| New Fox News poll on impeachment contradicts its most loyal viewer — President Trump Posted: 15 Dec 2019 08:57 AM PST  A new Fox News poll on voter support for impeachment contradicted President Trump, who recently boasted major support in favor of "No Impeachment."
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| Inmate's suicide shows need for reforms, advocates say Posted: 15 Dec 2019 07:43 AM PST  The final two months of Cachin Anderson's life in New York's prison system were filled with warnings he was a man in crisis. Prisoner advocates say Anderson's death and others illustrate how New York's prison system fails to ensure the safety of inmates who might hurt themselves if left alone in a cell. New York state prison inmates in solitary confinement or long-term "keeplock" units, in which inmates are isolated, were over five times more likely to kill themselves than prisoners in general confinement, according to a report from the Department of Corrections and Community Supervision.
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| Holocaust architect's grave dug up in Berlin Posted: 16 Dec 2019 05:42 AM PST  The grave of a top Nazi who helped plan the Holocaust and was assassinated by British-trained agents during World War II has been dug up in Berlin, German police said on Monday. The grave of Reinhard Heydrich was "dug up in the night between Wednesday and Thursday" and an investigation has been opened on charges of disturbing a burial site, a police spokeswoman told AFP. Heydrich was the powerful head of Hitler's Reich Security Office, which included the Gestapo.
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| Police search for missing Texas mother and her newborn girl Posted: 15 Dec 2019 08:51 PM PST  Police in Austin are searching for Heide Broussard and her 2-week-old child, Margot Carey
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| The 11 Cars We Are Most Excited About Driving in 2020 Posted: 16 Dec 2019 09:31 AM PST |
| A flight bound for New York took off from Germany, flew for 8 hours, then landed 85 miles from where it started Posted: 16 Dec 2019 09:01 AM PST  Passengers flying from Frankfurt to New York endured an extremely frustrating day last week when they ended up turning back halfway over the Atlantic.
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| The Real Meaning of the Statues on Easter Island Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:24 PM PST  The stone monoliths have stumped scientists for centuries. Not anymore.
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| Argentina gang behind British tourist murder held welcome signs in airport arrival, say officials Posted: 16 Dec 2019 12:09 PM PST  The Argentinian crime gang which killed a British businessman held welcome signs in the airport arrivals hall as cover to spot wealthy tourists, officials say, as four men have been arrested in connection with the murder. Property magnate Matthew Gibbard and his family arrived at Ezeiza International Airport in Buenos Aires on Saturday morning, and were identified as targets because of their "high-end watches", according to a spokesman for the Ministry of Justice and Security in Argentina. CCTV shows that they were followed to their five star hotel across town, where Mr Gibbard, 50, and his stepson Stefan Zone, 28 were held up and shot while trying to fight off their attackers. Mr Gibbard died shortly afterwards and Mr Zone remains in hospital with a gunshot wound to the leg, which narrowly missed his femoral artery. One witness, who arrived in the aftermath of the shooting told a local news crew that he saw Mr Gibbard's wife next to her husband screaming "stay with me, stay with me." He added that "the son was also screaming in pain on the floor. It was very chaotic and disturbing." Guards were outside the Faena hotel in Buenos Aires after the attack Credit: AP Photo/Natacha Pisarenko In a press conference yesterday, the Chief of Security for Buenos Aires, Marcelo D'Alessandro said: "This gang works in the arrivals hall of the Ezeiza airport, where they look for tourists coming from Europe and the United States. From there they begin their pursuit." "The modus operandi was to spot people at the airport wearing high-end watches, follow them to their destination, and rob them. "They had a kind of placard, they would pretend to work to work for Uber," he added. Mr Gibbard was a director at Tingdene, a retirement homes firm, which turned over £20 million last year, according to Companies House. He is also listed as a director for a local vineyard, and a vegetation management company. His stepson, Mr Zone is understood to be a product manager at JP Morgan, and works in London. Yesterday, police raided 18 properties across Buenos Aires and arrested four men, including an Argentinian who is thought to be the gang leader. They are still hunting at least six more people involved in the attack, including the shooter. It is understood that the chauffeur which drove the family to the hotel is not under suspicion. "We were able to identify the perpetrators and we are working to arrest them," said Mr D'Alessandro, adding that one of the suspects arrived on a flight from the Caribbean only last Monday. "Saturday's wasn't the first crime they've committed," he said, linking the group to an attack on a Canadian businessman outside the Intercontinental hotel last month. On Thursday, before the attack on Mr Gibbard and his stepson, an Argentinian was arrested for trying to steal a watch in a similar manner in the Palermo area of Buenos Aires. He was linked to the same gang by Mr D'Alessandro. Today, there will be a meeting between police and security forces to try and move the investigation forward. "It is an atrocious act and the loss of a human life is irreversible. Our job is to stop these criminals and bring them to Justice," said Diego Santilli, Argentina's security Minister. On Sunday, the president, Alberto Fernandez branded the incident "atrocious" adding: "We must be severe, we cannot tolerate this." Last night the Foreign Office told The Telegraph that they keep all their travel advice "under constant review."
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| Trump is beating every Democratic candidate, poll shows — except for Joe Biden Posted: 16 Dec 2019 08:01 AM PST ![Trump is beating every Democratic candidate, poll shows — except for Joe Biden]( "Trump is beating every Democratic candidate, poll shows — except for Joe Biden") Former Vice President Joe Biden is the only Democratic presidential candidate to maintain a general election lead over President Trump, a new IDB/TIPP poll released Monday shows.Biden, who is also holding on to a relatively comfortable lead over the Democratic field in the poll, is shown beating Trump by 5 percentage points. While that's decent news for the former vice president, Trump actually cut into Biden's lead from IDB/TIPP's previous poll last month. Still, it's a better look than Biden's top two challengers at the moment, Sens. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Elizabeth Warren (D-Mass.), who fell behind the president after leading Trump by 7 and 8 percentage points in the November poll.> National General Election: > > Biden 50 (+5) > Trump 45 > > Trump 48 (+1) > Sanders 47 > > Trump 47 (+1) > Bloomberg 46 > > Trump 46 (+2) > Buttigieg 44 > > Trump 49 (+5) > Warren 44 > > IBD/TIPP (A/B) Poll> > — Political Polls (@PpollingNumbers) December 16, 2019South Bend, Indiana, Mayor Pete Buttigieg and billionaire and former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg also trailed Trump, but like Sanders and Warren remain within striking distance. The IDB/TIPP Poll was conducted over the phone between Dec. 5-14. The sample includes responses from 905 adults and the margin of error is 3.3 percentage points. Read more at Investor's Business Daily.More stories from theweek.com Trump's pathological obsession with being laughed at The most important day of the impeachment inquiry Jerry Falwell Jr.'s false gospel of memes
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| Former Japanese official sentenced for killing reclusive son Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:06 AM PST  A Tokyo court sentenced a former senior government official to six years in prison on Monday for fatally stabbing his socially reclusive son with a kitchen knife. The Tokyo District Court found Hideaki Kumazawa, 76, a former vice minister of agriculture, forestry and fisheries, guilty of repeatedly stabbing his son Eiichiro, then 44, in the neck and chest at his home in Tokyo in June. Kumazawa, who immediately called police and admitted to the killing, pleaded guilty to the crime during the trial.
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| Brian Kilmeade ‘Stunned’ by Fox News Poll Differing From What ‘Fox & Friends’ Pushes About Impeachment Posted: 16 Dec 2019 07:57 AM PST  Fox & Friends co-host Brian Kilmeade confessed Monday that the latest Fox News poll, showing more than half of Americans supporting impeachment, left him "stunned"—seeing as it doesn't support his preferred narrative that sentiments are "trending away" from impeachment.In a survey released on Sunday, Fox News found that 50 percent of voters want the president impeachment and removed from office, with an additional 4 percentage points of responders supporting impeachment but not removal. This represented a slight uptick from the network's poll in late October when 49 percent supported impeachment and removal.Discussing the upcoming House impeachment vote on Fox & Friends Monday morning, the overtly pro-Trump morning crew framed the process as completely partisan, prompting Kilmeade to note that a handful of House Democrats may vote against impeachment."There were 31 Democrats who voted for Republicans against Bill Clinton," Kilmeade declared. "Now you have zero Republicans and you are looking at how many Democrats [switching]? Everyone is choosing to bury that part of this story—that's how weak this impeachment case is!"After the hosts insisted that dozens of House Democrats are in peril of losing their seats over impeachment, Kilmeade then turned to the poll results, expressing shock that the numbers flew in the face of everything they've been peddling lately."The Fox News poll came out, and I was stunned by this, it says 50 percent of the country want the president impeached," he exclaimed. (The survey, in fact, says half of the public wants Trump impeachment and removed.)"I was stunned to see that that's the number," Kilmeade added, "because I thought that things were trending away, although the president's approval rating did tick up in the same poll, so it's almost like a split personality." The president's approval rating did indeed see a bump in the latest poll, rising from 42 percent in October to 45 percent.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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| India protests rage over 'anti-Muslim' law Posted: 16 Dec 2019 09:59 AM PST  Fresh protests rocked India on Monday as anger grew over new citizenship legislation slammed as anti-Muslim, after six people died in the northeast and as many as 200 were injured in New Delhi. Critics say it is part of Prime Minister Narendra Modi's Hindu nationalist agenda to marginalise the 200-million strong Islamic minority. Modi denies this, tweeting Monday that the new law "does not affect any citizen of India of any religion", while accusing "vested interest groups" of stoking the "deeply distressing" unrest.
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| Finland aims to repatriate Islamic State children from Syria 'as soon as possible' Posted: 16 Dec 2019 11:13 AM PST  Finland will try to repatriate children of Finnish mothers who traveled to Syria to join Islamic State "as soon as possible", Prime Minister Sanna Marin said on Monday. Finland is one of a number of European Union member states facing a decision over whether to bring home citizens with IS links who are trapped at the al-Hol camp displacement camp controlled by Kurds in northeastern Syria. More than 30 children born to 11 Finnish women are at al-Hol, according to Finnish media, and the fate of the mothers has caused divisions in Finland's five-party coalition government that took office last week.
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| 75 years after the Battle of the Bulge, members of the Army's 101st Airborne share their personal ties to that brutal fight Posted: 16 Dec 2019 06:07 AM PST  Seventy-five years ago, the Battle of the Bulge began with a massive Germans advance into Belgium, sending US troops reeling.
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| Russian state TV airs Giuliani interview after he spreads Ukraine conspiracy theories Posted: 16 Dec 2019 02:15 PM PST  Russian state-run TV has aired Rudy Giuliani's interview with OAN, a pro-Trump news channel, in which he promoted widely debunked conspiracy theories to undermine the impeachment inquiry into the president.
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| Congress to Repeal Three Health Industry Taxes Intended to Fund Obamacare Posted: 16 Dec 2019 10:07 AM PST  Congress is preparing to repeal three major health industry taxes meant to fund the Affordable Care Act in the year-end spending bill, dealing a significant blow to Obamacare's funding mechanisms.While congressional leaders are still hammering out the details of the spending bill, lawmakers have reportedly agreed to scrap the 40 percent Cadillac tax on high end employer plans, the 2.3 percent medical device tax, and an additional health insurance tax.The repeal of the taxes, which were mandated by the Obama administration's Affordable Care Act, constitutes a win for the health insurance industry and a severe funding problem for Obamacare. The Cadillac tax repeal is expected to cost nearly $200 billion over 10 years, while the repeals of the other two taxes are projected to cost between $15 billion and $25 billion each over the same period.Congress prevented the Cadillac tax, which drew strong opposition from employers and unions with expensive health benefits plans, from taking effect until 2022, and the House voted over the summer to abandon it permanently. The medical device and health insurance taxes have been enforced on and off since the Affordable Care Act was passed.The text of the $1.4 trillion spending bill is expected to be released Monday, and the package is expected to pass both the House and Senate this week.Some Senate Democrats, including Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer and Senator Pat Leahy have opposed the Cadillac tax since the Obama years, "This tax unfortunately would target far too many health plans and place far too great a burden on working families," Leahy said in 2015. "We must find a way to contain the cost of health care without creating geographic disparities and limiting the benefits available in health plans."
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| Could This Be The End Of Iran? Posted: 14 Dec 2019 09:05 PM PST  Iran is facing serious internal and external problems.
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| 'This Thing Will Come to the Senate and It Will Die Quickly.' GOP Leaders Moving to Reject House Democrats' Impeachment Case Posted: 15 Dec 2019 02:06 PM PST  GOP leaders are already moving to reject House Democrats' impeachment case
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| Mississippi man accused of quadruple homicide could walk away from jail after six trials Posted: 16 Dec 2019 07:58 AM PST  Curtis Flowers, who has been tried a record six times for the same crime, will appear in court for a bond hearing Monday in Mississippi.
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| Police: Elected official's wife dumped drink on reporter Posted: 16 Dec 2019 08:50 AM PST  The wife of a local elected official in Georgia faces criminal charges after she reportedly dumped a drink on a reporter's head at a county meeting. Abbey Winters, the wife of Chattooga County Commissioner Jason Winters, intentionally poured a drink over the head of AllOnGeorgia reporter Casie Bryant just before a county budget meeting was to start around 11 a.m. Friday, witnesses told police. Winters, 35, "said something to the effect of the Victim 'deserved it,'" according to the incident report from the Summerville Police Department.
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| Turkey sends armed drone to N.Cyprus amid gas dispute Posted: 15 Dec 2019 04:57 PM PST  A Turkish military drone was delivered to northern Cyprus on Monday amid growing tensions over Turkey's deal with Libya that extended its claims to the gas-rich eastern Mediterranean. The Bayraktar TB2 drone landed at Gecitkale Airport in Famagusta around 0700 GMT, an AFP correspondent said, after the breakaway northern Cyprus government approved the use of the airport for unmanned aerial vehicles. It followed a deal signed last month between Libya and Turkey that could prove crucial in the scramble for recently discovered gas reserves in the eastern Mediterranean.
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| Philippine court dismisses case seeking $3.9 billion of Marcos wealth Posted: 16 Dec 2019 02:14 AM PST  A Philippine court threw out a high-profile, 32-year-old forfeiture case on Monday involving the family of late dictator Ferdinand Marcos, citing insufficient evidence to order the return of $3.9 billion of allegedly ill-gotten wealth. The country's anti-graft court decided in favor of the Marcoses for the fourth time since August, with judges ruling that photocopied documents could not be used as evidence, so the case would not proceed. It has been referred to widely as the "mother" of cases in a three-decade effort by a special presidential panel to recover an estimated $10 billion allegedly siphoned off by Marcos and a family that had lived lavishly during his 20 years in power, 14 of which were ruled under martial law.
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| Boeing is reportedly on the brink of stopping 737 Max production while it waits for the troubled plane to return to the sky Posted: 16 Dec 2019 04:31 AM PST  The decision could be announced by Boeing as soon as Monday, according to The Wall Street Journal, which cited sources familiar with the matter.
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| Probability of No-Deal Brexit Has Decreased, Mark Carney Says Posted: 16 Dec 2019 10:20 AM PST ![Probability of No-Deal Brexit Has Decreased, Mark Carney Says]( "Probability of No-Deal Brexit Has Decreased, Mark Carney Says") (Bloomberg) -- Boris Johnson's victory in last week's general election means the possibility of the U.K. crashing out of the European Union has subsided, according to Bank of England Governor Mark Carney."The worst-case scenario is effectively a no deal, disorderly Brexit. The probability of that scenario has gone down because of the election result and the intention of the new government," Carney said, speaking in a press conference after the publication of the central bank's Financial Stability Report. "The scenario itself and the risks that we protect the system against has not itself changed, it's just become less likely."Carney emphasized that the financial system is prepared for such an outcome, with the U.K.'s seven largest lenders all passing the bank's latest stress test, showing they're strong enough to continue lending even in a global downturn or in the event of Britain leaving the EU without a trade agreement.Johnson has pledged to take the U.K. out of the bloc on Jan. 31, and there will then be just 11 months to conclude a new trade deal. That raises the prospect of a cliff-edge at the end of 2020, according to trade experts."What people would expect us to do is to continue to ensure that the system is ready, so that the financial system is not forming a constraint to whatever negotiations are under way or discussions are under way, but is part of the buffer for whatever happens," Carney said.Apart from Brexit, more medium-term risks to financial stability include corporate and household indebtedness, Carney said.Carney said officials will provide a "high-level update" on the economy on Thursday, when policy makers are due to announce their latest interest-rate decision and publish their meeting minutes.(Updates with comments from Carney in final two paragraphs.)To contact the reporter on this story: Jill Ward in London at jward98@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Fergal O'Brien at fobrien@bloomberg.net, Andrew AtkinsonFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| 5 Italian men sentenced to jail for rape of tourist in popular holiday resort Posted: 15 Dec 2019 07:55 AM PST  Five Italian men have been jailed for the gang rape of a British tourist in the popular resort of Meta di Sorrento, south of Naples.
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| Was America's M16 Rifle a Bad Weapon to Fight North Vietnam? Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:40 AM PST  A history lesson.
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| The lies have it: Republicans abandon truth in Trump impeachment defence Posted: 14 Dec 2019 10:00 PM PST  As the GOP counter-offensive runs on fake news and conspiracy theories, critics say truth itself is under attack"Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four," George Orwell wrote in the novel Nineteen Eighty-Four. "If that is granted, all else follows."The pro-Donald Trump industrial complex has not yet denied basic arithmetic. But as impeachment looms, his allies appear to be waging an increasingly frantic political and media counter-offensive that puts truth itself in the dock.A bewildering array of fake news, warped facts and conspiracy theories have been propagated in the past week by conservative media, Republican politicians, White House officials and the president in his own defence. It is, commentators say, a concerted disinformation war, intended to crowd out damaging revelations as the House of Representatives prepares its ultimate sanction."The more facts come out, the more desperate they get," said Kurt Bardella, a former spokesman and senior adviser on the House oversight committee. "They know in a debate centred on facts, truth and reality, they lose. Their only mechanism to survive is to muddy the waters, distort, distract and hope if they repeat lies often enough, they become real."Trump this week became the only fourth US president to face articles of impeachment. The two against him charge him with abuse of power by pressuring Ukraine to announce investigations that would boost his 2020 re-election campaign, and obstruction of Congress by ordering witnesses to defy subpoenas.> These guys are in an abusive relationship with Trump … They behave the way you see victims of domestic violence behave> > Rick WilsonAt public hearings and in countless media interviews, Republicans sought to argue that Trump was, in fact, justified in seeking the two investigations: one into whether Ukraine meddled in the 2016 the presidential election, the other into a Ukrainian gas company with ties to Hunter Biden, the son of potential 2020 rival Joe Biden.Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, even flew to Ukraine with the ardently pro-Trump One America News Network (OANN) to interview officials for a "docu-series". The Wall Street Journal reported that when Giuliani got back to New York last week, the president called him on the runway and demanded: "What did you get?"The former New York mayor reportedly replied: "More than you can imagine."Giuliani visited Trump at the White House on Friday.The entire US intelligence community has found no evidence to support the claim of Ukrainian interference in 2016. Fiona Hill, formerly top Russia expert at the White House, has warned that to spread "the fictional narrative" is to spread Russian propaganda and do the bidding of Vladimir Putin. Christopher Wray, the director of the FBI, said this week there was "no indication" that Ukraine interfered.Yet several Republican senators continue to peddle this counter-narrative. Last Sunday Ted Cruz, runner-up to Trump in the 2016 primary, told NBC's Meet the Press: "Ukraine blatantly interfered in our election."Host Chuck Todd's eyebrows shot up with surprise."Senator, this sort of strikes me as odd," he said, noting how Trump viciously went after Cruz during the primary campaign, questioning his birthplace and religion and insulting his wife.But Rick Wilson, a Republican strategist and author of Everything Trump Touches Dies, said: "I'm not surprised at Ted Cruz being sycophantic to Trump. Trump broke Ted Cruz a long time ago. The Republicans have the worst political Stockholm syndrome we've ever seen."These guys are all in an abusive relationship with Trump. I don't mean that in a flippant way. They behave the way you see victims of domestic violence behave. But they've got culpability in this thing: they're not just victims, they're enablers."Wilson noted there is no punishment for Trump's allies."There are no consequences for being untruthful. It's become a feature, not a bug. The audience expects them to lie. There's a certain liberty in not having a conscience and being able to lie about anything and watch Trump blow stuff up. Trump revels in paying the joker and they revel in him playing that role."Republicans have also worked hard to justify Trump's demand for an investigation into Biden. All week they continued to push for Hunter to appear as a witness, even though there is no evidence of wrongdoing on his part. On Thursday, Matt Gaetz of Florida presented an amendment to the impeachment articles that would replace a reference to investigations into Joe Biden with "the true topic of the investigation, Burisma and Hunter Biden".> If Fox News did not exist, the Republican embrace of wild conspiracy theories would not be tenable or possible> > Kurt BardellaAnother Republican defence hinges on political tribalism. Full of righteous indignation, they claim Democrats had been plotting to impeach Trump all along and so the inquiry is a "sham". Doug Collins, the top Republican on the House judiciary committee, said Democrats "can't get over the fact Donald Trump is president of the United States and they don't have a candidate that they think can beat him". 'It is incredible'The impeachment inquiry is not the only glimpse into Trump and his allies' parallel universe. This week saw the release of a justice department inspector general report that debunked the conspiracy theory that the investigation into Trump's 2016 campaign and its ties to Russia originated with political bias. The report quoted the FBI deputy general counsel as saying: "The FBI would have been derelict in our responsibility had we not opened the case."Trump's long-held contention that the Russia investigation was a hoax and witch-hunt was demolished before his eyes. Yet his first response from the White House came from a parallel universe in which up is down and two plus two equals five."The IG report just came out, and I was just briefed on it, and it's a disgrace what's happened with respect to the things that were done to our country," he told reporters."It should never again happen to another president. It is incredible. Far worse than I would have ever thought possible. And it's an embarrassment to our country. It's dishonest. It's everything that a lot of people thought it would be, except far worse."Trump turned to Pam Bondi, a special adviser on impeachment and former Florida attorney general to whom he once donated. Like Cruz, she did not disappoint."You know, so many of us who are career law enforcement today are outraged," she said. "And I think the American people really should be terrified that this could happen to you when we're supposed to live in a society of integrity and honesty."Sometimes, Trump just makes stuff up. At a campaign rally in Hershey, Pennsylvania, he made the baseless allegation that the former FBI agent Peter Strzok needed a restraining order against ex-colleague Lisa Page when their affair ended. The couple's anti-Trump text messages are a favourite Republican talking point."This poor guy, did I hear he needed a restraining order after this whole thing, to keep him away from Lisa?" Trump asked the crowd. "I don't know if it's true, the fake news will never report it, but it could be true."Page tweeted: "This is a lie. Nothing like this ever happened. I wish we had a president who knew how to act like one. SAD!" 'The attorney general is a Fox News bot'The president has found another useful enabler in Bill Barr, the attorney general, who joined him in dismissing most of the inspector general's findings and promising that his handpicked prosecutor, John Durham, will have the final word.Jeffrey Toobin, a lawyer and legal analyst, told CNN: "The attorney general of the United States is a Fox News bot. And it's an outrage. [Barr] keeps demanding investigation after investigation until he gets the results that he wants? That's something that happens in the Soviet Union, not in the United States."Trump has far more tools at his disposal than Richard Nixon or Bill Clinton did when facing impeachment in the 1970s and 90s. No matter how outlandish, his assertions are amplified and seldom questioned by loyal hosts on Rupert Murdoch's Fox News network.Bardella said: "If Fox News did not exist, the Republican embrace of wild conspiracy theories would not be tenable or possible. They are the editorial centre of the Republican party now."This is further augmented by social media. Under the headline "Fact-based impeachment can't penetrate the pro-Trump Web", the Washington Post highlighted how Friday's impeachment hearing was watched by a private Facebook group with more than 75,000 members under the banner "The Trump deplorables".It reported: "The defense mounted by Trump's allies made perfect sense to those following live on social media, in groups sealed off from general scrutiny, where facts are established by volume, and confirmation comes from likes. The effect of social media is to jack up the tenor of everything."This calibrated, multi-pronged Republican assault has left the nation in what some call a state of "truth decay" as all sense of shared reality breaks down. The tactics offer a chilling preview of how the president intends to fight next year's election.Bardella said: "We have one chance to return to a certain amount of normality and respect. Much more than Donald Trump is on the ballot, fact and truth and our democratic way of life are on the ballot."
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| Flynn set for Jan. 28 sentencing after judge rejects claims ex-Trump aide was tricked Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:27 PM PST  The former national security adviser pleaded guilty to a felony false statement charge, but has since claimed that he was unfairly targeted.
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| Supreme Court Lets Ruling Stand Forbidding Prosecution of Homeless for Sleeping in Public Spaces Posted: 16 Dec 2019 10:39 AM PST  The Supreme Court on Monday chose not to hear the city of Boise's defense of its policy of prosecuting homeless people who sleep in a public space, letting a lower court ruling stand that terms the city's policy "cruel and unusual punishment."Boise, the capital of Idaho, fined or jailed homeless people for sleeping in public, contending the policy was needed to prevent unsanitary and unsafe conditions from developing in the city. Six current and former homeless residents of the city, who were fined between $25 to $75 and served one to two days in jail, sued the city government in federal court in 2009.The 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, based in San Francisco, California, ruled in 2018 that Boise's policy violated the 8th amendment, which forbids cruel and unusual punishment. The ruling prevents cities from punishing homeless people for sleeping in public if there are not enough beds available at local shelters to house them."As long as there is no option of sleeping indoors, the government cannot criminalize indigent, homeless people for sleeping outdoors, on public property, on the false premise they had a choice in the matter," the court said in its ruling. The city of Boise maintained that it did not issue citations to people when shelters were full, and added that two of the city's shelters had a policy to never turn away a person in need of a bed.The state of California is currently in the midst of its own homelessness crisis, with 60,000 homeless in Los Angeles County and 28,000 in San Francisco.
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| 9 die in wintry crashes in several Midwestern states Posted: 16 Dec 2019 06:58 AM PST  At least nine people have died in weather-related crashes in several Midwestern states amid a storm that dumped nearly a foot of snow in places, forced schools to close and snarled traffic, authorities said. The wintry weather was part of a storm system that hit parts of the Midwest and was expected to extend into the Northeast through Tuesday, the National Weather Service said. In Missouri, the storm dumped 3 to 9 inches (7.6 to 22.9 centimeters) of snow across of the state.
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| Five things you should know about guns lost by G4S, the largest security company in the world Posted: 16 Dec 2019 09:04 AM PST  Guns that were supposed to be secured by G4S have been bought by children, stolen by criminals and used in murders, rapes and robberies across the U.S.
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| 11 striking photos from 2019 show the US military in action around the world Posted: 16 Dec 2019 02:03 PM PST  Check out the year's best military images that show US troops jumping from planes, flying jets in close formation, fighting an intense blaze and more.
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| Zimbabwe Vice President’s Wife Charged With Attempted Murder Posted: 16 Dec 2019 03:19 AM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Sign up to our Next Africa newsletter and follow Bloomberg Africa on TwitterThe wife of Zimbabwean Vice President Constantino Chiwenga, who was arrested during the weekend over alleged fraud and money laundering, now faces an additional charge of attempted murder.Prosecutors accused Marry Mubaiwa of deliberately denying the vice president medical attention at the height of his illness and unlawfully interfering with medical procedures when he finally got to a hospital."On 23 June 2019, the accused kept on denying the complainant access to medical treatment and the security team had to force their way to take the complainant to Netcare Hospital," according to charges read out by Prosecutor Michael Reza in the capital, Harare.The Magistrate Court ordered Mubaiwa detained until Dec. 30 She was not required to take a plea during Monday's session.Chiwenga, a possible challenger to President Emmerson Mnangagwa, returned to Harare in November after spending months in South Africa, China and India seeking treatment for an undisclosed illness. The retired general orchestrated the army intervention that toppled former President Robert Mugabe and brought Mnangagwa to power.To contact the reporter on this story: Desmond Kumbuka in Harare at dkumbuka@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Gordon Bell at gbell16@bloomberg.net, Helen Nyambura, Dulue MbachuFor more articles like this, please visit us at bloomberg.com©2019 Bloomberg L.P.
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| U.S. plans to buy 22 aging fighter jets from Switzerland Posted: 16 Dec 2019 08:13 AM PST  The U.S. is expected to buy 22 aging fighter jets from Switzerland, a country that's struggling to modernize its own air force. U.S. Navy representatives and the Swiss defense procurement agency discussed the deal in July, an agency spokesman said on Sunday. The contract is expected to be signed once U.S. lawmakers approve the fiscal 2020 defense budget, he said.
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| Cuba says it is prepared if U.S. chooses to sever diplomatic ties Posted: 16 Dec 2019 12:19 PM PST  Cuba's Communist government is prepared if the administration of U.S. President Donald Trump decides to sever diplomatic relations although it hopes that does not come to pass, a top Cuban diplomat said on Monday. Relations were re-established five years ago this week under former Democratic President Barack Obama following half a century of hostility, a stance that earned the United States lots of goodwill from Latin America, which has been clamoring for such a detente for years.
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| Why South Korea's Marines Are Such an Excellent Fighting Force Posted: 16 Dec 2019 05:05 AM PST  North Korea should be wary.
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| Florida truck driver arrested in 1980 Colorado killing Posted: 16 Dec 2019 07:37 AM PST  A Florida truck driver has been arrested and charged in the killing of a college student working as an intern for a Denver radio station nearly 40 years ago, a break in the cold case that authorities on Monday credited to the analysis of DNA information shared on genealogy websites combined with old fashioned police work. James Curtis Clanton of Lake Butler, Florida, was arrested in the 1980 slaying and sexual assault of Helene Pruszynski, 21, after being surveilled by investigators for a week and extradited to Colorado over the weekend, Douglas County Tony Spurlock said. Pruszynski was from Massachusetts and had only been working as an intern at KHOW-AM for two weeks when she was killed on Jan. 16, 1980, Spurlock said.
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| Hong Kong’s freshman councilors get a crash course: City Gov 101 Posted: 16 Dec 2019 07:36 AM PST  Hong Kong's pro-democracy camp won big in district elections. Now, incoming councilors have to translate their dreams into day-to-day decisions.
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| Starbucks apologizes for third 'anti police' incident in six months, this time in California Posted: 15 Dec 2019 05:20 PM PST  Starbucks apologized for employees' refusal to serve deputies in Riverside, California, the company's third such incident with police in six months.
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| The US military wants to deliver drinking water to troops in the desert by sucking it out of the air Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:32 PM PST  DARPA is trying to figure out how to extract water from the ambient air as a way to provide drinking water to troops on the move in really dry areas.
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| Emerging Markets Get Fresh Boost of Hope Over Trade Deal Posted: 15 Dec 2019 09:56 PM PST  (Bloomberg) -- Emerging-market stocks jumped to an almost eight-month high last week and currencies rose to the strongest since July as the U.S. and China finally agreed on a phase-one trade deal. Mixed signals along the week whipsawed markets, but ultimately every developing-nation currency except the Turkish lira advanced, also helped by commitments in the developed world to keep interest rates low.The following is a roundup of news from emerging markets and highlights for the week ending Dec. 15.Read here our emerging-market weekly preview, and listen here to our weekly podcastHighlights:The U.S. and China said they agreed to the details of the first phase of a broader trade agreement in a move that will see the U.S. reduce tariffs, at least temporarily calming fears of an escalating trade war involving the world's two largest economiesThe deal hinges on China increasing purchases of farm goods such as soybeans and pork, and making new commitments on intellectual property and currencyIn return, the U.S. agreed to reduce some existing tariffs, halving 15% duties on $120 billion of imports but maintaining a 25% levy on some $250 billion of Chinese goods. The U.S. will also delay new import taxes set to take effect on Sunday on $160 billion of products such as smartphones and toysChina will suspend additional tariffs on certain imports from the U.S., according to the Ministry of FinanceThe Federal Reserve left interest rates unchanged and signaled it would stay on hold through 2020. Chairman Jerome Powell repeatedly stressed his belief that the labor market can improve further despite unemployment being at a half-century lowThe House Judiciary Committee plowed ahead with articles of impeachment against President Donald Trump, despite objections and amendments from the panel's Republican membersChina announced that it would target economic growth next year within a "reasonable range," maintain its proactive fiscal policy and keep prudent monetary policy, according to a summary of decisions from the main annual economic planning meetingThe Asian nation's ambassador threatened Germany with retaliation if it excludes Huawei Technologies Co. as a supplier of 5G wireless equipment, citing the millions of vehicles German carmakers sell in ChinaPrime Minister Boris Johnson won a decisive election and put the U.K. on track to leave the European Union next month, which reduced the uncertainty over BrexitThe Turkish central bank delivered another rate cut that exceeded forecasts, emboldened by the lira's stability and egged on by President Recep Tayyip Erdogan's calls for more aggressive easingBrazil cut its benchmark rate by half a percentage point to a record low and left the door open for additional easingS&P Global Ratings revised Brazil's outlook to positive from stable, putting the Latin American country a step closer to the first upgrade since 2011Buoyed by slower inflation and progress toward receiving billions of dollars in foreign aid, Ukraine cut borrowing costs by twice as much as analysts predictedSaudi Aramco shares climbed for a second day on Thursday, but the oil giant failed to hold on to the $2 trillion valuation that Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman had long targetedThe stock jumped the daily 10% limit on the first day of trading in Riyadh on WednesdayArgentina's new economy minister, Martin Guzman, outlined broad themes about policy proposals to revive the economy, but didn't delve into specifics that Argentines and investors have waited months to hearThe country will open talks with bondholders to delay the nation's debt payments, Guzman said in his first public comments as minister, adding that he's already negotiating with the International Monetary Fund for a new program amid a recessionAsia:The Asian Development Bank cut its economic growth forecasts for China and India to below 6%, dimming prospects across the continentChina's consumer inflation accelerated to a seven-year high in November while producer prices extended their run of declines, complicating the central bank's efforts to support the economyBonds from at least 57 Chinese companies totaling $43.4 billion face repayment pressure, according to company and ratings firm statements compiled by BloombergThe country plans to maintain stability in the foreign exchange market in 2020 and will take steps to prevent financial risks in the sector, the State Administration of Foreign Exchange saidMore than 5,600 retail jobs could be lost and thousands of stores shut down over the next six months, as pro-democracy protests in Hong Kong continue to disrupt sales during the crucial festive periodA U.S. federal commission has called for sanctions against India's home minister and other top leaders if the country passes a controversial bill that will prevent Muslim migrants from neighboring countries from receiving citizenshipIndia's parliament approved the controversial bill after hours of heated debate among lawmakers and protests in some parts of the countryIndia may have its debt rating downgraded in the event of a major economic slowdown, S&P saidThe country is considering raising the investment limit of foreigners in government bonds to at least 10% of the outstanding stock from 6% currently, the Business Standard reports, citing unnamed sourcesInflation galloped to its highest level in more than three years, giving monetary policy makers reason to keep rates on hold despite flagging economic growthSouth Korea's parliament approved a 512.3 trillion won ($437 billion) budget for 2020 that aims to counter economic headwinds and support areas that can become new growth driversThe jobless rate ticked higher for a third month, an unexpected outcome that illustrates the challenge of boosting hiring in an economy struggling with slumping exports and weak investmentThe total balance of South Korean government bonds climbed to 695.7 trillion won at end of October from 691.5 trillion won the previous monthNorth Korea took its most personal swipe at Trump in more than two years, saying the U.S. leader's recent comments made him sound like a "heedless and erratic old man"Indonesia's cabinet may amend a legally imposed cap on the budget deficit, which would allow the government to spend and borrow more to stimulate growth in Southeast Asia's biggest economy. Fiscal flexibility may be a good thing for Indonesia, Fitch Ratings saidThe nation sees a wider deficit as the right response amid a slowdown, according to Finance Minister Sri Mulyani IndrawatiIndonesia will ramp up its fiscal stimulus in the first quarter of next year to support growth amid a global slowdown, the economy minister saidThe government said the European Union's tariffs on the Asian nation's biodiesel shipments are "unacceptable" and all options to counter the policy are on the table, including retaliatory actionsBank Indonesia sees current-account deficit at 2.7%-2.8% of gross domestic product in 2019The central bank to hold more daily local NDF auctions from Jan. 2Thailand's economy is expected to grow more than 3% next year and the government stands ready to issue more stimulus if necessary, Finance Minister Uttama Savanayana saidThe medium-term fiscal position remains strong and there's scope for further stimulus steps, Deputy Prime Minister Somkid Jatusripitak saidS&P raised its ratings outlook on Thailand to positive from stable, citing political stability and expectations that growth will recover modestlyThe World Bank lowered Malaysia's 2020 economic growth forecast to 4.5%, largely due to weaker-than-anticipated investment and export growth in the third quarter of this yearThe Philippine central bank kept its key interest rate unchanged for a second straight meeting at 4%. Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas maintained forecasts for average inflation until 2021 as it kept the policy rate at 4%, Assistant Governor Iluminada Sicat saidBangko Sentral ng Pilipinas is considering to cut the key rate by 50 basis points in 2020, Governor Benjamin Diokno saidThe Philippines will no longer target economic growth as high as 8% by the time President Rodrigo Duterte steps down in 2022, according to his economic managersThe country's trade deficit for October came in at $3.25 billion, less than estimate $3.6 billion, but wider than a revised $3 billion a month earlierTaiwan's exports rose the most in more than a year as shipments to China recovered. Exports increased 3.3% in November from a year earlier, the fastest pace since October last year, shortly after the U.S. imposed tariffs on $200 billion of Chinese productsThe majority of foreign capital inflows recently have gone to equities, with smaller amounts in bonds and in cash, Taiwan central bank deputy governor Yen Tzung-ta saidEMEA:Turkey calls on U.S. not to do anything that could harm their bilateral ties, warning its NATO ally against sanctioning Turkey or recognizing mass killings of Armenians during dying years of Ottoman Empire a century ago as "genocide"The authorities have extended their campaign against perceived political enemies into the $750 billion financial industryTurkey's parliament speaker Mustafa Sentop submits security and military cooperation deal with Libya to parliament for approval after the maritime boundary delimitation agreement has been activated in the past week, Hurriyet newspaper reportedSaudi Arabia is reviewing its plan for life after oil with Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman said to be unsatisfied with progress and the government seeking to control spendingThe kingdom may tap international debt markets as early as next month as it seeks funding to help bridge its widening budget deficitSerbia was upgraded one level to BB+ by S&P Global RatingsFor many bond investors, it's a matter of when, not if, Lebanon restructures its $87 billion of debt as it reels under a deepening financial crisis. Working out what the trigger would be or the extent of the fallout is another matter entirelyThe nation's president ordered a week-long postponement in talks to pick a new premier, just one day before lawmakers were set to name a businessman to head the next cabinetMoody's Investors Service said emergency measures by the central bank to address foreign-currency shortages forced three of the country's top lenders into a "deposit default"The crisis with Qatar "continues," a top United Arab Emirates official said after high-level Qatari participation at a Riyadh summit led to speculation that the regional rift could come to an endEgypt's inflation accelerated for the first time in five months, reaching 3.6% in November as the effect of last year's surge in prices faded but offering the central bank little reason to reverse a monetary easing cycleSouth African inflation slowed in November, getting closer to a nine-year low, as calls increase for the central bank to help support an economy at risk of a recessionManufacturing production contracted for the fifth consecutive month in October, the longest such streak since the global financial crisisEskom Holdings SOC Ltd., South Africa's state-owned power utility seen by Goldman Sachs Group Inc. as the biggest threat to the country's economy, implemented week-long rolling blackoutsWhile the power cuts are implemented to prevent a collapse of the electricity grid, they have a debilitating effect on the economy by curtailing mining activity and factory output and causing crippling traffic delaysPortfolio investment inflows rose to the highest level in more than a year in the third quarter after the country's biggest Eurobond sale yetBank of Russia Governor Elvira Nabiullina hinted she may take a breather after delivering five consecutive interest rate cuts, potentially putting the brakes on a rally in Russian assets this yearUganda will spend as much as a fifth of government revenue on interest payments in this financial year and the IMF warned this could reduce expenditure on human capital and infrastructure projectsThe central bank held its benchmark rate at 9%, saying subdued inflation provides room to shield the economy from global headwinds and increasing domestic needs for private-sector financingGhana's inflation rate rose to the highest level in four months in November as the cedi continued to weakenPoland's government plans to place new restrictions on judges, ignoring concerns by the European Union and its own Supreme Court that it's eroding the rule of lawRomania's credit outlook was cut by S&P, which voiced skepticism at the new government's efforts to tame a budget deficit that's ballooning beyond EU limitsCzech inflation surprisingly accelerated to the fastest pace in seven years, which may rekindle the debate over rate increases when the central bank meets next weekLatin America:Brazil's economic activity expanded at a modest pace for a third consecutive month in October, as policy makers signal more monetary easing may be on tap amid below-target inflationRetail sales rose for a sixth consecutive month in OctoberLower house of Congress approved the base text of a bill that facilitates the privatization of water and sewage treatment. The government sees the approval of the bill as crucial to attracting foreign investmentArgentina is willing but unable to pay its debt under current conditions and needs the economy to grow again before meeting its obligations, President Alberto Fernandez said in his first speech after being sworn inThe IMF is waiting for the details of the new Argentine government's economic plans to review its $56 billion credit line, its chief spokesman saidArgentina, the world's biggest seller of processed soybean meal and oil, raised export taxes on Saturday as the government seeks to fund spending under new presidentMexico's Senate passed changes to a new NAFTA replacement free-trade deal with the U.S. and CanadaInflation slowed to slightly below the central bank's target for the first time since 2016, bolstering economists' expectations that policy makers will keep cutting interest rates this monthMexico objected to the congressional proposal to create as many as five U.S. labor attaches to monitor implementation of the free trade deal with the U.S. and CanadaChile's lower house of Congress rejected a proposal to impeach President Sebastian Pinera over his handling of nearly two months of unrest that has left more than 20 dead and caused a slump in economic activityPeru's central bank kept borrowing costs unchanged at the lowest level since 2010 as policy makers gauge the need for additional stimulus amid delays to public works spending and slowing global growthVenezuela President Nicolas Maduro said a court ordered the capture of members of an opposition group, including National Assembly leader Juan Guaido, for their role in an alleged conspiracy that Maduro claimed had been foiled\--With assistance from Colleen Goko, Selcuk Gokoluk and Paul Wallace.To contact Bloomberg News staff for this story: Yumi Teso in Bangkok at yteso1@bloomberg.net;Netty Ismail in Dubai at nismail3@bloomberg.net;Aline Oyamada in Sao Paulo at aoyamada3@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story: Tomoko Yamazaki at tyamazaki@bloomberg.net, Karl Lester M. 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| Thousands of Gambians demand President Barrow step down Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:15 PM PST  Thousands of protesters took to the streets in Gambia's capital Banjul on Monday demanding that President Adama Barrow respect his pledge to quit after three years in office. The president, a relative unknown at the time, defeated former autocrat Yahya Jammeh in elections in the tiny West African state in 2016. According to the founding charter of Barrow's ruling coalition, the president was meant to lead a provisional government for three years and then call elections, and not stand.
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| The perplexing politics of Priyanka Chopra, who has been called 'hypocritical' for her patriotic statements Posted: 15 Dec 2019 08:37 AM PST  The actress has raised eyebrows with her politics, backing her native India at particularly tense moments with countries like Pakistan.
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| Pentagon chief urges Iraq to stop attacks on bases housing U.S. forces Posted: 16 Dec 2019 03:14 AM PST  U.S. Secretary of Defense Mark Esper on Monday urged Iraqi Prime Minister Adel Abdul Mahdi to take steps to prevent bases housing U.S. troops from being shelled, a statement from the premier's office said. Esper's call came after a senior U.S. military official warned last week that attacks by Iranian-backed groups on bases hosting U.S. forces in Iraq were pushing all sides closer to an uncontrollable escalation.
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| The Warship-Busting B-25G Bomber Had a Killer Cannon from a Sherman Tank In Its Nose Posted: 16 Dec 2019 02:43 AM PST  The canon-armed bomber?
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| Sri Lanka arrests Swiss Embassy worker who claimed abduction Posted: 16 Dec 2019 06:56 AM PST  Sri Lankan police on Monday arrested a Swiss Embassy employee who has said she was abducted, held for hours, sexually assualted and threatened by captors who demanded that she disclose embassy-related information. Gania Banister Francis, a local embassy employee, made statements that could justify a criminal charge of disaffection toward the government and also fabricated evidence in her abduction claim, Sri Lanka's Attorney General's Department told police. The Swiss foreign ministry has called the alleged Nov. 25 abduction of Francis a "very serious and unacceptable attack" and summoned Sri Lanka's ambassador to demand an investigation.
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| Harvey Weinstein Accusers Slam Bizarre Hospital Interview Posted: 16 Dec 2019 01:53 AM PST  Disgraced movie mogul Harvey Weinstein played the victim in a wide ranging interview with the New York Post's Page Six published Sunday. The man whose alleged bad behavior launched the global metoo movement told the paper that despite the fact that more than 80 women have come forward with horrific allegations of sexual harassment and assault, he actually deserves "a pat on the back" for all he has done for womankind.Celebrity Feminist Lawyer Lisa Bloom's Critics Distrust Her Post-Weinstein RehabWeinstein spoke to Page Six from the recovery ward of the New York-Presbyterian/Weill Cornell Medical Center where he recently underwent spinal surgery. He was injured in an August car accident near his home during which he crashed his jeep into a tree to avoid hitting a deer. He would not address any allegations directly but instead said he agreed to the interview to prove his injures were not exaggerated. "I feel like the forgotten man,'' the 67-year-old told the paper. "I made more movies directed by women and about women than any filmmaker, and I'm talking about 30 years ago. I'm not talking about now when it's vogue. I did it first! I pioneered it!" Weinstein, who will be in court next month to fight five counts of predatory sexual assault, criminal sex act, and rape that could land him a life sentence, says he fears his legacy will disappear over the widespread allegations against him. "It all got eviscerated because of what happened,'' Weinstein told the paper. "My work has been forgotten.''After the interview was published, 23 women who have publicly accused Weinstein of sexual misconduct issued a joint statement, accusing the alleged predator of "trying to gaslight society again." "He says in a new interview he doesn't want to be forgotten," the women's statement said. "Well, he won't be. He will be remembered as a sexual predator and an unrepentant abuser who took everything and deserves nothing."Angered by the fact that the accused serial abuser was given a platform to defend himself, the group of accusers say they will not allow him to dictate the narrative about his behavior."He will be remembered by the collective will of countless women who stood up and said enough," the statement reads. "We refuse to let this predator rewrite his legacy of abuse."Weinstein will appear in bail court Wednesday to learn whether his $1 million bail will be raised after he allegedly violated the terms of his release by failing to maintain his electronic ankle bracelet's monitoring system. 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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| Starbucks Apologizes after Police Deputies Denied Service in California Store Posted: 16 Dec 2019 12:52 PM PST  Starbucks has apologized for an incident at one of its California locations in which two police officers were allegedly refused service following allegations that the coffee chain maintained an "anti-police" culture.The two Riverside County sheriff's deputies allegedly waited an unreasonable amount of time to be served and were "laughed at" by employees before leaving and going elsewhere for coffee, Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco said."They tried to get served, they asked if anyone was going to help them, they were laughed at, they were completely ignored — obviously ignored to where other patrons knew they were being ignored," Bianco said in a Facebook video."There is simply no excuse for how two Riverside deputies were ignored for nearly 5 minutes at our store on Thursday evening," Starbucks said in a statement. "We are deeply sorry and reached out to apologize directly to them. We take full responsibility for any intentional or unintentional disrespect shown to law enforcement on whom we depend every day to keep our stores and communities safe.""No customer, in or out of uniform, should ever have that experience at a Starbucks," the coffee franchise added.The sheriff expressed skepticism about the sincerity of the company's apology, saying Starbucks is "doing corporate damage control" and "want to downplay what happened."The incident is not the first time Starbucks has come under fire for an apparent anti-police attitude among its employees. Last month, a Starbucks server in Glenpool, Oklahoma wrote "PIG" on an officer's cup, an incident the company called "absolutely unacceptable." The employee was fired.In another incident over the summer, employees at a Starbucks in Tempe, Arizona asked a group of police officers to leave because another customer said they "did not feel safe" near them."The anti police culture repeatedly displayed by Starbucks employees must end," Bianco added on Twitter.
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