| Planned ICE raids show Trump runs the U.S. like his business — with no idea what he's doing Posted: 12 Jul 2019 03:02 PM PDT  U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents conduct a raid in Southern California. How will the Trump administration contain potential violence? Trump almost certainly doesn't know, just as he has no clue how to reconcile his party's need for suburban female voters with the inevitable images of frightened families being hauled off to detention facilities.
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| Two escape from Florida farm where a couple was preparing for Armageddon, police say Posted: 13 Jul 2019 01:04 PM PDT  The females reported they were physically and sexually abused by the couple, who stockpiled "food rations and weapons" in case of disaster.
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| Chevron spills 800,000 gallons of oil, water in California Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:55 PM PDT  Officials began to clean up a massive oil spill Friday that dumped nearly 800,000 gallons of oil and water into a California canyon, making it larger — if less devastating — than the state's last two major oil spills. The newly revealed spill has been flowing off and on since May and has again stopped, Chevron spokeswoman Veronica Flores-Paniagua said. Chevron reported that 794,000 gallons (about 3 million liters) of oil and water have leaked out of the ground where it uses steam injection to extract oil in the large Cymric Oil Field about 35 miles (56 kilometers) west of Bakersfield.
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| Will Nationalism Poison Ukraine's New President? Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:53 AM PDT  Ever since Volodymyr Zelensky's upset victory in April, Ukrainians have been wondering whether their newly elected president will take new approaches to resolve the conflict with Russia. His thumping victory over Petro Poroshenko, who tried to dismiss all of his opponents as puppets of Russian Vladimir Putin puppets, uncovered a strong, untapped desire to end the Russophobia that has been porminant with over the past five years. During that time, the Poroshenko and other senior government officials routinely referred to Ukrainians who wanted better relations with Russia as a "fifth column."During the campaign Zelensky outflanked Poroshenko by promising to do anything to achieve peace, including direct negotiations with Putin. Since winning the election, however, Zelensky has backtracked from this pledge and reassured the West that he has no intention of negotiating with Putin without Western intermediaries present. In sum, he continues to try to be everything to everyone by telling each person whatever it is they want to hear.
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| Delta nearly joined its rivals in buying the troubled Boeing 737 Max Posted: 13 Jul 2019 04:39 AM PDT  The airline's CEO said it was a "close call" to pass on the plane, which has been grounded after two lethal crashes in five months.
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| Iranian foreign minister heads to New York for U.N. conference: IRNA Posted: 13 Jul 2019 07:51 AM PDT  Iranian Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif traveled to New York on Saturday to a United Nations conference, Iran's state news agency IRNA reported, amid rising tension between Washington and Tehran. The United States and Iran are at loggerheads over Tehran's nuclear program and Washington has blamed Iranian forces for attacks on oil tankers in the Gulf region, a charge Tehran denies.
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| Why Was an American Scientist Murdered in a Nazi Bunker? Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:25 AM PDT  Courtesy of Suzanne Eaton FamilySuzanne Eaton was, by every standard, an accomplished woman. The 59-year-old molecular biologist from Oakland, California, held a black belt in Taekwondo and was a globetrotting speaker on the international science circuit. She was married to a British scientist with whom she had two children, and she was an avid runner, racking up several miles on her daily 30-minute run.Eaton, who worked as a research leader at the Max Planck Institute of Molecular Cell Biology and Genetics in Dresden, Germany, was last seen playing piano at the Orthodox Academy of Crete, in Kolymbari, on July 2, where she was attending a conference. Her family and friends assumed that she had gone for a run and perhaps passed out in the stifling heat wave or fallen on rough terrain during her workout. Her passport, money, phone, cycling shoes, and laptop were all found in her hotel room, they say. All that was missing were her running shoes. Her relatives and friends raised nearly $50,000 to aid the search through an online campaign. Then, on July 9, her body was found by two local residents exploring a World War II-era Nazi bunker about seven miles from where Eaton had been staying. Her body, which was wrapped in burlap, showed signs of torture, including stab wounds, but her official cause of death, according to the coroner, was asphyxiation. The coroner said she likely suffered a "slow and painful death."There was no immediate sign of sexual violence, according to investigators, who said she was still dressed when she was found. A full autopsy is under way. Her body was in such an advanced state of decomposition after a week in the extreme heat that dental records had to be used for a positive identification. On Friday, Crete's police spokesperson Eleni Papathanasiou confirmed to The Daily Beast that they were questioning several suspects, including some with neo-Nazi ties, who may know something about what happened to Eaton. Papathanasiou also said they were looking into whether the location of her body inside a labyrinth of tunnels dug out by Nazis occupying Crete during World War II was connected to the murder. "It is of course part of the investigation," Papathanasiou told The Daily Beast. "It is a curious place to leave a body, especially when the victim was living and working in Germany."Police are also taking into consideration how a woman as fit as Eaton who held a black belt in Taekwondo could be overcome. "The perpetrator or perpetrators may have suffered defensive wounds, and we are looking at that as well."Crete has long been a magnet for neo-Nazi sympathizers who regularly treasure hunt in bunkers like the one where Eaton was found, searching for World War II relics. Several collectors have unofficial museums in small villages where their Nazi regalia is on display. Crete was also a recent base for several leaders of the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party who had chosen the Greek island for its historical ties to Nazi occupation. In 2018, an anti-Fascist group was able to raid the Golden Dawn headquarters in the capital Heraklion, which sent the group underground. Konstantinos Beblidakis, the vice mayor of the local Platanias municipality, said the area where Eaton was found was accessible by various back roads but there were no surveillance cameras despite the fact that the area above the bunkers was a popular hiking area for tourists. He said that most people, except those who are well versed in the island's Nazi past, would not have known about the bunker, which was not open to the public or marked in any way. It is as yet unclear how the two local residents found her or just why they were inside the secret bunker. Eaton's university-age son, Max, praised his mother in a statement. "She managed to live a life with few regrets, balancing out her personal life with her career," he said. "I think the fact that I did not realize how well she had managed to do so was evident [by the fact] that other mothers around me had taken to caring for their children full time, yet mine was never outdone by any of them."Read more at The Daily Beast.Get our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Woman suing landlord for evicting her after ‘having African American guest over’ Posted: 13 Jul 2019 08:10 AM PDT  A white mother says she was evicted because she invited African American guests to a playdate.Victoria Sutton had her black co-worker visit with their five-year-old son, so that the youngster could play with her two daughters.After one of the playdates, a new lawsuit says, landlord Allen McCoy knocked on the door of her Georgia home and called her a "n***** lover."She also claims he threatened to call Child Protective Services over her having a "n***** on their property."The lawsuit - filed by lawyers from the ACLU \- says she was told she had two weeks to move out and that he had previously evicted a woman who wanted an African American to move in with her.As a result, she says she moved out of the home in December over concerns for her and her daughter's safety.When confronted by a news reporter, Mr McCoy denied the allegations, saying: "Some of the best friends I got is coloured."His wife Patricia instead claimed Sutton had been asked to move out because of damage to bathrooms, walls and doors.But legal papers filed by Ms Sutton say photographs show no such damage.Lawyers are asking for damages related to emotional distress and the "diversion of resources" in having to move.Sean J Young, legal director for the ACLU of Georgia, told CNN: "Discriminatory motives are rarely spoken aloud and even more rarely caught on tape. People who discriminate are almost always able to come up with a neutral-sounding pretext for their discrimination."He said a ruling in Ms Sutton's favour would be "a stark reminder of the injustice that continues to thrive in Georgia today".
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| US plans Gulf naval escorts after Iranians menace UK oil tanker Posted: 11 Jul 2019 06:21 PM PDT  The Pentagon said Thursday it was discussing military escorts for vessels in the Gulf one day after armed Iranian boats threatened a British oil tanker. "I think that that will be developing over the next couple weeks," Milley told the Senate Armed Services Committee. Tensions in the Gulf have increased in the past few weeks, with Iran's economy in free fall following the re-imposition of US sanctions after President Donald Trump pulled out from a 2015 international agreement to curb Iran's nuclear program.
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| VP Pence views overcrowded, bad-smelling facility for detained migrants in Texas Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:27 AM PDT  Vice President Mike Pence viewed an overcrowded, foul-smelling facility in Texas on Friday, where nearly 400 men are detained after being accused of crossing the U.S. border illegally.
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| Dead Drone: Are Iran and America Headed Towards a Bloody War? Posted: 12 Jul 2019 01:17 PM PDT  Deptula said the Pentagon must modernize its "geriatric air force with systems that have been designed to operate against high-threat capabilities like stealth fighters, bombers and [intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance] aircraft."Iran's destruction of a U.S. Navy Global Hawk surveillance drone over the Strait of Hormuz on June 20, 2019 shouldn't deter U.S. forces from monitoring the strategic waterway, officials said.Retired U.S. Air Force general David Deptula, dean of the Air Force Association's Mitchell Institute, told Air Force magazine he would put an additional Global Hawk "in the exact same track." "We certainly don't want to be cowed," Deptula said.(This first appeared earlier in July 2019.)Northrop built four Broad-Area Maritime Surveillance-Demonstrator drones, based on the Global Hawk platform, for the Navy starting in 2008. The Navy has stationed two of them in the United Arab Emirates for operational use as it prepares to deploy the full MQ-4C naval version of the Global Hawk starting in late 2019.
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| Louisiana under state of emergency as Tropical Storm Barry nears landfall — here's what it looks like on the ground Posted: 12 Jul 2019 12:19 PM PDT  The storm is expected to strengthen into a hurricane over the weekend, threatening downpours that could flood local levees and rivers.
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| Secretary of Labor Alex Acosta is out — here are all the casualties of the Trump administration so far Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:34 AM PDT  From John Kelly and Rex Tillerson to Anthony Scaramucci and Reince Priebus, here's everyone who has left the Trump administration so far.
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| New Zealand gun owners turn over their weapons for money Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:36 PM PDT  Dozens of Christchurch gun owners on Saturday handed over their weapons in exchange for money, in the first of more than 250 planned buyback events around New Zealand after the government outlawed many types of semi-automatics. Police said they paid more than 430,000 New Zealand dollars ($288,000) to 169 gun owners during the event. The money was paid directly into the bank accounts of gun owners.
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| California boy, 4, who died begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with birth parents Posted: 13 Jul 2019 09:44 AM PDT  A 4-year-old California boy who mysteriously died under his birth parents'care had begged his great-grandmother not to be reunited with them, KTLAreports
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| Hawaii governor declares emergency for Maui wildfires Posted: 12 Jul 2019 12:44 AM PDT  Hawaii's governor on Friday declared an emergency on the island of Maui, where firefighters were battling a blaze that forced the evacuations of thousands of people and sent huge clouds of smoke billowing over nearby beaches. Although most of the evacuees were later allowed to return home, the blaze more than tripled in size to spread over about 9,000 acres (3,642 hectares), scorching mostly former sugarcane fields and brush. "I am declaring our Valley Isle a disaster area for the purpose of implementing the emergency management functions as allowed by law," Governor David Ige said in a statement.
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| Unprecedented fires burn the Arctic Posted: 13 Jul 2019 08:35 AM PDT  Smoke is rising over the forests of Alaska and Siberia.The World Meteorological Organization called the wildfires now burning around the Arctic "unprecedented." The United Nations agency noted that over 100 intense fires burned in the Arctic Circle alone over the past six weeks, releasing more carbon dioxide into the atmosphere than Sweden does in an entire year. A rare fire even ignited in Greenland, amid unusually hot and dry weather.Amplified wildfires are an expected, predictable consequence of a warming climate. This is all the more true in the Arctic, a sprawling region that is heating up twice as fast as the rest of the globe. The profound changes here can be easily observed over the Arctic ocean, too, where sea ice has broken records for melting throughout the 2019 summer.Over the course of 10 days in July, Alaskan wildfires burned an area of land the size of Rhode Island. This is way above normal -- though this doesn't match Alaska's extreme burning of 2015. > Alaska wildfires have now burned 1.28 million acres (519k ha), the 3rd highest total to date (since 1993) according to @BLM_AFS analysis. This includes 1218 square miles burned in July. That's one Rhode Island in 10 days. akwx wildfire @Climatologist49 @IARC_Alaska @TScottRupp pic.twitter.com/gVTIox3x2k> > -- Rick Thoman (@AlaskaWx) July 10, 2019> Record-breaking heat in Alaska has exacerbated clusters of wildfires burning throughout the state. https://t.co/8zqVC5JAjx NASA MODIS fire pic.twitter.com/64zL7gYETx> > -- NASA Earth (@NASAEarth) July 11, 2019The largely Arctic state, however, just had its warmest 12-month period on record.SEE ALSO: Climate change will ruin train tracks and make travel hellJust across the Bering Sea, in Siberia, NASA satellite images from July 13 show dense smoke swirling over eastern Russia, with red spots designating wildfires.Fires in Siberia on July 13, 2019.Image: nasa worldviewWhile a warming climate itself doesn't create weather events or fires, it amplifies these events and significantly boosts the odds of such events occurring. That's why leading climate scientists emphasize looking at the bigger picture -- and following trends.And the trends are clear. On Earth, 18 of the 19 warmest years on record have occurred since 2001. Warmer climes mean an atmosphere that holds more water, which translates to a boost in pummeling deluges -- like the type that flooded Washington, D.C. earlier this week. The U.S. just experienced its wettest 12 months in 124 years of recorded history. Such warming also means momentous declines in Arctic sea ice, amplified, growing drought in arid swathes of the United States, and fires that are burning for weeks longer than they were in the 1980sThe future may have its many unknowns. But it's almost certain that the Arctic will be a smokier place as the region continues a relentless, accelerating warming trend. This July, Anchorage hit 90 degrees Fahrenheit. That's the hottest day ever recorded in the city's history. WATCH: Ever wonder how the universe might end?
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| Canada says another citizen detained in China amid row Posted: 13 Jul 2019 05:00 PM PDT  China detained another Canadian citizen amid sour relations between the two countries, Canada's foreign ministry said on Saturday, though the reason for the jailing remains unclear. "Global Affairs Canada is aware of the detention of a Canadian citizen in Yantai, China," a spokesman told AFP. The detention follows Beijing's jailing of two Canadians earlier this year after Meng Wanzhou, chief financial officer for Chinese tech giant Huawei, was taken into custody in Vancouver on a warrant from the United States.
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| Police ID pregnant woman, 9-year-old son killed in flash flooding in Pennsylvania Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:58 PM PDT  Police have identified the pregnant woman and her 9-year-old son who were killed as severe storms hit Berks County, Pennsylvania Thursday night.
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| AOC’s Chief of Staff Admits the Green New Deal Is Not about Climate Change Posted: 12 Jul 2019 05:44 AM PDT  Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's chief of staff Saikat Chakrabarti admitted recently that the true motivation behind introducing the Green New Deal is to overhaul the "entire economy."Chakrabarti said that addressing climate change was not Ocasio-Cortez's top priority in proposing the Green New Deal during a meeting with Washington governor Jay Inslee."The interesting thing about the Green New Deal, is it wasn't originally a climate thing at all," Chakrabarti said to Inslee's climate director, Sam Ricketts, according to a Washington Post reporter who attended the meeting for a profile published Wednesday."Do you guys think of it as a climate thing?" Because we really think of it as a how-do-you-change-the-entire-economy thing," he added.The Green New Deal, proposed earlier this year by Ocasio-Cortez and Senator Ed Markey (D., Mass.), would transition the U.S. economy entirely away from fossil fuels within ten years while simultaneously providing a federal jobs and healthcare guarantee. It would also, according to its proponents, advance "social, economic, racial, regional and gender-based justice and equality and cooperative and public ownership."All told, the proposal will cost up to $93 trillion in new government spending over ten years, according to a recent report by the conservative American Action Forum.
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| Police officer who lost his job after shooting an unarmed man is ‘rehired to collect lifetime pension’ Posted: 13 Jul 2019 06:11 AM PDT  A police officer who was charged with murder for shooting an unarmed man in a hotel hallway was reportedly rehired temporarily so he could collect a pension, local media reports.Philip Brailsford, who killed Daniel Shaver at La Quinta hotel in Arizona in 2016, reportedly came to the agreement last year with the Mesa city manager's office. This allowed him to apply for a disability pension on the basis of a medical retirement in a reversal of his firing by the department after the shooting.He will receive a lifetime pension of around $30,000 per year.The agreement was first reported by local news outlets in Arizona, which obtained the settlement agreement that the city reached with Mr Brailsford last August.Mr Shaver's shooting captured media attention across the US when it happened in 2016, and again after Mr Brailsford's trial when his body camera video was released.Police were called to the hotel in January 2016 following a complaint about a man with a rifle in one of the rooms. Mr Shaver, 26, had been showing a legal pellet gun that he used in his job in pest control, to a woman in the room with him.Body camera footage begins with the confrontation between Mr Brailsford, other officers, and Mr Shaver and the woman. Mr Shaver complies with a series of confusing commands from the responding officers, putting his hands up and lying down on the ground.They threaten to kill him multiple times for not complying with their orders."If you move, we're going to consider that a threat and we are going to deal with it and you may not survive it," one officer says. "Please do not shoot me," Mr Shaver says at one point, his hands in the air. But Mr Brailsford opened fire after Mr Shaver appeared to reach behind himself while crawling towards the officers. He was struck five times.Mr Brailsford, who was carrying an AR-15 rifle with the phrase "You're F****d" etched into the weapon, according to a police report, was charged with murder for the shooting and fired from his job soon after.He testified in court that he believed Mr Shaver was reaching for a gun and would have done the same thing again.He was acquitted in November 2017 after a six-week trial on both second-degree murder and reckless manslaughter charges.The settlement notes that Mr Brailsford has been treated for post-traumatic stress disorder. Michael Piccarreta, his lawyer, told ABC 15 his PTSD stemmed from the shooting incident and criminal prosecution. Mesa City manager Chris Brady told ABC 15 that Mr Brailsford's PTSD claim dates to before his trial. "So in fairness he was given the opportunity to make that appeal to the board," he said. The shooting prompted a multimillion-dollar lawsuit filed by Mr Shaver's family, which is still pending.Washington Post
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| AP: Public unions see only modest decline after court ruling Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:38 AM PDT  Anticipating that the U.S. Supreme Court might end mandatory union fees for public employees, some labor-friendly states enacted laws last year to protect membership rolls while unions redoubled their recruitment efforts. Union membership among public employees has fallen only slightly in the nation's most unionized states since the Supreme Court ruled a year ago that government workers no longer could be required to pay union fees, according to an analysis of federal data conducted for The Associated Press. The decline in union membership rates has been larger in states that had previously allowed mandatory fees to be deducted from the paychecks of public school teachers, police and other government workers than in states that had not.
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| Trump again claims that his immigration deal with Mexico included secret concessions Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:32 AM PDT  Trump has sought to emphasize that claim since reports said that many aspects of the arrangement had been reached before the US threatened tariffs.
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| Pakistani traders strike over IMF austerity measures Posted: 13 Jul 2019 05:04 AM PDT ![Pakistani traders strike over IMF austerity measures]( "Pakistani traders strike over IMF austerity measures") Markets and wholesale merchants across Pakistan closed on Saturday in a strike by businesses against measures demanded by the International Monetary Fund to crack down on tax evasion and bolster the country's depleted public finances. In Karachi, the country's main commercial city, around 80% of markets dealing in bulk goods were closed, said Atiq Mir, president of the All Karachi Traders Alliance, which represents hundreds of markets in the city. "Government policies have created mistrust in trade and industry," said Mir, who added that traders were already struggling with corrupt tax officials demanding bribes.
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| Hurricane warning issued in Louisiana as Tropical Storm Barry gains strength in Gulf of Mexico Posted: 11 Jul 2019 07:59 PM PDT  Tropical Storm Barry formed in the Gulf of Mexico and is expected to hit Louisiana and already-soaked New Orleans as a hurricane Saturday.
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| Sudan's desert nomads untouched by Bashir's downfall Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:44 PM PDT  Not far from Sudan's capital Khartoum, the epicentre of an uprising that toppled autocratic ruler Omar al-Bashir, dozens of camel traders are oblivious to the country's biggest political upheaval in decades. "I love the desert and drinking camel milk is enough to make me happy," Habiballah told AFP during a tour of El Molih's camel market. Sudan has been rocked by a political crisis since December 19, when protests erupted against the tripling of bread prices by the then government of Bashir.
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| Hypersonic War: The Weapons of the Future Have Arrived Posted: 12 Jul 2019 06:07 AM PDT  Aircraft capable of hypersonic flight will be able to penetrate layered anti-aircraft defenses. During its career as one of the Air Force's premier Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR) platforms, the venerable SR-71, which could fly at speeds up to Mach 3, was fired upon unsuccessfully hundreds of times. A new technological competition has begun, one in which America's rivals, particularly Russia and China, may be ahead. This is the race to build and put in the field super-fast or hypersonic weapons and vehicles. The military defines a hypersonic weapon as one that travels at least Mach 5 or five times the speed of sound. In comparison, commercial aircraft fly at around Mach 1 while some military jets can push themselves to around Mach 3, but only for a short time.There are two basic types of hypersonic weapons: super-fast cruise missiles, and boost-glide vehicles that are mounted on ballistic missiles. Hypersonic cruise missiles, which would most commonly be launched from aircraft, maintain powered flight from launch to impact. Boost-glide vehicles are lofted by a ballistic missile launched from an aircraft, ship, submarine or ground unit to the edge of space from which point they use their speed and aerodynamic design to skip along the top of the atmosphere for up to 10,000 miles.(This first appeared in June 2019.)
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| Read the Transcript of TIME's Interview With Benjamin Netanyahu Posted: 13 Jul 2019 04:00 AM PDT  Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu sat down with TIME correspondents in Jerusalem on June 25. Here's a transcript of what he said.
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| Hero Dad Dies in Rip Current After Passing His Drowning Daughter, 8, to Mom at Florida Beach Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:19 AM PDT  Dad Dies After Saving Daughter in Florida Rip Current
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| Trump asks Supreme Court to unfreeze border wall money Posted: 12 Jul 2019 04:45 PM PDT  The Trump administration on Friday asked the Supreme Court to lift a freeze on Pentagon money it wants to use to build sections of a border wall with Mexico. Two lower courts have ruled against the administration in a lawsuit over the funding. Last week, a divided three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco kept in place a lower court ruling preventing the government from tapping Defense Department counterdrug money to build high-priority sections of wall in Arizona, California and New Mexico.
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| Michigan Man Allegedly Shot Two Men ‘Because They Were Gay’: Prosecutors Posted: 13 Jul 2019 12:02 PM PDT  Leon Neal/GettyA Michigan man was charged Friday for allegedly shooting two men he contacted through a dating app "before they were gay." Demetris Nelson, 26, was charged with several crimes, including first-degree murder, after allegedly trying to rob and fatally shoot Brian Anderson, 31, and critically wounding 26-year-old Malcolm Drake, Wayne County prosecutor's office said. Authorities say Nelson used the popular dating app, Grindr, to target and locate the two men. If convicted, he faces up to life in prison for the murder charge. "To some, this will be just another hateful and violent act in America. They will read about this case and continue to go about their day. To me, that is quite tragic," Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said in a statement.Two Men Sentenced for Serial Anti-Gay Hate Crimes Using GrindrProsecutors allege on July 6, Nelson used the app to "targeted Anderson and Drake because they were gay." The pair were driving along a highway less than a mile from Nelson's Detroit home, prosecutors during Nelson's arraignment Friday, when the 26-year-old got into the back of the vehicle. After announcing a robbery, Nelson shot Drake in the back of the head, then fatally shot Anderson."We are saddened and outraged by this despicable crime. This case is just the most recent example of how members of Detroit's LGBTQ community are too often targets of violence," Alanna Maguire, president of the Fair Michigan Foundation, a nonprofit civil rights group assisting in the investigation, said in a statement. Nelson set up a series of social networking profiles, including Grindr, with the intent on finding victims and is being investigated in a series of other similar incidents, prosecutors said in court Friday.According to WXYZ, the July 6 incident might be Nelson's latest series of incidents involving people he met on online dating apps. Nelson, who allegedly uses different profiles and aliases to avoid being caught, allegedly robbed another victim two hours before he fatally shooting the two Detroit men. On Friday evening, a judge ordered Nelson to be held without bail. He is expected in court on July 26. Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more.
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| Chernobyl's power plant managers 'hid' their radiation levels so they could protect cleanup workers, according to former deputy director Posted: 12 Jul 2019 06:00 AM PDT  Workers on the cleanup site had to record their radiation levels using a dosimeter, or a device that measures a person's dose of radiation.
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| Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties Posted: 13 Jul 2019 06:00 AM PDT ![Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties]( "Indian authorities arrest top executive at retailer Future Group over unpaid duties") Indian federal authorities arrested a top executive at the retail conglomerate Future Group, one of the largest retailers in the country, on customs fraud charges involving more than $2 million of unpaid customs duties on garment imports, a government statement said on Saturday. The Directorate of Revenue Intelligence, part of India's finance ministry, arrested Dinesh Maheshwari, executive director and chief financial officer of Future Enterprises Ltd, for flouting import rules that allow duty-free shipments of certain items under a free trade pact with Bangladesh.
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| Obama sends letter to prisoner he freed, who made the dean's list: 'I am so proud of you' Posted: 12 Jul 2019 07:50 AM PDT  President Obama granted clemency to Danielle Metz in 2016. After she made the dean's list in college, she wished she could thank him. Now, she has.
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| Storm Area 51: More than 600,000 people sign up to raid secretive military base to ‘see them aliens’ Posted: 13 Jul 2019 02:01 AM PDT  Over 600,000 people have signed up to an event to "storm Area 51" – the top secret US military base in the Nevada desert – in a quest to "see them aliens".The event, titled "Storm Area 51, they can't stop all of us", invites attendees to congregate en mass before entering the base together.The event, organised on Facebook, appears to be a tongue in cheek invitation, rather than the first signs of a radical civil disobedience movement.This is made clear by the reference to the highly-classified military base as the "Area 51 Alien Centre tourist attraction"."If we naruto run, we can move faster than their bullets. Lets see them aliens," the invitation says.To "naruto run" is to run at high speed in the style of Naruto Ozumaki – title character in the Japanese anime series Naruto – who runs with his head down and arms behind his back. The event, if it can be called such, is scheduled for 20 September.The mysterious and heavily guarded Area 51 has been at the centre of numerous conspiracy theories for decades, with supposed connections to humanoid alien life forms and their supposed space ships.It featured in the 1996 alien invasion film Independence Day as an alien testing laboratory, but the base's real primary function remains unknown.It was only formally recognised as a military base in 2013 following a 2005 Freedom of Information Act request.The perimeter of the base is constantly patrolled by armed security guards and CCTV and motion-sensor cameras are also in use.Signs around the base advise that "deadly force" is authorised against trespassers.Military aviation website TheAviationist.com spoke to a local company which offers tours up to the edge of the Area 51 facility, and who warned any attempt to reach the base would be "very stupid".Donna Tryon reportedly said: "Area 51 is not a joke. No matter what is going on there, people need to remember, this is a military facility. You wouldn't get far."The website detailed an incident in which a tour driver from the company had inadvertently crossed into the restricted area which resulted in the arrest of the driver and the vehicle's occupants. On previous occasions the tours have been "buzzed" by military aircraft, and people have had red laser sight dots appear on their foreheads from the desert, the website said.Though the invitation to storm Area 51 appears to be a joke, last month The Pentagon provided a very real classified briefing to members of Congress about reported encounters by US navy pilots with unidentified aircraft, some of which were said to have no visible engines and could reach hypersonic speeds.Earlier this year, a number of pilots reported seeing the objects on an almost daily basis from the summer of 2014 to March 2015 while flying navy jets off the East Coast. Some of the encounters were captured on video and lead the navy to announce it had updated the way pilots were to formally reports the incidents."Navy officials did indeed meet with interested congressional members and staffers on Wednesday to provide a classified brief on efforts to understand and identify these threats to the safety and security of our aviators," the navy said in a statement last month."These things would be out there all day," Lt Ryan Graves, an F/A-18 Super Hornet pilot with ten years experience with the navy, told the New York Times in May. "Keeping an aircraft in the air requires a significant amount of energy. With the speeds we observed, 12 hours in the air is 11 hours longer than we'd expect."
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| E Jean Carroll says she received death threats after accusing Trump of rape Posted: 12 Jul 2019 10:07 AM PDT  Exclusive: advice columnist says for the first time in her life she has bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom * 'I accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Now I sleep with a loaded gun'E Jean Carroll's rape allegations are contained in her new book What Do We Need Men For? Photograph: Craig Ruttle/APE Jean Carroll, the esteemed New York journalist who has alleged Donald Trump raped her in the Bergdorf Goodman department store in Manhattan in the 1990s, now sleeps with a loaded gun by her bed having received online death threats.In the course of a two-hour interview with the Guardian in her upstate New York cabin, the advice columnist described the fallout of her decision to go public last month with the most serious allegations of sexual assault yet leveled at the US president. She said she had received so many threats that she had been forced to stop looking at her social media feeds, and for the first time in her life had bullets loaded into the handgun in her bedroom."I'm not stupid," Carroll said in reference to the threats and the loaded gun. But she added she has also been buoyed by the number of women who had commented or written to her in vast numbers."The mail bag is huge, I can't begin to get through it. Women are telling me their stories – and that's the biggest thank you you can get."Carroll's rape allegations are contained in her new book What Do We Need Men For? In it she gives an account of how she bumped into Trump at Bergdorf's one evening in late 1995 or early 1996.They chatted, and when Trump tried to get her to put on an item of lingerie she told him to put it on. Together, they entered a small dressing room where he allegedly attacked her.Carroll has avoided using the word "rape" to describe the incident, but she agrees that what she says occurred fits the legal definition of rape.The journalist did not report the incident to police but she did tell two close friends about what allegedly occurred. The friends, both prominent media figures, have confirmed her account about their conversations.Trump has denied the allegations, saying he has never known Carroll even though a photograph surfaced of the two with their then respective spouses at a 1987 party. He has also said "she's not my type".The Guardian asked Carroll whether she had any doubts about the identity of her alleged rapist. She replied: "Zero. Zero. Recognizing him was a big deal for me."In an excerpt of her book carried by New York magazine three weeks ago, she said she had kept the black Donna Karan coat-dress she had worn that evening "unworn and unlaundered" behind her closet door. Carroll is only the second woman to come forward with rape allegations against Trump. The first was his then wife Ivana Trump, who alleged in divorce papers he had raped her during the marriage, though she later moderated the account to say she had not used the word "rape" in a "literal or criminal sense".Even with such serious allegations, Carroll's book received an initially restrained response from the US media. The New York Times placed a report on her account of Trump attacking her in its books pages, while Barnes & Noble initially located the book in its flagship New York store in the fourth-floor women's studies section."You want to know how to bury a book? That's how you do it," Carroll said.Carroll told the Guardian she hesitated for years coming forward with her allegations, describing herself as a "coward". She also suspected that branding Trump a sex attacker might paradoxically help him politically."It's the image of a male leader – think Alexander the Great, think Genghis Khan. Think John F Kennedy. Great leaders take what they want without asking."Despite having raised rape allegations against the sitting US president, Carroll is convinced Trump will win re-election in next year's presidential election. "No matter what anyone does, Trump will win. I think he's got it sewn up."In her view, the chances of a strong female Democrat such as US senators Kamala Harris or Elizabeth Warren competing with Trump and winning were nil. "America can't take a woman as leader. We have a woman problem."Asked for her advice to Harris were she to win the Democratic nomination and face Trump in a presidential debate, she replied: "If I was Kamala, I would go over and just slap his face. Take that! First with the left and then the right. That would be so good."• Read the full Guardian interview with E Jean Carroll in Saturday's Weekend magazine, or return to this article on Saturday morning to find a link to the interview
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| VIDEO: Burger King manager told 'go back to Mexico' by customer in Florida Posted: 12 Jul 2019 11:13 AM PDT  Video shows a manager of a Florida Burger King being told by a customer to "go back to Mexico."
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| Despite US warnings, Russian S-400 systems land in Turkey Posted: 12 Jul 2019 09:19 AM PDT  The first shipment of a Russian missile defense system has arrived in Turkey, the Turkish Defense Ministry said Friday, moving the country closer to possible U.S. sanctions and a new standoff with Washington. A Defense Ministry statement said "the first group of equipment" of the S-400 air defense systems has reached the Murted Air Base near the capital, Ankara. The U.S. has strongly urged NATO member Turkey to pull back from the deal — reportedly costing more than $2 billion — warning the country that it will face economic sanctions under the Countering America's Adversaries Through Sanctions Act if it goes ahead with the purchase.
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