help stave off any infection. Korcsmaros, a mother of three, is a seasoned athlete who has competed in various triathlons, including an Ironman competition in 2008. For the second day in a row, two miles of beaches in Orange County were closed to swimmers Monday afternoon after a cluster of large sharks was spotted near the shore, authorities said. A police helicopter was conducting a routine flyover of the coast about 3:30 p.m. when officials spotted three sharks near Anderson Street, close to the border between Huntington Beach and Seal Beach, according to Lt. Claude Panis with the Huntington Beach Fire Department's Marine Safety Division. The sharks were 10 to 12 feet long and about 50 yards from shore, Panis said. | 5 | 99,175 | news |
Hillary Clinton through the years. Primary night Hillary Clinton has won enough delegates to earn the presumptive nomination of the Democratic Party. Here's a look back at the storied life of the woman making "herstory" in America right now in her bid to become first female president of the United States. Wellesley yearbook Hillary's Wellesley yearbook photo, circa 1965. The Clintons in college Hillary and Bill together at Wellesley, circa 1965. Hillary and Bill's wedding Hillary and Bill on their wedding day in 1975. Hillary with baby Chelsea Hillary and her daughter, Chelsea, circa 1982. The first lady Arkansas, 1983 Hillary served as the first lady of Arkansas for 12 years, from 1979 1981 and 1983 1992. The Clinton family A Clinton family photo, circa 1985. '80s black-and-white Hillary and Bill greeting people in the street, circa 1980s. The first lady in Las Vegas Hillary campaigning for Bill's re-election in Bally's Casino in 1996. A close-up Hillary in 1996. Commemorating Ramadan The first lady meets with Muslim Americans in the White House Indian Treaty Room in 1998 to commemorate the end of Ramadan. Christmas stories of Buddy and Socks Hillary reading stories to children in the White House at Christmastime, 1998. Hillary announces her candidacy Hillary announces her candidacy for the U.S. Senate in 2000. Hillary for U.S. Senate On her way to a Senate seat. Visiting a school Hillary visiting a New York school during her U.S. 2000 Senate campaign. Leaning against a wall Hillary leaning against a wall, circa 2003. Speaking to the clergy Hillary speaks to an assembled conference for clergy members at the United States Federation of Teachers building in 2006. Presidential hopeful Hillary speaking during a primary election night party in March, 2008. First town hall Hillary addressing a crowd of supporters at her first town hall meeting in 2015. Greeting young supporters Hillary speaking to a young girl in 2016. California high school rally Hillary greets supporters at a campaign rally in California in June, 2016. Hillary for America Hillary campaigning in 2016. | 4 | 99,176 | lifestyle |
One hundred illuminated drones light up Sydney Harbour with a synchronised show. | 2 | 99,177 | travel |
STOCKHOLM -- A Swedish court has ordered candy maker Mars to stop selling M&Ms in the Scandinavian country, at least not with the customary lowercase letters it uses on the packaging and on the colorful chocolates. The Svea Court of Appeal said Wednesday it ruled against Mars in a trademark dispute with Kraft Foods, which sells chocolate-covered peanuts under the Marabou brand with a single "m'' on the packaging. It said Kraft has exclusive rights to the trademark in Sweden. However, it added that using the upper-case M&Ms, as Mars does in its corporate communications, doesn't constitute a trademark infringement in Sweden. Mars said: "We have always believed no confusion exists" between the two products and that it would "assess the next steps for our beloved brand in Sweden." | 3 | 99,178 | finance |
The Guardian has found a company offering insurance policies for autonomous vehicles. Coming by Adrian Flux Insurance Services, the insurance policy for a driverless car is solely offered by the British company. The new policy is being touted as the first of it's kind by Adrian Flux, who has close to 600,000 customers. Included in the emerging policy for autonomous vehicles are coverages for loss or damage to a car caused by hacking, satellite failures affecting navigation systems, and collisions in which manual override failed to engage. | 3 | 99,179 | finance |
A Brazilian police officer of Japanese origin -- and the driving force behind high-level arrests in a government corruption investigation -- was jailed for smuggling Wednesday, according to local press. Newton Ishii, known as "the Japanese cop," gained fame for arresting dozens of well-known businessmen and politicians as part of the "Operation Car Wash" probe that began as a money laundering investigation but has since turned to the massive Petrobras fraud scandal. An appeals court convicted Ishii of smuggling charges, sentencing him to four months and three weeks for facilitating the import of smuggled goods from Paraguay, his lawyer Oswaldo de Mello Junior told the Brazilian news outlet G1. Ishii's involvement was uncovered in Operation Sucuri, an investigation into federal agents participating in illegal smuggling efforts. The federal police branch in Parana had not responded to repeated AFP confirmation requests as of noon local time. In addition to arresting prominent Brazilian figures, Ishii -- always sporting a flak jacket and dark sunglasses -- is known for taking selfies with politicans. He lept to prominence during the last carnival as revelers donned masks in his likeness, and after a song about him gained YouTube fame. Ishii also inspired an erotic novel available on Amazon titled "Arrest me, Japanese Cop!" The once-revered social media star became the laughing stock of online networks after his arrest Wednesday, with the hashtag #japonesdafederal -- "Japanese Cop" -- appearing alongside mockeries and doctored photos of the officer arresting himself. | 5 | 99,180 | news |
The very best action images from the 2016 Copa America as 16 nations battle for Copa America Centenario. Graham Zusi of the U.S. celebrates his goal against Costa Rica at Soldier Field, Chicago, Illinois, on June 7. Clint Dempsey, Jermaine Jones, Bobby Wood and Zusi were all on the scoresheet as the Stars and Stripes thrashed Costa Rica 4-0. Gyasi Zardes (L) of the U.S. shoots on goal as Costa Rica's Ronald Matarrita tires to defend on June 7. Colombia captain James Rodríguez celebrates as his teammates look on after scoring against Paraguay at Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on June 7. Colombia triumphed 2-1 courtesy of a goal apiece from Carlos Bacca and Rodríguez, while Víctor Ayala got the only goal for the losing side. Colombia's Farid Díaz (C) and Paraguay's Robert Piris (2-R) jump for the ball on June 7. Argentina midfielder Éver Banega kisses his jersey after scoring his team's second goal against Chile during their match at the Levi's Stadium, California, on June 6. Argentina went on to win the match 2-1 with Ángel Di María being the scorer of their first goal. José Pedro Fuenzalida scored a goal for Chile. Argentina s Ángel Di María shoots the ball past Chilean defenders on June 6. Panama's Blas Pérez (L) celebrates his goal against Bolivia at Camping World Stadium, Florida, on June 6. Panama triumphed 2-1 courtesy of a brace from Pérez, while Juan Carlos Arce scored the only goal for the losing team. Bolivia's Martin Smedberg-Dalence kicks the ball during the game on June 6. Mexico players celebrate a goal during their Copa America clash against Uruguay at the University of Phoenix Stadium in Glendale, Arizona, on June 5. Mexico won 3-1 courtesy of a goal each from Álvaro Pereira, Rafael Márquez and Héctor Herrera, while Diego Godín scored the solitary goal for the losing side. Mexico captain Rafael Márquez (number 4) vies for the ball with Diego Godín (L) of Uruguay on June 5. Edinson Cavani of Uruguay argues with assistant referee Milciades Saldivar during the second half of the match on June 5. Venezuelan players celebrate after scoring the opening goal during their match against Jamaica at Soldier Field Stadium in Chicago, Illinois, on June 5. Venezuela won 1-0 with a 15th minute strike from Josef Martínez. Rodolph Austin of Jamaica is sent off as Michael Hector argues with the referee on June 5. Dani Hernández of Venezuela makes a save against Jamaica on June 5. Brazil captain Dani Alves heads the ball during their Copa America Centenario opening game against Ecuador at the Rose Bowl stadium in Pasadena, California, on June 4. Ecuador's Enner Valencia (L) and Brazil midfielder Casemiro battle for the ball during the first half of the match on June 4. Brazil's Willian (L) takes a shot on goal against goalkeeper Esteban Dreer (number 12) of Ecuador during the game on June 4. Willian is carried off on a stretcher after he suffers an injury during the match against Ecuador on June 4. Brazilian defender Marquinhos heads the ball away during the match against Ecuador on June 4. Peru's players observes a moment of silence in the memory of boxer Muhammad Ali, before their game against Haiti on June 4. The match ended 1-0 in favor of Peru, following a goal from their captain Paolo Guerrero. Haiti goalkeeper Johnny Placide (R) grabs the ball above Peru forward Paolo Guerrero in the second half of the game on June 4. Peru's Paolo Guerrero (L) celebrates after scoring against Haiti on June 4. Alejandro Hohberg of Peru tries to dribble between Kim Jaggy (L) and Jean Alexandre (R) during the match on June 4. Costa Rica's Oscar Duarte (L) heads the ball against Paraguay's Nelson Valdez on June 4. Paraguay's Robert Andres Piris (L) vies for the ball with Costa Rica's Bryan Ruiz in Orlando, Florida, on June 4. Paraguay's Bruno Valdez and Costa Rica's Randall Azofeifa in action on June 4. Costa Rica's Joel Campbell (C) and Paraguay's Celso Ortiz (L) during their match on June 4. Paraguay defender Bruno Valdez (#5) kicks wide of the net as Costa Rica goalkeeper Patrick Pemberton (#18) defends in the first half on June 4. Jermaine Jones (R) of United States and Sebastian Perez (L) of Colombia go for the ball at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, USA on June 3. Colombia defend the free kick by United States defender Fabian Johnson (#23) in the first half on June 4. Sebastián Pérez of Colombia in action in the match against the at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, USA on June 3. Colombia's Edwin Cardona kicks the ball during the match against the U.S. at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, USA on June 3. United States' goalkeeper Brad Guzan in the match against Colombia at Levi's Stadium in Santa Clara, California, US on June 3. James Rodriguez (#10) of Colombia scores a penalty kick on Brad Guzan (#1) of United States on June 3. | 1 | 99,181 | sports |
Robert Griffin III has been making it habit of emphatically throwing balls away during Cleveland Browns minicamp practices, often to such an extreme that the balls on occasion either drill a 16-foot fence surrounding the practice fields or sail over it and hit houses in a nearby residential neighborhood. Why? To prove he's coachable to Hue Jackson and the rest of the Browns coaching staff, apparently. Cleveland.com's Mary Kay Cabot reports that on two occasions Tuesday RG3 airmailed to throwaway tosses over the fence, once drilling a garage. Two other times, he drilled the fence. When asked why he's putting on such a show when throwing the ball away, Griffin explained it as follows. "Just throwing it away," Griffin said Wednesday. "Coach asked me to work on those things. If he asked me to throw it away, I'm going to throw that thing as far as I can all the way away." Some of RG3's demonstrative behavior arguably could be attributed to how Mike Shanahan, his onetime coach with the Washington Redskins, suggested that he wasn't coachable and never gave up on plays. So much for that, says Griffin. "I'm just being coachable," he said. "You have to practice the way you play sliding, throwing the ball away, all those things, keeping positive downs and distances. Those are important. It seems funny throwing the ball over the fence, but it's just part of the process. You have to take everything into account." The final season of RG3's tenure with the Redskins was of course an unmitigated disaster. He was essentially cast aside by Jay Gruden and his coaching staff last season, relegated to running the scout team after he was benched in favor of Kirk Cousins. But he handled his precipitous fall down the depth chart with class and dignity, earning him praise and arguably affording him one more shot to resurrect his career with the Browns, something he isn't taking for granted as he moves on from his nightmarish final season in D.C. "The best thing you can do is be who you are and maybe some of that stuff you might have heard is true," he said. "…but a lot of that stuff can be extremely false and that's the blessing of a new opportunity with a new team to just go out and be myself and let guys make their own determination on who I am." | 1 | 99,182 | sports |
Josh Donaldson was a double short of the cycle as the Blue Jays defeated the Tigers 7-2 on Wednesday afternoon. Donaldson had three RBIs, while a fan made a sensational catch. | 1 | 99,183 | sports |
Donald Trump claimed that a federal judge presiding over a civil lawsuit against the defunct Trump University is a "member of a club or society very strongly pro-Mexican." That's an inaccurate description of a group for Latino lawyers and law students in San Diego. "We have no pro-Mexico agenda," said Luis Osuna , president of the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association. "We are here to help Latino law students and lawyers." Trump has said that U.S. District Judge Gonzalo Curiel , who was born in Indiana to Mexican immigrants, is biased against Trump partly because the presumptive GOP presidential nominee's immigration proposals include building a wall along the U.S. border with Mexico. On top of that, Trump told John Dickerson, host of CBS' " Face the Nation ," that Curiel belongs to a group that is "very strongly pro-Mexican." Trump, June 5: He's a member of a club or society, very strongly pro-Mexican, which is all fine. But I say he's got bias. I want to build a wall. I'm going to build a wall. Trump made a similar claim about Curiel's affiliations during an interview with CNN "State of the Union" anchor Jake Tapper. Tapper, June 5: So, no Mexican judge could ever be involved in a case that involves you? Trump: Well, no, he is a member of a society where very pro-Mexico. And that's fine. It's all fine. But it's not accurate to call the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association "very pro-Mexico" or "very strongly pro-Mexican." The lawyers association "was formed with a desire to effect change in San Diego by representing the interests of the Latino community, identifying issues which involved the Latino community, and advocating for those issues," according to its website . It was incorporated as a 501(c)(6) organization in 1979, and in 2005, it formed the San Diego La Raza Lawyers Association Scholarship Fund for Latino students. The group lists the following goals under its mission statement : • Increase the overall number of Latinos in the legal profession. • Encourage and support Latino and Latina judicial candidates to apply to the bench • Advocate for the promotion and retention of Latino and Latina attorneys and judicial officers. • Improve the professional skills of our members through our certified MCLE programs. • Provide for the professional and social interaction among our members and other organized bar associations. • Improve the delivery and access of legal services to the county's Spanish speaking community. • Provide role models and mentoring to Latino youth through direct interaction with students and school districts. • Strongly advocate positions on judicial, economic and social issues to political leaders and state and local bar associations that impact the Latino community. The San Diego group is one of more than a dozen affiliates of the California La Raza Lawyers Association , and both are affiliated with the Hispanic National Bar Association . Curiel, on a 2011 judicial questionnaire to become a federal judge, listed the Hispanic National Bar Association and La Raza Lawyers of San Diego among the groups that he belongs to. But some Trump supporters have confused the San Diego legal group with the National Council of La Raza, a Hispanic civil rights and advocacy organization that supports "comprehensive immigration reform," including a path to U.S. citizenship for undocumented immigrants. Osuna, the SDLRLA president, said the two groups are separate. "The only connection we have is that we provide services to the Latino community," he said. "We are not affiliated in any other way." The lawyers association, on its website , does list the National Council of La Raza as a resource for the Latino community. However, Osuna said that organizations listed there simply provide services not available through the San Diego group. When Fox News' Bill O'Reilly asked Trump if he regretted making an issue of Curiel's Mexican heritage, Trump said that he brought it up because he was asked. O'Reilly, June 6: OK. So wouldn't it have been better then if you didn't bring up the Mexican thing at all and just said what you said here tonight because, look, you're being sued, I understand we did analysis of your lawsuit's history and you win most of your lawsuits. You are a big guy. Guys are going to come after you. You know that. So wouldn't it have been better if you just said, look, I don't think I have been treated fairly, here's what we have, and let the Mexican thing alone? Trump: Well, the question was asked to me, you know, I mean, all these times, every time I go. I want to talk about how lousy the economy is. I want to talk about how badly we are doing against ISIS. How badly we are doing on the border. But every time I go onto a show all they want to talk about is Trump University. But Trump has been suggesting since at least February that Curiel's background might make him less than impartial. At a campaign rally in Arkansas, Trump said: Trump, Feb. 27: There is a hostility to me from the judge, tremendous hostility, beyond belief. I believe he happens to be Spanish, which is fine. He is Hispanic, which is fine. And we haven't asked for recusal, which we may do. But we have a judge who's very hostile. The next day, in an interview with "Fox News Sunday" anchor Chris Wallace, Trump suggested that Curiel "has been extremely hostile" to him because of Trump's position on border security. Trump, Feb. 28: I think the judge has been extremely hostile to me. I think it has to do with perhaps the fact that I'm very, very strong on the border. Very, very strong on the border. And he has been extremely hostile to me. Trump brought it up more recently in a campaign speech in San Diego on May 27. He called Curiel "a hater of Donald Trump" and said that he "happens to be, we believe, Mexican, which is great." Now, Trump, says that his comments about Curiel were "misconstrued." In a written statement , Trump said: Trump, June 7: It is unfortunate that my comments have been misconstrued as a categorical attack against people of Mexican heritage. I am friends with and employ thousands of people of Mexican and Hispanic descent. The American justice system relies on fair and impartial judges. All judges should be held to that standard. I do not feel that one's heritage makes them incapable of being impartial, but, based on the rulings that I have received in the Trump University civil case, I feel justified in questioning whether I am receiving a fair trial. Trump is free to question whether he is receiving a fair trial. But he now says that he does not "feel that one's heritage makes them incapable of being impartial" when the record shows otherwise. He not only questioned Curiel's impartiality because of his "Mexican heritage," but he also told Dickerson on "Face the Nation" that a Muslim judge may not be impartial, either, given Trump's call to ban Muslims from entering the U.S. Dickerson, June 5 : My question is, if it were a Muslim judge, would you also feel like they wouldn't be able to treat you fairly because of that policy of yours? Trump: It's possible, yes. Yes. That would be possible, absolutely. Trump says in his statement that he will not comment any further on the Trump University lawsuit. https://www.sharethefacts.co/share/37e2a737-354f-42d8-b060-ead717e11894 | 5 | 99,184 | news |
Meet Bailee, a 4-year-old African Boerboel who gave birth to one of the largest litters of puppies in history. The Alabama dog delivered a whopping 19 puppies at the Auburn University College of Veterinary Medicine in late April. "The radiograph showed at least 14 to 15 puppies," Dr. Aimee Johnson, a professor at the teaching hospital wrote in a press statement , "so we decided on a C-section because a natural birth for a litter that size would be a long delivery for the mother." She said a C-section would be safer for the pups, but one died in delivery and another died in the weeks to come. But, the hospital wrote that the rest of the pups and their mother are " thriving ." Bailee and her remaining puppies stayed at the hospital for the next month, where a nanny overlooked feedings that happened every 4 hours. A video shot by the Dothan Eagle demonstrates exactly how complicated feeding sessions can be, as each of the 17 pups climb over each other to nurse on their mom , although they now normally nurse in groups of five or six at a time. "The litter's doing well," Auburn breeder Jerry Turner said in an interview with the Dothan Eagle last week. "They are very loving, very affectionate and highly intelligent dogs." Bailee was impregnated by a male African Boerboel named Mayhem with the help of the teaching hospital's animal reproductive branch. Though the hospital believed the 19 pup litter was the biggest ever delivered in their hospital, Bailee did not quite make the Guinness World Record, which reported a United Kingdom dog who gave birth to 24 puppies in 2004. Watch: Mom Gives Birth to Baby Girl on Leap Day Again: 'I Won The Baby Lottery' | 5 | 99,185 | news |
When the LPGA season began, Brooke Henderson was an 18-year-old trying to succeed during her first full season on the tour. Now after nine top-10 finishes, Henderson has her eyes settled on another goal: winning Olympic gold for Canada. The sport returns to the Olympics for the first time in 112 years. The Olympic tournament has left a mark on the LPGA Tour this year, crunching together a hectic schedule but also giving players another high-profile tournament to compete in. "I think it's a really cool opportunity to go to the highest stage for a lot of other athletes," Henderson said. "On the other hand, I think that the LPGA majors are just as big as the Olympics or even bigger in terms of golf. Or in terms of all the other sports, I think it's really cool that golf's back in." Like Henderson, golfers on tour are happy to see the sport earn a spot back in the Olympics, giving women's golf a platform to grow and a new spotlight for its stars. Sixty women will compete in Rio from Aug. 17-20. The top 15 in the Rolex Rankings are guaranteed a spot, unless there are more than four per individual country. For American Gerina Piller, who passed into the top 15 in late May and currently sits 16th in the Rolex Rankings, it's an accomplishment she cherishes. The qualification period ends July 11. "To be at the Olympics is really awesome," she said. "I didn't really think it was something that could be attainable but now I'm sitting that I'm qualified, so it's pretty cool." Gaby Lopez views golf's inclusion in the Olympics as an opportunity to grow the game and put it on the same pedestal as swimming or tennis, which benefit from the publicity and viewership of the Games. And in a sport that needs star power, the Olympics can also highlight different storylines, she says. "It's going to have a huge impact," Lopez said. "And for me and my country, young kids just getting to start the game again because in Mexico golf is not very big but when we talk about sports everyone watches the Olympics." Still, there are consequences. The KPMG Women's PGA Championship this weekend is in the middle of a stretch of tournaments on 11 consecutive weekends. It's a grueling period that began last month and includes three majors and concludes with the British Open on the final weekend of July. Those who decide to play in every tournament will find themselves hopscotching between three continents in less than a month as they fight for results and earnings. Golfers, like Piller, will pick and choose which tournaments to participate in and try to pace themselves to prevent burnout. Rest, she and others assert, will be key. Then there is the most conspicuous worry for golfers the Zika virus. It's left golfers relying on their governing bodies to provide protection. Lopez said the Mexican golf federation will provide vaccinations and that assuages her enough to not diminish her zeal to play in the Olympics. There is no vaccine for the Zika virus. "My excitement to go to Rio is bigger than worrying about the Zika (virus)," she said. "I know we have to take precautions, but I'm very sure that the international golf federation is going to take care of us. I don't think there is going to be a major risk. If there will be, we wouldn't play there. "I know it's a risk at any event. You can get bitten by any bug or any spider or any other kind of bug so I don't think it's a major thing. If they would find it very, very risky they wouldn't put their players in risk, especially the best in the world." | 1 | 99,186 | sports |
Bills head coach Rex Ryan thinks Cleveland Cavaliers star LeBron James could play in the NFL. "I don't know a whole lot about [basketball], but that big ol' rascal can come play tight end for us, if he wants to," Ryan told reporters on Wednesday, according to ESPN's Mike Rodak. "I think it would work out well. You look at him. He's physical. Unbelievable. Look at the range. There's nobody that can cover him. There's no way you can cover him. Fast, physical. We'll give it a shot." For years, many have speculated whether James, who starred in high school as a football player, could ever make it in the pros. He said in 2013 that he wanted to try to play one game in the NFL "before it's over." In Sports Illustrated's first cover story on James, dated Feb. 18, 2002 , Grant Wahl wrote that James had talked his mother into letting him continue playing on his high school football team as he began to dominate in hoops. LeBron may be the reason for the hysteria, but he isn't your typical high school hoops phenom. For the last two years, in fact, he has risked career-threatening injury as an all-state wide receiver on the St. Vincent-St. Mary football team. At first Gloria refused to let LeBron play last fall, but after the 22-year-old singer Aaliyah died in a plane crash last August, he persuaded her to let him play. "You're not promised tomorrow," LeBron says. "I had to be out on the field with my team." Though LeBron did break the index finger of his left (nonshooting) hand, he helped lead the Irish to the state semifinals. During his playing career, he's spent time around football teams as well, like the Ohio State Buckeyes and Dallas Cowboys. Kenny Ducey | 1 | 99,187 | sports |
David and Victoria Beckham's whirlwind romance began back in 1997 and turned into marriage in 1999. Since then, the pair have welcomed four beautiful children, sons Brooklyn, Romeo, and Cruz and daughter Harper, and have shared a slew of sweet moments along the way, including adorable red carpet dates and lavish vacations. While so many couples have already called it quits this year, David reveals that their secret to a long-lasting marriage is to "trust each other's judgement" and that "it doesn't matter what people say." Victoria has also gone on record saying, "We always make time for each other as a couple and as a family. David and I have nothing to prove. We love each other, look out for each other and are strong as both partners and parents." Read through the duo's best quotes about each other, then check out even more Hollywood couples who have been together the longest. Victoria on David On her nickname for David : "I call him Golden Balls." On how they make their relationship work : "Yes, we travel a lot with our respective businesses and charitable commitments, but we always make time for each other as a couple and as a family. David and I have nothing to prove. We love each other, look out for each other and are strong as both partners and parents." On the first time she met David : "I knew as soon as I met him. One of the most attractive things I found with David is that he shared the same sort of family values as me. He was sitting there with his family and I really liked that. He's a very kind person. We're really good friends on top of everything." On her admiration for David : "My husband constantly inspires me and guides me - he has done so much good work, I look up to him and have the utmost respect and admiration for all that he has achieved." On how they raise their children : "David and I both have a strong work ethic and I believe that's a good example to set our children. David and I explain to the children what privileged lives they lead. We tell them that in many places in the world children are hungry, homeless and sick. They all understand how important it is to help others. Romeo ran the children's marathon earlier this year [2015] and raised an amazing amount of money through sponsorship, which he divided between David's charity and UNAIDS." On how she deals with those pesky divorce rumors : "I have never listened to, or commented on, the rumors about any aspect of my life. I am blessed to have a wonderful husband and beautiful, healthy, happy children." David on Victoria On meeting Victoria : "Well, the Spice Girls had been together for a few months and obviously, they were so huge and I just wanted to meet one of them and the one I wanted to meet was Victoria. I was in a hotel room with my best friend, who was my best man at my wedding, and I remember turning around before I even met Victoria and said, 'I want to marry that one. The one in the black dress, the one with the bob.' A few weeks later, she came to a football match - soccer match - and I said, 'Hi' from across the room and that was it. I thought I missed my chance and then a week later, she turned up at another football match and she had a few to drink and she gave me her number." On where they shared their first kiss : "On the way to my parent's house - my mommy's house now. There's a roundabout and there's a little pub on the corner and that's where we had our first kiss." On why he loves her : "I love her for many reasons but the main one is because she gave me the most amazing children." On Victoria's work ethic : "I'm proud of her because she works so hard. She's so dedicated, she deserves the success." On their long-lasting marriage : "We've been together for 18 years, we've been married for 16 years, so you trust each other's judgment. I think that has worked for us." On dealing with the Hollywood rumor mill : "I'm secure as a person, as a husband, as a dad. I've gone past the point of really worrying, caring. When I was 22 years old, it might have affected me differently. I'm 40, I've got four amazing kids, and an amazing wife, amazing parents, amazing in-laws, amazing friends who I trust: It doesn't matter what people say." | 6 | 99,188 | entertainment |
Ben Affleck and Matt Damon are honored at Spike TV's Guys Choice Awards with the Guys of the Decade award. Rough cut (no reporter narration). | 6 | 99,189 | entertainment |
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In yet another conservative move , North Carolina is now advancing legislation that would prohibit the public from viewing footage captured by police body cameras. The state legislature's House judiciary committee voted on June 7 to approve a bill that would make police camera footage public only at a police department's discretion. A person recorded on a police body camera or police dashboard camera would need a court order to get a copy of the footage. "There would be no mechanism for law enforcement to release videos of public interest to the general public other than through a court order," wrote the ACLU of North Carolina in a statement. This moves North Carolina in the opposite direction of cities like New York City and New Orleans, the latter of which is loosening its rules around how and when the public can access police camera footage. This was a necessarystep after a string of attempts by the New Orleans Police Department to withhold video of police-involved shootings and killings of unarmed suspects. This eventually blew up in the department's face. Chicago's police department learned this the hard way, too, after its unsuccessful attempt at cloaking video footage of a cop shooting the unarmed , African-American teenager Laquan McDonald dead. Thanks to relentless advocacy around police transparency , the city has now released years of video and audio footage of police involved in acts of violence against citizens. Under a new policy, Chicago police must now produce video of police-involved shootings within 60 days. Officers must appeal to a judge if they want to prevent the release of such footage. In North Carolina, however, it would be the people subjected to police harassment and violence who would have to appeal to a judge to get the visual evidence if this bill becomes law. In essence, HB 972 seems to mostly serve and protect police from public accountability. " If HB 972 becomes law, public trust in law enforcement across North Carolina will suffer, and the millions of dollars being spent to equip officers with body cameras could be squandered with little or no benefit to the public," said Susanna Birdsong, policy counsel for the ACLU of North Carolina in a press statement . "Many people simply cannot afford to bring a claim in court in order to obtain body camera footage." Elon University law professor Michael Rich, whose research focuses on police investigation methods, wrote in a May 2 op-ed for the Gaston-Gazette that one of the biggest dangers of the bill is that it designates police body-cam footage as a non-public record. "This makes no sense," wrote Rich. "Under existing law, public records include all 'photographs' and 'films' made 'in connection with the transaction of public business by any agency of North Carolina government.' Body-worn camera and dashboard camera footage clearly fit this definition, and the bill provides no reason for treating this footage different than all other public records." Watch this newscast from Raleigh-Durham station WRAL to hear the House panel debate the bill before taking a vote on it: | 5 | 99,191 | news |
Vezina Trophy finalist Braden Holtby will represent the Washington Capitals in the annual Capital Pride Parade on Saturday, which the goaltender hopes is just the start of his involvement in the gay-rights movement. Holtby and his wife, Brandi, were planning to attend the parade anyway, and he was honored when asked by the organization to participate. Holtby and other team representatives will walk in conjunction with the organization You Can Play, which has worked with the NHL to promote tolerance. "We've been wanting to get involved a little bit more and more with that," Holtby said in a phone interview Wednesday. "Everyone kind of has their charities or their causes that mean something to them and they want to participate in. This is one that's very high up on the list for us." Holtby said he and his wife strongly believe that people should be treated fairly and equally. Brandi Holtby's Twitter bio features the Harvey Milk quote: "It takes no compromise to give people their rights. It takes no money to respect the individual." You Can Play co-founder Patrick Burke noticed it and said the Holtby family has been "a huge supporter" of the organization for years. Burke is the son of Brian Burke, the Calgary Flames director of hockey operations. Patrick started the group two years after his brother Brendan, who was gay, died in a car accident in 2010. Holtby just finished his second full season as the Capitals' starting goaltender. He tied Martin Brodeur's single-season wins record with 48, ranked sixth in the league with a 2.20 goals-against average and ranked eighth with a .922 save percentage. The 26-year-old Holtby is considered the favorite to win the Vezina Trophy as the NHL's top goalie when the awards are given out June 22 in Las Vegas. Holtby, who signed a $30.5 million, five-year contract last summer, is still growing into his role as one of the faces of the Capitals' franchise. Doing off-ice events like the Pride Parade is just another step. "It creates more of an opportunity to create good, to do things that means something to yourself and you think that are beneficial to society," Holtby said. "Hopefully, every year coming we do more and more to create an effect." ___ Follow Stephen Whyno on Twitter at http://www.twitter.com/SWhyno . | 1 | 99,192 | sports |
After 555 days of living without a human heart, this Michigan man has finally replaced his portable artificial device for the real thing. Stan Larkin, 25, was the first person in Michigan to be fitted for the SynCardia Freedom Portable Driver, an artificial heart designed to fit conveniently in his backpack. He was diagnosed with familial cardiomyopathy when he was a teenager , and has been battling heart failure until December 2014, when his heart had to be removed. He was also unable to receive a transplant on time. "We wanted to get heart transplants, but we didn't think we had enough time," said Dr. Jonathan Haft, an associate professor that worked with Larkin, in a press release . Though existing devices that assist with partial heart failure wouldn't be suitable for Larkin, new technology suited his needs perfectly. Larkin was the lucky first candidate to try out the portable artificial heart that allowed him to spend Christmas at home as he waited for a transplant. Haft explained that normally, heart transplant patients had to remain in the ICU, but with the new device, Larkin was allowed to leave and live his life. "It was stressful," Larkin said in a video by UM Health System, "but after I got it, I felt so much better. I felt like before I had any heart problems, I felt like I can do what I want." The University of Michigan Health System explained in a statement that two tubes were connected to the body that allowed the machine to deliver air into the ventricles and allow blood to be pumped through the body -- just as a human heart would. His older brother, who also suffered from heart failure, also relied on the device, but was fitted after Larkin and received his transplant earlier. Finally, after more than a year of living with the device while on the transplant list, Larkin replaced his artificial heart with a new one. "I feel like I could take a jog as we speak," Larking joked in a press conference . "I want to thank the donor who gave themselves for me. I'd like to meet their family one day. Hopefully they'd want to meet me." | 5 | 99,193 | news |
An apartment has been hit by bullets twice in a month. WBZ-TV's Liam Martin reports. | 5 | 99,194 | news |
There are plenty of trick-shot artists in sports, but perhaps no group is as well known in the golf community as the Bryan Bros. Comprised of siblings Wesley and George, the duo became viral sensations in 2014 after creating a YouTube channel with some of the favorite golf-related stunts . Their popularity earned the brothers a spot on Golf Channel's "Big Break" and soon they brought their antics to landmarks like St. Andrews and Sawgrass, while recruiting stars like Rory McIlroy to play along. But the Bryans are more than sorcerers with the sticks. George was a three-time All-American at South Carolina, while Wesley, also a USC product, has taken the Web.com Tour by storm. He's won twice this season, earning his PGA Tour card for next year. He has four top-10 finishes, and leads the tour in scoring and earnings. This performance has warranted a call-up to the big leagues, as Wesley -- with George on the bag -- will make his PGA Tour debut this week at the FedEx St. Jude Classic in Memphis. According to Wesley, the trick shots have improved his game. "It definitely helps with creativity," he said to Golf Digest in 2014. "I'll have a tee shot and I'll think if I threw the ball up and hit it, I'd have no problem hitting the fairway. If you can't hit a fairway when the ball is just sitting there on a tee, you might as well go home." Bryan's not the strongest player off the tee, but he ranks first on the Web.com Tour in putting, a trait that should come in handy at TPC Southwind. And though it will be a challenge to make the cut, would you really bet against a guy who can turn the 17th at Sawgrass into a playground? More from Golf Digest: The Hottest PGA Tour Wives and Girlfriends How Tiger's Swing Has Changed This Weekend's Best Golf Instagrams | 1 | 99,195 | sports |
Swings in the stock market are foretelling moves in presidential polls, according to Tom McClellan, technical analyst and editor of the newsletter The McClellan Market Report. If you want to know who will pull ahead in the 2016 election, he said, look to equities. "The stock market movements tend to lead the changes in the poll numbers by about a week," McClellan told CNBC's " Squawk on the Street " on Wednesday. "If you see a movement in the Dow or the S&P or your favorite index, you're likely to see the same movement show up about a week or a week and a half later in the poll numbers." McClellan compared major U.S. indexes and polls from RealClearPolitics , and found that the two move in lockstep. He started comparing them in the 2000 election, and found that numbers become accurate when daily polling begins closer to November. Former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton became the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee Tuesday night. McClellan pointed to the corresponding Dow Jones industrial average, which has moved higher in the past two weeks as Clinton gained ground. "If the market moves up, that tends to benefit the incumbent in the last elections," McClellan said, adding that Clinton, the way the model works, is being viewed by the market as the incumbent. "If the market bids up people tend to feel better about it, and if people are feeling good they like the guy who's in office more." Conversely, he said, people tend to blame whoever's in office when they're "feeling bad" or the markets dip. "If you see the market head downward, which I'm expecting after a top in early July, that would presumably go in Trump's favor," McClellan said. This market theory presents a quandary for Republicans, he said. "If you're a Trump supporter but you're also an investor do you want the market to go down so Trump can do better, or do you want the market to go up so you can do better?" McClellan said. October should bring more clarity for election results and in turn, for the stock markets. "An unknown risk in Wall Street's view is bigger than any actual risk," McClellan said, adding that the November election is one of the biggest "unknowns" at the moment. "Once it clears up and it becomes evident how it's going to turn out, the market can focus back on investing and earnings and we should have a bullish 2017." McClellan is upbeat overall on equities but said he could go short-term neutral if the S&P (.SPX) heads much lower this week. For gold (@GC.1) though, he's neutral short term and bearish on the intermediate. He said commercial gold traders are now at a high net short position, and have been continuously short since 2001. "Whenever you see a really high net short position, the smart money is betting on a decline in gold prices and the smart money is usually right in the long run." | 3 | 99,196 | finance |
A Tennessee woman who fatally shot her husband over a text message sent to another woman has been sentenced to 15 years in prison. Tammy Lynn Talford, 57, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter in the death of her husband, Leon Talford, in Knox County Criminal Court on Monday. Mrs. Talford shot and killed her husband in April 2015 after prosecutors said she found a message to another woman on his phone that read, "I love you." Talford's husband had suffered a gunshot wound to his upper chest before police say she tried to claim initially that the shooting was an accident. The story eventually changed under interrogation, when authorities say Mrs. Talford admitted to shooting the 52-year-old after discovering the message. However, Talford claimed even Monday that she never intended to kill her husband. Mrs. Talford must serve at least 45 percent of her 15 year sentence before she is eligible for parole. | 5 | 99,197 | news |
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Two Palestinians opened fire at a popular Tel Aviv nightspot near Israel's military headquarters Wednesday, police said, killing four people in one of the worst attacks in a months-long wave of violence. The shooting spread panic, and video posted on social media showed a uniformed officer firing a handgun, though his target could not be seen. Police said one of the attackers was arrested, while the other was wounded by gunfire and undergoing surgery. Five other people were injured in addition to the four killed at the Sarona Market in Israel's commercial capital, police said. Israeli authorities said the two attackers were cousins from the Hebron area in the occupied West Bank. The market and complex of bars and restaurants is located across the street from Israel's defence ministry and main army headquarters. The nighttime shooting led police to clear the area. Police said the wounded included those sitting at a coffee shop in the complex. The assailants' weapons had been retrieved by officers, they said. "We are talking here about a pretty serious terrorist incident," Tel Aviv police chief Chico Edri told reporters. "Two terrorists arrived at the complex while firing, and to our regret, nine people were injured to different degrees." "Of the two terrorists, one was arrested and the other wounded by gunfire," he said. He said "we do not know of another terrorist at large and so from our point of view people can return to their normal lives". - 'Shock' - The United States called it a "cowardly" attack, while UN Special Coordinator for the Middle East peace process, Nickolay Mladenov, immediately condemned it. "All must reject violence and say no to terror," he said in a statement. "Our prayers are with the families of those killed. I am also shocked to see Hamas welcome the terror attack. Leaders must stand against violence and the incitement that fuels it, not condone it." A medic with United Hatzalah rescuers, in an account relayed by the rescue service, said: "When I arrived at the scene I saw two young people who were suffering from gunshot wounds outside of a restaurant at the Sarona centre." "We treated them, as well as numerous other individuals who were suffering from shock." The nationalities and other details of the victims were not yet known. A spokesman for Tel Aviv Mayor Ron Huldai quoted him as saying "we will not be able to put a policeman on every street corner". "The lone assailant can appear from any corner," he said. "That is the reality with which we have to live." The city however said in a statement it was increasing security at schools and municipal buildings. Violence since October has killed at least 207 Palestinians, 28 Israelis, two Americans, an Eritrean and a Sudanese. Most of the Palestinians killed were carrying out knife, gun or car-ramming attacks, according to Israeli authorities. Others were killed in clashes or by Israeli air strikes in the Gaza Strip. The violence has steadily declined in recent weeks, though attacks have continued to occur. Shooting attacks such as the one that occurred Wednesday night have been rare, though Tel Aviv has seen two other major incidents in recent months. In March as US Vice President Joe Biden visited, a Palestinian went on a stabbing spree along the Tel Aviv waterfront, killing an American tourist and wounding 12 people. On January 1, an Arab Israeli killed three people in a shooting spree in Tel Aviv. Many analysts say Palestinian frustration with Israeli occupation and settlement building in the West Bank, the complete lack of progress in peace efforts and their own fractured leadership have fed the unrest. Israel says incitement by Palestinian leaders and media is a main cause of the violence. Last week in Paris, representatives from 28 countries, the Arab League, European Union and United Nations met to discuss ways of restarting Israeli-Palestinian peace efforts. Negotiations have been at a complete standstill since a US-led initiative collapsed in April 2014. Following last week's meeting, France hopes to hold an international peace conference before the end of the year. Israel strongly opposes the French plan, calling instead for direct negotiations, while the Palestinians support it. France and others argue that the lack of any initiative leaves a vacuum that can be filled by extremists on either side. | 5 | 99,199 | news |
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