| Hillary Clinton: Assange must 'answer for what he has done' in wake of arrest Posted: 12 Apr 2019 08:54 AM PDT  Clinton says at New York event: 'I think it is clear from the indictment that came out it's not about punishing journalism'Hillary Clinton said the WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, whose website published hacked emails from her 2016 presidential campaign, must "answer for what he has done" in the wake of his dramatic arrest on Thursday.Her comments came hours after Assange was forcibly removed from the Ecuadorian embassy in London and taken into custody by London's Metropolitan police and charged by the US with conspiring to hack into a secret Pentagon computer network.Assange is accused of working with Chelsea Manning, then a US army intelligence analyst, to break into the defense department network in March 2010 to obtain classified documents.The US confirmed it would seek the extradition of Assange from the UK, prompting immediate concerns over journalistic protections under the first amendment."I think it is clear from the indictment that came out it's not about punishing journalism," Clinton said at an event in New York.Clinton said the issue was not one of press freedom, but "about assisting the hacking of a military computer to steal information from the United States government".After 2,487 days in the embassy, the 47-year-old was arrested after Ecuador revoked his political asylum and invited police officers inside their Knightsbridge premises, where he has stayed since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over sexual assault allegations which Assange has always denied.Later on Thursday, he was found guilty of failing to surrender to the court and faces up to 12 months in a British prison."Look, I'll wait and see what happens with the charges and how it proceeds, but he skipped bail in the UK," Clinton said. "The bottom line is he has to answer for what he has done, at least as it's been charged."Clinton also took a swipe at Donald Trump, stating of her former rival: "I do think it's a little ironic that [Assange] may be the only foreigner that this administration would welcome to the United States."Clinton has long pointed to Russian interference in the 2016 election as a major factor in her defeat to Trump, citing in particular the impact of hacked emails published on WikiLeaks at pivotal moments in the campaign.The website first leaked the contents of internal emails stolen from Democratic National Committee servers just ahead of the party's convention in July. WikiLeaks then published thousands of hacked emails in October from Clinton's campaign chairman, John Podesta, which were released just hours after the release of an Access Hollywood tape in which Trump had bragged about groping and kissing women without their consent.Despite hailing WikiLeaks as a "treasure trove" during the 2016 campaign, Trump feigned ignorance about the website and its activities in the wake of Assange's arrest."I know nothing about WikiLeaks," the president told reporters at the White House. "It's not my thing."After WikiLeaks disseminated the hacked DNC emails in 2016, then candidate Trump infamously declared: "WikiLeaks, I love WikiLeaks."Vice-President Mike Pence defended Trump in an interview with CNN on Friday, stating his prior comments were "in no way an endorsement of an organization that we now understand was involved in disseminating classified information by the United States of America"."The justice department is now seeking extradition and we're going to bring Julian Assange to justice," Pence said, while adding Assange's work with Manning was "one of the greatest compromises of classified information in American history".Manning, a former US soldier, was convicted in 2013 of leaking classified documents to WikiLeaks and sentenced to 35 years in prison for espionage and theft. She was released in 2017 after a seven-year stint in prison, but sent back to jail in March of this year after refusing to testify to a grand jury investigating WikiLeaks.While the narrow charge against Assange of violating computer hacking laws was not widely in dispute, academics and advocacy groups were alarmed by the justice department's accusatory tone toward journalistic activities that include protecting the anonymity of sources and sharing government information and records in the public interest.Assange's lawyer, Jennifer Robinson, said his arrest "sets a dangerous precedent for all media organizations in Europe and around the world"."It's called conspiracy," added WikiLeaks's editor-in-chief, Kristinn Hrafnsson."It's conspiracy to commit journalism."
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| Tax Extensions and Other Advice for Procrastinators Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:38 AM PDT  Monday, April 15, is the deadline for most Americans to file their 2018 federal and state income tax returns. Massachusetts and Maine residents get two more days to file, on Wednesday, April 17, ...
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| New military council leader promises civilian government for Sudan Posted: 13 Apr 2019 02:06 PM PDT  In his first televised address, Lieutenant General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan Abdelrahman canceled a night curfew and ordered the release of all prisoners jailed under emergency laws put in place by Bashir before his downfall. During a meeting between the transitional military council and a coalition of opposition groups, including protest organizers, the protesters demanded that civilians be included in the council, opposition activists who were briefed about the meeting said. The military council also promised to "abolish all laws that restrict freedoms," the activists said.
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| EU 'ready to respond' to US in Airbus/Boeing row Posted: 12 Apr 2019 10:18 AM PDT  French Finance Minister Bruno Le Maire warned on Friday that Europe was ready to hit back at any US tariffs against Airbus as he pleaded for an "amicable solution" to the long-running dispute. "If we were to be hit again by unjustified and unjustifiable US sanctions, Europe would be ready to respond in a united and strong way," the minister said after his meeting with his US counterpart Steven Mnuchin. "All this would be bad for growth and bad for American and European prosperity," he said at a press conference on the sidelines of the spring meetings of the International Monetary Fund and World Bank.
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| Woman wanted in Pa. taunted police on Facebook. Then she was arrested Posted: 12 Apr 2019 04:17 AM PDT ![Woman wanted in Pa. taunted police on Facebook. Then she was arrested]( "Woman wanted in Pa. taunted police on Facebook. Then she was arrested") A woman wanted on assault charges in Pennsylvania taunted police in a post on Facebook. That taunt led to her arrest, say police in Greene County.
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| All the Game of Thrones History You Need to Know Ahead of Season 8 Posted: 12 Apr 2019 07:28 AM PDT  From the creation of the White Walkers to the Dance of Dragons to Robert's Rebellion, here are the events that will affect season 8.
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| Comey on Barr’s ‘Spying’ Claim: ‘I Have No Idea What He’s Talking About’ Posted: 12 Apr 2019 08:17 AM PDT  Former FBI director James Comey took issue Thursday with Attorney General William Barr's recent claim that U.S. intelligence agencies "spied" on the Trump campaign.Comey, addressing a cybersecurity conference in California, drew a distinction between "spying" and the authorized surveillance that was conducted on the Trump campaign."I have no idea what he's talking about so it's hard for me to comment," Comey said. "When I hear that kind of language used, it's concerning, because the FBI and the Department of Justice conduct court-ordered electronic surveillance. I have never thought of that as spying."Comey was responding to Barr's Wednesday testimony before the House Appropriations Committee, in which the attorney general surprised Democratic lawmakers by stating that the surveillance conducted on the Trump campaign in order to identify possible links to Russia qualified as "spying.""I think spying did occur," Barr told the panel. "But the question is whether it was adequately predicated and I am not suggesting that it wasn't adequately predicated. . . . I am not suggesting those rules were violated, but I think it is important to look at that. And I am not talking about the FBI necessarily, but intelligence agencies more broadly.""I think spying on a political campaign is a big deal — it's a big deal," he added.Congressional Democrats have chastised Barr for insinuating that the surveillance conducted on the Trump campaign, which relied in part on a FISA warrant supported by the unsubstantiated Steele dossier, was in some way politically motivated, as many of their Republican colleagues have long alleged. They contend that the counterintelligence investigation, which also relied on confidential informants, was an appropriate response to the threat of Russian election-meddling.Comey on Thursday acknowledged that, as a two-time attorney general with decades of government experience, Barr is entitled to the benefit of the doubt, but expressed surprise that he would accuse U.S. intelligence agencies of "spying" on a presidential campaign."If the attorney general has come to the belief that that should be called spying, wow," Comey said. "That's going to require a whole lot of conversations inside the Department of Justice. But I don't know what he meant."Barr told lawmakers Wednesday that he has formed a team to investigate whether the counterintelligence investigation against the Trump campaign was tainted by bias. The team will likely examine the degree to which FBI and Department of Justice officials misled the FISA court about the origins of the Steele dossier, which was commissioned by a firm contracted by the Clinton campaign, in order to obtain a warrant to surveil Carter Page. Page had left the Trump campaign by the time the surveillance began, but the warrant likely entitled authorities to surveil his prior communications with fellow Trump campaign officials.
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| Disney CEO confirms that Disney+ will be likely be available on Apple TV Posted: 12 Apr 2019 07:37 AM PDT  At $6.99 per month (which goes down to $5.83 if you pay for the whole year), Disney+ is a no-brainer. It's a lot cheaper than competing video streaming services, including Netflix and HBO, and offers a massive catalog of titles from both Disney and Fox, including exclusive content that you won't find anywhere else.The big question after Disney's event the other day was whether Disney+ would come to Apple's revamped Apple TV app, which will also include Apple's own streaming service, Apple TV+. Disney did not address the matter during its event, but CEO Bob Iger said in an interview afterward that Apple TV would get Disney+.During the event, Disney only said that consumers will be able to subscribe to Disney+ on Roku and PlayStation, without naming other companies. That's because Disney hasn't made deals with "all of them" according to Iger. The new Disney+ app will "in all likelihood be available through traditional app distributors, Apple being one of them," Iger told Bloomberg.It's unclear at this time whether users will be able to subscribe to Disney+ from Apple devices or whether they'll have to get the service via an internet browser before logging in inside the app. The Disney+ app will not be available until fall, so we'll have to wait and see how it'll work on Apple devices.Recently, Netflix decided not to allow new subscribers to sign up for the service via an Apple device, a move meant to prevent sharing a cut of the revenue with Apple. Iger also touched on the fact that he's still an Apple board member. He told Bloomberg that he recused himself from meetings whenever the topic came up. He said that streaming "has not been discussed all that much" because it was relatively small and nascent.
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| Boeing makes 96 flights to test software on troubled Max jet Posted: 11 Apr 2019 06:09 PM PDT  DALLAS (AP) — Boeing's CEO says crews have made 96 flights to test a software update for its troubled 737 Max jet and will make more in coming weeks as the company attempts to convince regulators to let the plane fly again.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez mentioned 3,181 times on Fox in six weeks: ‘We have an AOC segment every single day’ Posted: 12 Apr 2019 01:31 PM PDT  Fox Media channels have mentioned freshman congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez every day for about six weeks, as reported by media watchdog group Media Matters. Fox, headed by Rupert Murdoch, is best known for providing right-leaning news and political talk shows, like Justice Jeanine and Hannity. The New York representative was mentioned at least 3,181 times on the network between February 25 and April 7.President Trump is known to frequently watch Fox during his 'executive time'. Ocasio-Cortez, a self-proclaimed democratic socialist, took to Twitter to respond. "Fox News brought me up 3,000+ times in *6 weeks.* That's how hard they're fighting against dignified healthcare, wages, & justice for all; and turning their firepower on the youngest Congresswoman in history to do it. Too bad for them, cause we don't flinch. ForThePeople."Ocasio-Cortez is referring to her championship of what Fox sees as radical liberal causes, like the fight for a liveable minimum wage, Medicare for all, and free college. Media Matters says that "Hosts and guests smear and misrepresent Ocasio-Cortez's agenda, caricaturing it while painting it as dangerous, far-left socialism". The watchdog notes how Fox has repeatedly invalidated Ocasio-Cortez due to her age, calling her a little girl, yet claim she's taken over the democratic party. Fox has also claimed she's pushing her "Latin American values" on the United States, despite the fact that Ocasio-Cortez is Puerto Rican and from the Bronx. Puerto Rico is an American territory.Media Matters notes that host Stuart Varney acknowledged, "We have an AOC segment every single day, almost every single hour. She's good for our ratings"
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| Republican group sorry for email calling Ocasio-Cortez a 'terrorist' Posted: 12 Apr 2019 10:37 AM PDT  The president of a college Republican group in Ohio has apologized for a fundraising email that referred to Democratic congresswoman Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez as a "domestic terrorist."
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| U.S. to send 100 agents to Mexico border to cut delays: congresswoman Posted: 11 Apr 2019 08:26 PM PDT ![U.S. to send 100 agents to Mexico border to cut delays: congresswoman]( "U.S. to send 100 agents to Mexico border to cut delays: congresswoman") The slowdowns began late last month after U.S. President Donald Trump threatened to close the border if Mexico did not halt a surge of people seeking asylum in the United States. The administration moved several hundred border agents to handle the influx of migrants, triggering long delays for cross-border traffic because of the staffing shortage. As soon as Monday, CBP plans to send officers from the Canadian border and other parts of the country to El Paso, Texas, said Democratic U.S. Representative Veronica Escobar of Texas, noting she had been informed by CBP Deputy Commissioner Robert Perez.
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| Employers at India's stricken Jet Airways protest Posted: 13 Apr 2019 07:35 AM PDT  Several hundred employees of India's beleaguered Jet Airways held a protest at Delhi airport on Saturday demanding to be paid and calling for the company to be rescued. All but around half a dozen of its 119 aircraft are grounded and all international flights are suspended until Monday. Once India's second-biggest airline by market share, the Mumbai-based firm has defaulted on loans and struggled to pay aircraft lessors and staff.
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| The Latest: Monday bond hearing for suspect in church fires Posted: 12 Apr 2019 01:11 PM PDT  OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — The Latest on the arrest of a suspect in recent arson fires at black churches in Louisiana (all times local):
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| View Photos of the Volkswagen Atlas Basecamp Concept Posted: 12 Apr 2019 06:00 AM PDT |
| Sudan’s Bashir Must Face Justice for His Genocides Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:35 AM PDT  Sudan's long-time president, Omar al Bashir — among the world's most ruthless rulers — was arrested yesterday in a military coup that followed four months of popular protests in Khartoum, the country's capital. Whatever other charges he will face for terror and corruption, he should be promptly tried for his worst offense: genocide.In 70 years since the adoption of the U.N.'s Genocide Convention, only two genocides have been officially recognized by the U.S. government while they were still occurring. The first was the Bashir regime's genocide in the western Darfur region. In mid 2004, a few months after the Darfur conflict began and a few months before the Bush administration recognized the genocide, the State Department dispatched a team to refugee camps across the border in Chad. The team interviewed survivors from the Muslim Fur, Masalit, and Zaghawa tribes, which were targeted for extermination.A preeminent expert in the field, Gregory Stanton, summarized the "shocking" survey results:> Over 60 percent of the people interviewed had witnessed the killing of a family member. Two-thirds had witnessed the killing of a non-family member. Over 80 percent had witnessed destruction of a village. Two-thirds had witnessed aerial bombing of villages by the Sudanese government. And perhaps most chillingly, one-third had heard racial epithets used while they or their relatives were being murdered or raped. Assailants often shouted, "Kill the slaves" and "We have orders to kill all the blacks."The survey's findings convinced the administration to declare the Bashir regime's campaign in Darfur a racially motivated genocide. All told, the State Department estimates that over 300,000 tribesmen have died in in the region, and hundreds of thousands remain displaced today.Despite an arrest warrant for genocide issued against him by the International Criminal Court in 2010, Bashir remained president and protected from prosecution. He continued to receive crucial diplomatic and financial support from Qatar, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Egypt, Turkey, Russia, South Africa, China, and the Arab League, among others.As I wrote 15 years ago in these pages, Darfur should be counted as Bashir's second genocide. He waged the first from the early 1990s to 2002, against the Christians and animists of southern Sudan and the people of the Nuba Mountains. That bloody campaign was undertaken in response to a rebellion against the forcible imposition of sharia law, which violated guarantees of southern autonomy included in the 1972 Addis Ababa Agreement. Though the Nuba are mostly Muslim, they resisted Bashir's call to jihad against the south and were consequently declared "apostates," marked for death along with non-Muslims, in a 1993 government fatwa.Over 2 million eventually perished and 5 million were displaced as a result. Bashir used, as he would again in Darfur, a combination of military and militia tactics, inflicting deliberate mass starvation and sanctioning widespread rape, enslavement, and bombing and strafing of hospitals, schools, and other civilian structures. It ended in 2005 with the Sudan Comprehensive Peace Agreement (SCPA). Its traumatic legacy lives on in the unending conflict and political dysfunction of South Sudan, which became an independent country under the terms of the SCPA.For 30 years, Bashir led a military dictatorship bent on forcibly Islamicizing and Arabizing Sudan's disparate tribes and religious groups. His regime carried out amputations, stonings, and other harsh punishments for such offenses as women wearing pants instead of skirts, the consumption of alcohol, adultery, homosexuality, and apostasy and blasphemy against Islam.Bashir's millions of surviving victims yearn for justice, but it is unlikely to come from the usual international bodies. The ICC, currently preoccupied with trying to prosecute American vets of Afghanistan and Iraq, is too politicized to be entrusted with adjudicating the most egregious of all human-rights violations. And U.N.-backed hybrid tribunals have been infamously slow and expensive.Bashir should instead be tried for genocide by a Sudanese court. Secretary Pompeo should honor the Bush administration's genocide designation by helping Khartoum identify Sudanese jurists and witnesses, many of whom are now in exile, and by providing expert legal counsel and encouragement. It's the best chance the world stands of forcing this monster to answer for his crimes.
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| Ohio is the latest state to pass a 'heartbeat' abortion bill. Could the legal challenges eventually upend Roe v. Wade? Posted: 13 Apr 2019 01:53 PM PDT  With the stroke of a pen by Gov. Mike DeWine, Ohio became the third state this year to pass a "heartbeat" bill banning abortion as early as six weeks into a pregnancy.
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| S&P 500 closes near record high as earnings season begins in earnest Posted: 12 Apr 2019 01:36 PM PDT  The S&P 500 is now within a percent of September's record closing high, and the S&P 500 Total Return Index, which includes reinvested dividends, in fact regained record levels, recovering ground lost after a punishing sell-off in the closing months of the year which brought the benchmark index within a rounding error of bear market territory. Of the 11 major sectors in the S&P 500, all but healthcare ended the session in positive territory.
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| Russia finds Facebook failed to provide information on data-agencies Posted: 12 Apr 2019 06:46 AM PDT  A court in Russia fined Facebook on Friday for failing to tell authorities where it stores Russian user data, Russian news agencies reported, a ruling that highlights wrangling between tech giants and Moscow as it ramps up Internet controls. The court fined Facebook 3,000 roubles ($47) for not providing information in line with legislation that came into force in 2015 requiring social media companies to store user data on servers located in Russia. The only tools Moscow currently has to enforce its data rules are fines that often amount to small sums or blocking the offending online service, an option fraught with technical difficulties.
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| Rep. Ocasio-Cortez, others blast Trump for 9/11 video coupled with Rep. Omar's comments Posted: 13 Apr 2019 03:49 PM PDT  President Donald Trump posted a video criticizing freshman Rep. Ilhan Omar, using footage of the Twin Towers burning on 9/11 to denounce her recent comments about the attacks.
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| In-Depth Photos of the 2020 BMW M850i xDrive Convertible Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:41 AM PDT |
| The Latest: WikiLeaks editor says Assange in a London prison Posted: 12 Apr 2019 03:33 PM PDT  LONDON (AP) — The Latest on WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange's arrest (all times local):
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| SpaceX carries out first commercial launch Posted: 12 Apr 2019 09:46 AM PDT  SpaceX carried out its first commercial launch on Thursday with its Falcon Heavy rocket easing a Saudi telecoms satellite into orbit. The bright white rocket rose with a roar and spewed thick gray smoke on the ground as it made its way up into clear blue skies over Cape Canaveral, Florida, trailing a long plume of orange fire. About 34 minutes after liftoff, the shiny silver satellite was successfully deployed.
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| ThinkProgress, a Powerful Democratic Media Arm, Calls Out Bernie Sanders for His Wealth Posted: 12 Apr 2019 08:26 AM PDT  The Asahi Shimbun/GettyInside Sen. Bernie Sanders' presidential campaign there has always been a sense of vulnerability about the attacks that would come against the senator over the wealth he has accumulated in office. After all, it becomes a bit tricky for a politician to rail against the perniciousness of income inequality when he himself becomes a member of the well-off, even if that fortune is simply due to a best-selling book. But few expected that one of the first jabs would come from one of the most firmly Democratic-allied media outlets in the country. This week, ThinkProgress, the news organ that is a project of, though editorially independent from, the progressive think tank Center for American Progress, put out a video noting that Sanders had stopped maligning millionaires—choosing, instead, to direct his ire at billionaires—when he became a millionaire himself. The video accompanied a more nuanced article reflecting on the irony of Sanders dragging his feet in releasing his tax returns out of a desire to hide his wealth while President Trump refused to release tax returns in order to keep secret that he wasn't as rich as he boasted. And in an email to The Daily Beast, Jodi Enda, the editor of ThinkProgress, defended the work as observational more than adversarial. "ThinkProgress did not try to 'go after' Sen. Sanders—to use your words—and we will not 'go after' any other candidate," Enda said. "We strive to be fair and to allow our readers and viewers to interpret the news for themselves. We are no different from other media in that regard." "The video illustrated how Sen. Sanders' rhetoric has evolved," Enda added. A source at the Center for American Progress stressed that no one at the think tank had insight about, or input into, the video that ThinkProgress produced. But within the broader Democratic ecosystem, those editorial lines of demarcation were not exactly satisfying. The video was viewed as an implicit warning that a portion of the party's infrastructure would not simply be content to let Sanders coast through the primary (as if that was in doubt). And a number of progressives expressed dismay to The Daily Beast that one of the party's more notable media arms had chosen to attack Sanders for his wealth well before any of his fellow primary candidates had. It did not go unnoticed that the video was being gleefully passed around by GOP operatives on Twitter. What made the video all the more remarkable, however, was that Sanders' campaign manager, Faiz Shakir, was not too long ago the editor of ThinkProgress. Shakir said he had no comment on the matter. But his relationship with the officials at CAP is complicated, after he began providing assistance to Sanders' 2016 campaign—all of which was revealed during the dumping of stolen emails by Wikieaks during the late stages of that campaign. But there was an obvious explanation for why that grated on CAP officials. They were largely supportive of Hillary Clinton, from the organizations founder (John Podesta) to its current president (Neera Tanden). There is no Clinton in the race this go round. But, it appears, the skepticism towards Sanders persists.Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| Shock at arrest of deputy's son in black church fires Posted: 12 Apr 2019 02:27 PM PDT OPELOUSAS, La. (AP) — Authorities said he had no known criminal record. A friend described him as an introverted animal lover who showed no animosity toward any race, and a talented, if frustrated heavy metal guitar player and singer. A fellow musician called him "a really sweet guy."
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| Sudan's new military ruler vows to 'uproot' Bashir regime Posted: 13 Apr 2019 04:27 PM PDT  Sudan's second new military leader in as many days vowed Saturday to "uproot" deposed president Omar al-Bashir's regime and release protesters, in a bid to placate demonstrators demanding civilian rule. "I announce the restructuring of state institutions according to the law and pledge to fight corruption and uproot the regime and its symbols," General Abdel Fattah al-Burhan said, a day after he was sworn in to head Sudan's new ruling military council. Career soldier Burhan took the helm of Sudan's transitional military council on Friday when his predecessor General Awad Ibn Ouf -- a close aide of ousted veteran president Bashir -- quit after little more than 24 hours in power.
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| STORM ALERT: Tracking possible severe weather on Saturday Posted: 12 Apr 2019 05:35 AM PDT  Tornadoes and hail are possible, depending on where a warm front appears this weekend.
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| US STOCKS-Wall Street set to get a lift from JPMorgan results, big energy deal Posted: 12 Apr 2019 06:09 AM PDT ![US STOCKS-Wall Street set to get a lift from JPMorgan results, big energy deal]( "US STOCKS-Wall Street set to get a lift from JPMorgan results, big energy deal") U.S. stocks were set to open higher on Friday, boosted by better-than-expected results from JPMorgan, a $33 billion energy deal and signs of stability in Chinese economy. The S&P 500 e-minis were up 17.25 points, or 0.6% by 8:42 a.m. ET. JPMorgan Chase & Co rose 2.8% after the largest U.S. bank by assets beat quarterly profit estimates, easing fears that slowing economic growth could weigh on its results.
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| Apple, Facebook, Google Asked to Pay for Wind Parks in Denmark Posted: 12 Apr 2019 05:03 AM PDT ![Apple, Facebook, Google Asked to Pay for Wind Parks in Denmark]( "Apple, Facebook, Google Asked to Pay for Wind Parks in Denmark") The companies have chosen the Nordic country, partly because of its abundant supply of green electricity. The Red Green Alliance, a left-wing opposition party with 14 seats in parliament, wants a ban on new data centers until a law is in place that can ensure no business "mooches" on Denmark's efforts to achieve carbon-neutrality, according to a statement published by the party on Friday.
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| Tesla Finally Announces a Lease Program for the Model 3, Model S, and Model X Posted: 12 Apr 2019 07:20 AM PDT  The cheapest Model 3 is $504 per month for a 10,000-mile, 36-month lease.
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| After years of giving refuge, Ecuador suspends Assange's citizenship Posted: 11 Apr 2019 06:38 PM PDT  A bearded and frail-looking Assange was arrested by British police on Thursday after Ecuador terminated his asylum at its London embassy, where he had lived since 2012 to avoid extradition to Sweden over a sexual assault investigation. Assange's Ecuadorean citizenship was suspended on Wednesday, Foreign Minister Jose Valencia told reporters. To some, Australian-born Assange is a hero for exposing what supporters cast as abuse of power and for championing free speech.
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| Who is running for president in 2020? An interactive guide Posted: 12 Apr 2019 10:08 AM PDT  The 2020 field has become crowded in recent weeks. Here's a look at who has announced their candidacy or opened an exploratory committee in the hunt for the presidency.
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| Infiniti celebrates 30 years with special edition trim for Q50 Posted: 12 Apr 2019 07:04 AM PDT  Infiniti will be celebrating its 30th anniversary with the launch of a new trim for the Q50 sedan. The 2019 Q50 Signature Edition will debut next week at the New York International Auto Show. On Thursday Infiniti announced that it plans to celebrate its 30 years this year at the New York Auto Show with the launch of the 2019 Q50 Signature sedan.
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| Prosecutor asks for review of how Smollett case was handled Posted: 12 Apr 2019 12:58 PM PDT  CHICAGO (AP) — The Cook County state's attorney said Friday that she has asked the county's inspector general to review how her office handled "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett's criminal case.
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| Washington Detectives Make Arrest in 1972 Murder of 20-Year-Old Woman Posted: 11 Apr 2019 08:29 PM PDT  A 77-year-old Edmonds man has been charged in the rape and murder of Jody Loomis back in 1972.
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| Palestinian teen killed by Israeli fire in border clashes: Gaza ministry Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:44 AM PDT  A Palestinian teenager was shot dead by the Israeli army Friday during renewed clashes on the Gaza border, the health ministry in the Palestinian enclave said. A ministry spokesman said Maysara Abu Shaloof, 15, was "shot in the stomach by the (Israeli) occupation east of Jabalia," referring to a demonstration site in northern Gaza. At least 48 others were taken to hospital with a variety of injuries from clashes at several spots along the border, the ministry said without elaborating.
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| UPDATE 8-Chevron to buy Anadarko for $33 bln in shale, LNG push Posted: 12 Apr 2019 03:20 AM PDT ![UPDATE 8-Chevron to buy Anadarko for $33 bln in shale, LNG push]( "UPDATE 8-Chevron to buy Anadarko for $33 bln in shale, LNG push") Chevron Corp doubled down on its bet on surging U.S. oil and gas output on Friday, saying it would buy shale producer Anadarko Petroleum Corp for $33 billion in cash and stock that will make it the second-largest crude producer in the world. The combined company will produce an estimated 3.9 million barrels of oil equivalent per day (boepd), trailing only Exxon Mobil Corp among publicly traded companies, up from fourth.
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| Trump Knows Herman Cain’s Fed Nomination Is in Trouble, Sources Say Posted: 12 Apr 2019 09:11 AM PDT  Some of Trump's closest advisers want the FBI to finish its background check before he makes his decision on whether to formally nominate Cain, but others said they are aware of the misgivings of GOP senators and that they wouldn't be surprised if Cain withdraws. The people, who were granted anonymity to discuss internal White House deliberations, spoke hours after North Dakota Senator Kevin Cramer said he wouldn't back Cain if Trump nominated him to the Fed, and he hopes the president will make another choice.
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| View the All-New 2020 Nissan Versa in Photos Posted: 12 Apr 2019 01:17 PM PDT |
| Trump asylum policy gets temporary reprieve from Court of Appeals Posted: 12 Apr 2019 05:27 PM PDT  The asylum program was set to be shut down at 8 p.m. EDT (midnight GMT) by an order issued on Monday by U.S. District Court Judge Richard Seeborg, but the Trump administration had asked for the Court of Appeals in San Francisco to intervene. The Court of Appeals issued a two-paragraph order saying the lower court injunction was temporarily stayed while the parties prepare to submit arguments next week on the government's request for a longer stay that would remain in place for the months-long appeals process. The government told the Court of Appeals in papers filed late Thursday that the United States faced "a humanitarian and security crisis" at the southern border and needed to the policy to deal with surging number of refugees.
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| Is Charlotte Russe already making a comeback? New company hints it will re-open 100 stores Posted: 13 Apr 2019 03:44 PM PDT  Less than two weeks after hundreds of Charlotte Russe stores closed, the retailer's website and social media accounts are promoting a comeback.
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| Facebook is thinking about bringing Messenger back to the main app Posted: 12 Apr 2019 07:12 AM PDT  Of all the mistakes and confusing moves that Facebook has made over the years, one that still resonates to this day is the decision to spin Messenger off into its own app from the main Facebook app. As it stands, the only way to send a message to one of your Facebook friends on your phone is to download the Messenger app from the App Store or Google Play and log in to your account. But that might not be the case for much longer.Researcher Jane Manchun Wong, who regularly delves into the recesses of popular apps to see what the developers might have planned for future updates, spotted a new feature within Facebook's app which seems to indicate that the company is, at the very least, toying with the idea of combining the two apps once more.In the tweet below, not only does Wong show off the Facebook app redesign that should be landing in the next couple of months (one which looks eerily similar to the Messenger app redesign), but we also see that the Messenger button at the top of the app no longer redirects you to the Messenger app. Instead, it opens a new Chats section within the main Facebook app, where you can message anyone on your friends list:https://twitter.com/wongmjane/status/1116557782193299456Wong notes that the Chats feature only includes basic messaging functionality at the moment. If you want to make a call, send a photo, or use reactions, you'll have to go back to the Messenger app. All of this functionality could easily be added before the redesign goes live, but at least for now, there's still a reason for Messenger to exist.Undoubtedly, this new feature is part of Facebook's plan to unify all of its chat apps, including Instagram, Messenger, and WhatsApp. This unification reportedly won't happen in full until the end of 2019 or the beginning of 2020, but we might start to see the first signs of it with the next major Facebook app update.UPDATE | 2:41 PM: A Facebook spokesperson provided the following statement: "We are testing ways to improve the messaging experience for people within the Facebook app. Messenger remains a feature-rich, stand-alone messaging app with over a billion people using it monthly to connect with the people and businesses they care about most. We do not have any additional details to share at this time."
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| Black hole named 'Powehi' by Hawaii university professor Posted: 11 Apr 2019 08:27 PM PDT  HILO, Hawaii (AP) — A language professor has given a Hawaiian name — Powehi — to the black hole depicted in an image produced in a landmark experiment.
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| UPDATE 1-'Smart guy' Florida test taker pleads guilty in U.S. college admissions scandal Posted: 12 Apr 2019 12:33 PM PDT ![UPDATE 1-'Smart guy' Florida test taker pleads guilty in U.S. college admissions scandal]( "UPDATE 1-'Smart guy' Florida test taker pleads guilty in U.S. college admissions scandal") A former counselor at a Florida private school pleaded guilty on Friday to secretly taking college placement tests for the children of wealthy parents as part of the largest admissions fraud scheme uncovered in U.S. history. Mark Riddell, 36, was charged from a role in the scheme that prosecutors said allowed wealthy parents including the actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin to use cheating and bribes to help their children secure spots at universities like Yale, Georgetown and the University of Southern California. Riddell pleaded guilty in Boston federal court to conspiracy to commit mail fraud and conspiracy to commit money laundering, prosecutors said on Twitter.
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| Assange aide arrested trying to leave Ecuador: official Posted: 11 Apr 2019 07:35 PM PDT  A collaborator of WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange was arrested Thursday in Ecuador while trying to flee to Japan, the South American country's interior minister said. Maria Paula Romo did not identify the person but told Sonorama radio he was very close to Assange, who was arrested Thursday in London on a US extradition request after spending seven years in the Ecuadoran embassy there. Channel Teleamazonas identified him as Ola Bini, a software developer focused on privacy, security and cryptography, but did not name its source.
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| 2020 Vision: Democratic field now largest in history Posted: 12 Apr 2019 11:48 AM PDT  With 18 candidates, the 2020 Democratic field is now the largest ever for a major party's presidential nomination.
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| From the C/D Archives: How Has the Volkswagen Jetta GLI Changed from 1988 to 2019? Posted: 13 Apr 2019 11:30 AM PDT  It's remarkable how similar our 1988 model test is to the one we published last week.
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