| Trump promotes model's fringe 'Jexodus' campaign encouraging Jews to leave Democratic Party Posted: 12 Mar 2019 07:21 AM PDT  President Trump used his massive Twitter platform to promote comments of Elizabeth Pipko, a model-turned-activist and former Trump campaign staffer who is encouraging Jews to leave the Democratic party.
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| College admissions scandal involving Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin was a long time coming. Here's how the system got so rigged. Posted: 13 Mar 2019 03:37 PM PDT  The scandal is the natural next step in a world of elite college admissions that has long favored the rich over the poor.
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| Factbox - Boeing 737 MAX 8 groundings spread across the globe Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:53 PM PDT  (Reuters) - Major European nations, including Britain, Germany and France, joined a wave of suspensions of Boeing Co's 737 MAX aircraft on Tuesday following the latest fatal crash involving the jet.
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| Surprising Ways to Eat Corned Beef, From Nachos to Egg Rolls Posted: 13 Mar 2019 10:33 AM PDT |
| Suspension doubled for cop in shooting of 18-year-old Posted: 11 Mar 2019 06:07 PM PDT ![Suspension doubled for cop in shooting of 18-year-old]( "Suspension doubled for cop in shooting of 18-year-old") CHICAGO (AP) — A police accountability office and the Chicago police superintendent have agreed to doubling the 90-day suspension that had been suggested for a Chicago police sergeant found to have unjustifiably shot an unarmed autistic 18-year-old.
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| EU needs to hear UK plan before deciding Brexit delay: Barnier Posted: 13 Mar 2019 04:06 AM PDT  The European Union must hear from Britain how it plans to proceed with Brexit before deciding whether to delay the divorce, negotiator Michel Barnier said Wednesday. On Tuesday, British MPs rejected the Brexit withdrawal plan that Prime Minister Theresa May had agreed with EU negotiators -- with just 16 days to go before Britain is due to leave the bloc. The lawmakers are to vote again on Wednesday to indicate how they plan to proceed, but Barnier was clear that Brussels will not renegotiate the agreement now.
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| California dismantles its execution chamber as governor orders moratorium on death penalty: ‘I couldn’t sleep at night’ Posted: 13 Mar 2019 03:34 PM PDT  California's governor has signed a moratorium halting the use of the death penalty, saying he would be unable to sleep at night if he sent just one innocent person to their death.
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| UK Parliament acts to avert 'absolute catastrophe' Brexit Posted: 13 Mar 2019 02:36 PM PDT  British lawmakers voted to rule out leaving the European Union without a formal departure deal when the U.K. leaves the bloc in less than three weeks.
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| Prize-winning author, 21 U.N. workers among dead in Ethiopian Airlines crash Posted: 12 Mar 2019 05:15 AM PDT  (Corrects flight number to ET 302 in first paragraph of this March 11 story.) NAIROBI (Reuters) - A prize-winning author, a soccer official and a team of humanitarian workers were among those who perished in the crash of Ethiopian Airlines Flight ET 302, government officials and employers said on Monday. Sunday's crash, minutes after take-off from Addis Ababa for a flight to Nairobi, inflicted a particularly heavy toll on the United Nations, which has large offices in both cities. At least 21 staff members were on board, said Stephane Dujarric, a U.N. spokesman.
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| The Emerging Democratic Minority Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:40 PM PDT  The biases of the media are so pervasive that there is little recognition of the steady disintegration of the Democrats, though it is occurring every day. Rational and intelligent members of the center-Left write to me every week with new concerns about where the Left is going. The Democratic National Committee's decision not to allow Fox News to put on one of their candidates' debates confirms the weakness of the party and of its leaders. The process of atomizing society into smaller and smaller bearers of less and less widespread grievances, on each of which the whole movement of protest, uproot, reveal, and punish is in constant paroxysms of righteousness, is becoming louder and faster and more absurdly overwrought by the day.To take the most prominent recent examples, the Democratic leadership has declared the Trump tax cuts and reform to be a "disaster . . . the worst legislation in history . . . crumbs" (Speaker Pelosi) for the country, and a huge payoff for the rich. Economic growth has doubled, real incomes are increasing in the middle-class and working-class income levels for the first time in 20 years, and the country has more jobs to fill than unemployed people to fill them. The Democratic leadership has not just contested the existence of a serious problem at the southern border; it has flirted with proposing the abolition of the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency, and Beto O'Rourke, who outspent prominent incumbent senator Ted Cruz three to one in Texas and came close to winning last year, not only opposes building a defined border but urges that whatever fencing and other obstacles are now in place be removed. At the same time, most official Democrats support the legal effort to prohibit the Census Bureau, in pursuing its constitutional duty to determine the apportionment of state delegations to the House of Representatives and the Electoral College, from asking people about their citizenship, just as they have long waived the necessity of being a citizen to vote.Democratic congressman Eric Swalwell (California) has sponsored legislation to protect the media from the purported threat of physical assault by President Trump and has made a television tour throughout the Cohen road-show saying that anyone who needed "a fixer" shouldn't be president. Donald Trump was a New York billionaire property developer, impresario, and reality-television star, not a librarian in Swalwell's native Sac City, Iowa. Rich and active New Yorkers do need fixers (though Trump could have done better than Cohen). American presidents need to be worldlier than they recently have been, not moralistic yokels. Swalwell is a 38-year-old fourth-term congressman who, like much of the population, is contemplating a presidential run. Another Democratic congressman, whose name I decided I did not want to know or remember shortly after his soundbite began over the weekend, said that all the House Judiciary and Intelligence Committees' subpoenas of the Trump entourage would not have been necessary if Trump had published his tax returns.This is the moronic level to which the opposition has excavated. Trump's tax returns have been audited, and often contested, every year for over 40 years by the IRS. If there were anything substantial lying dead under his fiscal floorboards, Trump's returns would be plastered and illuminated in Times Square, and Rachel Maddow would read them to viewers every night with the same breathy and then crestfallen excitement that she exhibited last year when reading from a questionably obtained Trump tax return that he had in one year paid "only . . . 55 million dollars." It was 18 months ago that Senator Chris Coons of Delaware declared that Trump's tax returns would reveal the Russian collusion to rig the election. The last Democratic vice-presidential candidate, Tim Kaine, on discovering that Trump's son and son-in-law had met with a Russian woman at the Trump Tower, announced that treason may have occurred.For two years it was thought Mueller would be the deus ex machina who would end the imposture and terminate the aberrant Trump presidency. Now that it is clear that this is not happening, the Democrats, completely shameless at having to start all over with a new canard about Trump's illegitimate election, are calling for U-Hauls full of materials and scores of witnesses to again unleash the motor-mouthed non-stop-talking television airheads to tell us once more that we don't know what we don't know, and just because Mueller couldn't do it in two years with 15 investigators (so rabidly anti-Trump that some were fired and all had to be brought into the office on leash), that doesn't mean Trump isn't a criminal. Elizabeth Warren, self-remade into one of the ludicrous figures of American public life over her claim to being a beer-swilling native, tells cheering crowds that Trump may finish his term in prison. Liberal high-mindedness has reached its coronation; the debasement of the Eleanor Roosevelt tradition.Because this president had never sought or held any public office, elected or unelected, or a high military position, his presidential candidacy, which was the subject of such uproarious mirth until he was elected, has incited the inference that anyone, everyman (and woman), can be elected to that position. Thus the field of possible Democratic candidates has become absurdly crowded with absolute poltroons. It is like a New York City Marathon for the unfit. Governor Jay Inslee of Washington, who, when a guest in the White House, reprimanded the president for sending too many tweets, and who was chief judge-shopper for the initial fatuous district-court ruling purporting to exercise the president's rights over immigration, is running for president on the climate-change issue. His own measures on the subject were rejected in his home state. Americans, rightly, do not consider this a pressing issue, but he wants to ride this hobbyhorse to the White House.There are more than 30 possible or already declared Democratic candidates, and all but three or four tick at least three of the following high-explosive booby-trap boxes: a draconian green program based on Ocasio La Pasionaria's intuition that without it the world will burn up in twelve years; personal-income-tax rates in the 70 percent range; legalized infanticide; completely nationalized health care; open borders and no attempt to distinguish citizens from noncitizens; and vast reparations to African Americans, Latinos, and native people.The Trump-hating media are enablers of a fantasy game in which everyone pretends that the Democratic party has a large number of interesting, qualified, sensible people to choose from to knock off this president. The true evidence of what is happening is that the canaries in the mineshaft are falling over. There were only four putative candidates who had the position, recognition, and sensible perspective to make a serious race. Michael Bloomberg (who has drunk himself half-silly with the climate-change Kool-Aid) has gone to his default position of aiming for secretary of state, as he did with Jeb Bush and Hillary. He left the race, and Senator Sherrod Brown of Ohio followed him. Amy Klobuchar is unlikely to have the flair to win, but she is a presentable candidate. The inevitable Joe Biden, who first ran for president in 1988 but was knocked out for cribbing a platitudinous line from defeated British Labour-party leader Neil Kinnock, seems likely to make the race.In fact, Joe Biden is the man America needs. To be sure, he could not possibly win, and he does not have the judgment or moral authority to be an effective president. But he is an amiable old water buffalo who would make a somewhat respectable race and gather together the many Democratic constituencies that are now proliferating and multiplying like an aggressive virus, and by his honorable example, though failing to excite anyone, might also prevent every sane Democrat from voting Republican. Biden might spare his party a terrible fate and deliver it to a serious contender in 2024, when the country could be expected to continue its now well-established pattern of alternating parties in the White House every eight years. The polls are not now asking the questions they will in 18 months: Trump will have delivered on the economy, illegal immigration, trade, energy, and avoidance of foreign-policy fiascos, and his opponents are mainly quacks. America needs a two-party system with sane people at the head of each. Joe Biden is no world-beater, but he could spare the Democrats a world-historic beating at the polls next year.
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| 'Affirmative action for the rich:' How the privileged legally game the college admissions process Posted: 13 Mar 2019 03:33 PM PDT  Wealthy and influential parents often routinely use their privilege to game the college admissions process. And it's perfectly legal.
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| Mitt Romney Blows Out Birthday Candles One By One if You Must Know Posted: 12 Mar 2019 08:05 AM PDT  Utah's junior senator has a unique way of blowing out birthday candles.
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| Pound Slides as Optimism on May's Revised Brexit Deal Fizzles Posted: 12 Mar 2019 05:06 AM PDT  The pound slid in a swift turn of fortunes on speculation that a revised Brexit deal negotiated overnight won't pass Parliament. Sterling fell more than 1 percent after U.K. Attorney General Geoffrey Cox said that legal risks remained over the Irish backstop, damping the prospect of Prime Minister Theresa May garnering enough support from lawmakers in a vote Tuesday. "Sterling has been knocked back on the news that Cox is not throwing all of his weight behind last night's amendment to the Withdrawal Plan," said Jane Foley, currency strategist at Rabobank International.
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| Turkish, Israeli name-calling covers 'tyrant' to 'dictator' Posted: 13 Mar 2019 09:28 AM PDT  ANKARA, Turkey (AP) — The latest quarrel between the leaders of Turkey and Israel continued for a second day Wednesday as Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan labeled Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu a "thief" and a "tyrant."
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| College admission cheating scam: List of Southern California residents charged in alleged scheme Posted: 13 Mar 2019 12:07 AM PDT  More than a dozen Southern California residents, including two Hollywood actresses, have been charged in the largest college admissions cheating scam ever prosecuted in the United States.
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| Honda re-recalls 1 mln cars in US with defective airbags Posted: 12 Mar 2019 08:35 AM PDT  American Honda is once again recalling a million cars in the United States after it found that replacement parts to fix defective Takata airbags were also defective, the company said Tuesday. The company said it will replace the defective airbags in 1.1 million Acura and Honda models ranging from 2001 to 2016 model years. The issue was discovered following a crash involving a 2004 Honda Odyssey minivan in which the airbag inflator ruptured, injuring the driver's arm, the automaker said in a statement.
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| Venezuela blackout: what caused it and what happens next? Posted: 13 Mar 2019 08:10 AM PDT  The oil-rich country was hit by a devastating power cut last Thursday and parts of the capital and other cities are still affectedA girl reads at her house with the help of a candle during blackouts on Tuesday in Caracas. Photograph: Getty Images What's happening with the power in Venezuela?The oil-rich but crisis-afflicted South American country suffered a massive blackout last Thursday, affecting at least 18 of its 23 states. The power cut has left food rotting in refrigerators, hospitals struggling to keep vital equipment operating, and the transport system in chaos.According to opposition leaders, the blackout has left 26 people dead – six of them babies. By Tuesday, the information minister, Jorge Rodríguez, said power had been restored to the "vast majority" of the country, but parts of the capital and other cities remained without power on Wednesday morning. The Caracas metro system was still out of action. What caused the blackout?It depends who you ask. The Venezuelan president, Nicolás Maduro, accuses the US of engaging in a "demonic" plot to force him from power by crippling the country's electricity system with an imperialist "electromagnetic attack".Maduro says the Pentagon and the US Southern Command have masterminded a "cyber-attack against the electrical, telecommunication and internet systems".His government has also asked the country's supreme court to open an investigation into the opposition leader Juan Guaidó for alleged involvement in the "sabotage" of the national power grid.However, details of the sabotage alleged by the government are sketchy..Analysts and engineers give a more prosaic explanation: that the power cut is the result of years of underinvestment in a network that has been mismanaged, neglected and put in the hands of soldiers rather than qualified technicians. As in other institutions, senior positions at Corpoelec, the state-owned energy company, have been stacked with government loyalists, while many skilled engineers have joined the 3 million Venezuelans who have left the country. Where does Venezuela's electricity come from?Before the discovery of the world's largest oil reserves, Venezuela established a national grid built on hydroelectric and thermoelectric power. Today, the Guri dam hydroelectric plant in eastern Venezuela supplies about 80% of the country's electricity.Experts believe that failure to properly manage the electricity grid may have caused a fire that destroyed one of the huge lines that transport power from the Guri dam to Caracas.According to Rodrigo Linares, a mechanical engineer and writer for the Caracas Chronicles website, the fault occurred on one of the main power lines between the San Gerónimo B and Malena substations. When that 765-kilovolt line went down, two others suffered an overload and also failed."That basically interrupted the electricity highway and stopped energy reaching consumers," says Linares. Is this the first time the country has suffered supply problems?New construction on thermoelectric power plants and other hydroelectric plants has been stalled for years, and localised power cuts are a daily occurrence around Venezuela.There have also been problems with the supply from the Guri dam in the past.In 2010, Maduro's predecessor, Hugo Chávez, declared an "electricity emergency" after a drought caused by the El Niño weather phenomenon left waters at the dam dangerously low.Six years later, Venezuela's worst drought in four decades again affected the Guri dam, which then provided about 70% of the country's electricity.In May last year, a union leader representing workers in the state power corporation, was arrested by Venezuela's intelligence service, Sebin, after warning that poor maintenance and systemic problems meant that a blackout was likely to happen. Could the US have carried out a cyber-attack in an effort to topple Maduro's regime?The Maduro administration is adamant that it could – and has. The country's vice-president, Delcy Rodríguez, claims to have discerned the "putrid hands" of the anti-Maduro Republican senator Marco Rubio in the affair.President Nicolás Maduro speaks during a meeting on the energy crisis with members of the government in Caracas on Tuesday. Photograph: Handout/ReutersRubio has dismissed the suggestions with a sarcastic tweet: "My apologies to people of Venezuela. I must have pressed the wrong thing on the 'electronic attack' app I downloaded from Apple. My bad."The US has a long and brutal history of covert operations in Latin America, prompting those sympathetic to Maduro to point out that a blackout interrupted a broadcast by the Chilean president Salvador Allende not long before his socialist government was overthrown in 1973. A year later, the director of the CIA told Congress that the administration of Richard Nixon had authorised more than $8m to fund activities designed to destabilise Allende's government. Is US sabotage really the the most likely explanation?Many of those most familiar with the Venezuelan national grid think not.Miguel Lara, former chief of the state-run agency responsible for the electricity system, said that one of Latin America's best-managed and most productive electrical networks had, in recent years, been underfunded and overexploited.Lara said that the advice of qualified engineers had been ignored, causing many to leave. Without them, he added, the network had fallen into a dangerous state of disrepair."The network lines and transformers weren't looked after and got overgrown with vegetation and that vegetation started to cause failures. It's poor maintenance and negligence."Lara flatly rejected suggestions of cyber sabotage, as did engineers who told the Associated Press that the computers that monitor the Guri plant's operating systems are not connected to the internet."The control and supervision systems are interconnected and are from the 1990s and have never been updated," said Lara. "They're obsolete technology."He also said the area around the Guri dam was too well guarded to allow intruders to gain access. "There's no way anyone gets in there," he said. "There's a whole chain of command that regulates who's allowed in to carry out works."His thoughts echoed those of Chávez's former oil minister, Rafael Ramírez, who went into exile after splitting with Maduro in 2017."Guri has collapsed because of a lack of maintenance, just like the thermoelectric plants and the transmission and distribution lines," he tweeted. What happens next?Even if the power is coming back on, Venezuela's electricity network will have been further weakened by the blackout.Linares describes the current state of energy infrastructure in the country as "wretched; most of the qualified people have left the country".Lara agrees. "The electricity supply for Venezuelans will be worse than it was before," he said. "And it wasn't good before. There's no doubt this was all foreseeable. That's why people have left – they saw there was no will to fix it. It'll only be more difficult from here on in."
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| Ungagged: The Cardinal Pell trials Posted: 13 Mar 2019 02:43 AM PDT  After I spent weeks covering the trial of Cardinal George Pell in a small court room in Melbourne, a New York-based reporter for a U.S. media organization was first with the news that one of the most senior officials in the Vatican had been convicted of sexually assaulting two choir boys. Media had been barred by the court from publishing anything in Australia about Pell's prosecution on five sexual offences committed against the two boys at St Patrick's Cathedral in Melbourne 22 years ago. Pell was found guilty in December, a verdict announced in court, but the gag order was lifted only on Feb 26.
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| Trump repeats false claim there is no climate change crisis as he brands science 'fake' Posted: 12 Mar 2019 06:11 AM PDT  Donald Trump has repeated the false claim that climate change is not real and that the science demonstrating the crisis is "fake". The president appeared to be tweeting a statement he heard from Fox News on Tuesday morning, writing, "Patrick Moore, co-founder of Greenpeace: "The whole climate crisis is not only Fake News, it's Fake Science.
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| Aunt Becky from 'Full House' is in trouble Posted: 12 Mar 2019 06:35 PM PDT  From Felicity Huffman to Boeing planes in the air, here's Tuesday's top news.
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| A Powerful 'Bomb Cyclone' Could Impact 70 Million Americans. Here's Everything to Know Posted: 13 Mar 2019 09:24 AM PDT  A "bomb cyclone" is approaching the central U.S. and is expected to bring blizzard conditions and strong winds to a major portion of the country.
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| U.K. Parliament Just Turned Down Another Brexit Deal 17 Days From the Deadline Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:41 PM PDT  U.K. lawmakers voted down May's deal with the European Union for a second time in just two months, with just 17 days to go before Brexit.
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| GM's new Corvette is so powerful, it's warping the frame in tests, report says Posted: 13 Mar 2019 10:13 AM PDT  The redesigned Chevrolet Corvette C8 for 2020 has a new engine that is reportedly so powerful it's compromising the vehicle's structural integrity.
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| California's new governor may commute death sentences Posted: 13 Mar 2019 05:20 PM PDT  SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) — Gov. Gavin Newsom not only put a moratorium on executions in California on Wednesday, he said he also may commute death sentences and is pushing to repeal capital punishment.
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| Pell victim says 'hard to take comfort' from sentencing Posted: 12 Mar 2019 06:30 PM PDT  The former choirboy molested by Australian Cardinal George Pell said Wednesday it was "hard to take comfort" from the Vatican official's sentence of six years in prison for the crime. Pell was sentenced in the County Court of Victoria after being found guilty of five counts of sexual and indecent assault in the sacristy of a Melbourne cathedral in 1996 and 1997. Chief Justice Peter Kidd told the court the 77-year-old would be eligible for parole after serving a minimum term of three years and eight months.
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| Trump's ex-lawyer Cohen says testimony 'could have been clearer': lawyer Posted: 13 Mar 2019 04:15 PM PDT  U.S. President Donald Trump's former personal lawyer Michael Cohen's testimony to Congress regarding any potential pardon for his crimes "could have been clearer," but he never personally asked the president for such a reprieve, Cohen's lawyer said. In a statement to lawmakers on Tuesday, Cohen's legal team sought to clarify his recent testimony amid questions over whether Cohen sought, or Trump offered, a pardon to the man who once declared he would take a bullet for the Republican president but later flipped to cooperate with federal prosecutors. Cohen, who is to report to prison in May for campaign finance crimes and previously lying to Congress, said at a public hearing before a U.S. House of Representatives panel last month, "I have never asked for, nor would I accept, a pardon from President Trump." Trump himself challenged that claim.
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| Flight to Malaysia forced to turn around after mother leaves baby at airport Posted: 11 Mar 2019 08:45 PM PDT  A young mother on a flight from Saudi Arabia to Malaysia reportedly had the shock of her life when she realised she had accidentally left her baby behind in the airport terminal. The Saudi Arabian Airlines flight to Kuala Lumpur returned to its gate in King Abdulaziz airport, Jeddah after the panicked woman alerted cabin crew that she had forgotten to bring her child. A video of the pilot requesting Air Traffic Control in Arabic and English for permission to return has gone viral on social media. "May God be with us. Can we come back or what?" he is heard asking. One of the surprised controllers can then be heard telling a colleague: "This flight is requesting to come back…a passenger forgot her baby in the waiting area, the poor thing." He then adds: "OK, head back to the gate. This is totally a new one for us!" The Gulf News reported that the bizarre incident took place over the weekend, implying that the plane was already in the air. However, some reports have suggested that the flight had not yet taken off, and the sequence of events is unclear from the video. The story ended happily, with the mother and baby reunited. The circumstances that led to her forgetting the baby are not known, but it would not be the first high-profile story of a parent unwittingly leaving a child behind. Former British Prime Minister David Cameron and his wife Samantha had a heart-stopping moment in 2012 when they realised they had left a Buckinghamshire pub without their daughter Nancy, 8. After meeting friends at the pub, they left in separate cars, only to realise at their destination that Nancy was not in either of them. When the prime minister's wife rushed back distraught to the venue, she found her daughter safe and well and helping the staff. Sign up for your essential, twice-daily briefing from The Telegraph with our free Front Page newsletter. Have you accidentally left your child somewhere? Or did your parents ever do it to you? Tell us in the comments section below. To join the conversation log in to your Telegraph account or register for free, here.
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| New sale saves you $30 on Instant Pot’s most advanced model Posted: 12 Mar 2019 09:22 AM PDT ![New sale saves you $30 on Instant Pot's most advanced model]( "New sale saves you $30 on Instant Pot's most advanced model") The Instant Pot DUO60 is by far the best-selling model Instant Pot sells, but there's another version of this popular multicooker that you might not even be aware of. It's called the Instant Pot DUO Plus 60, 6 Qt 9-in-1 Multi- Use Programmable Pressure Cooker and it's basically a supercharged version of the DUO60. It has additional cooking modes and more advanced settings, and it's on sale right now on Amazon with a $30 discount.Here are the highlights from the product page: * Duo Plus is the latest evolution in the 1 selling multi-cooker the Duo series with more custom features, improved usability and a large attractive blue LCD screen * Duo Plus replaces 9 common kitchen appliances including Pressure Cooker, Slow Cooker, Rice Cooker, Yogurt Maker, Egg Cooker, Saute, Steamer, Warmer, Sterilizer and it makes cake too * Up to 70% quicker. A great meal is a press of button away with 15 Microprocessor controlled programs taking the guess-work out of your cooking. You can achieve prefect results every time * All components in contact with food are food grade 304 (18/8) Stainless steel including the lid, the inner pot with 3-ply bottom and steam rack with handles. They are easy to clean and dishwasher safe.Product Dimensions: 14.17 x 14.84 x 13.31 inches * UL certified with 10 proven safety mechanisms gives you peace of mind. Highly energy efficient, this kitchen friendly cooker emits no steam when cooking, contains all smells and automates your cooking. Accessories include - steam rack with handles, recipe booklet, serving spoon, soup spoon, and measuring cup * Power supply: 120V - 60Hz
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| Woman attacked by jaguar says Arizona zoo should consider 'moving fence' Posted: 12 Mar 2019 10:02 AM PDT  A woman who was mauled by a jaguar at an Arizona zoo said she was in the "wrong" but that the zoo should consider moving the fence. The woman, identified as Leanne, was visiting the Wildlife World Zoo near Phoenix on Saturday when she decided to take a selfie with a black jaguar.
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| Musk's lawyers say tweet complied with SEC fraud settlement Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:30 AM PDT  DETROIT (AP) — Tesla CEO Elon Musk should not be found in contempt of court because he has complied with the terms of a securities fraud settlement, his attorneys wrote in documents filed Monday night with the U.S. District Court in Manhattan.
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| Twitter releases Twttr prototype app to improve tweet conversations Posted: 12 Mar 2019 03:08 AM PDT  Twitter has announced that the company's prototype application twttr has launched and begun rolling out to the first group of testers as spotted by TechCrunch. To combat the issue, Twitter has launched a prototype app that gives participants a chance to work with a handful of new experimental features designed to improve conversation viewing. The prototype app twttr, whose name is a reference to the platform's original project code name, was first announced at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas in January of this year and began accepting applications for test participants in February.
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| Boeing 737 Max: What you should know if you're booked on a flight Posted: 12 Mar 2019 04:32 PM PDT  Which airlines fly the Boeing 737 Max? Where is the Boeing 737 Max 8 made? All your questions answered.
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| U.S. immigration agency to close its overseas offices Posted: 12 Mar 2019 12:20 PM PDT  The move is the latest from an administration that has worked to limit both legal and illegal immigration since Trump took office in January 2017, including cuts to the U.S. refugee program and heightened vetting of U.S. visa applications. U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) Director Francis Cissna, in an email message to agency employees, announced plans for closure of the international field offices. The agency, part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, currently operates 23 offices overseas, scattered across Latin America, Europe and Asia, according to the agency's website.
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| Eight killed, 37 rescued, in Lagos building collapse Posted: 13 Mar 2019 02:26 PM PDT  Children had been attending an "illegal school" inside the residential building when the structure collapsed, officials said. "Thirty-seven people were rescued alive and eight were recovered dead," Ibrahim Farinloye of the National Emergency Management Agency (NEMA) said in a statement. Earlier officials said dozens of children were trapped inside the building which collapsed mid-morning in an area near Itafaji market on Lagos Island.
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| Senate GOP Shows More Zeal to Challenge Trump on Foreign Policy Posted: 13 Mar 2019 08:19 AM PDT  Some conservatives are indicating they may join Democrats to defy the White House in a vote planned Wednesday on a resolution that would withdraw U.S. support for the Saudi-led war in Yemen. Republican senators also are sponsoring legislation to impose additional sanctions on Russia and are pushing additional punishment for Saudi Arabia over the killing of columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Republican senators generally have been reluctant to criticize Trump on domestic issues -- in part because of the president's sway with GOP voters -- though at least a few plan to vote Thursday against the president's emergency declaration to fund border wall construction.
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| Kim Jong-un absent from North Korea election announcement Posted: 11 Mar 2019 10:12 PM PDT  Kim Jong-un was not on the list of 687 candidates elected to the North Korean parliament in Sunday's election, state media announced on Tuesday, although his sister was voted into the rubber-stamp parliament. No reason has been given for Mr Kim's absence from the ballot, five years after he was elected in the previous vote as head of the Workers' Party of Korea. Every candidate who did run in the election was returned with 100 percent of the vote in their constituencies, including Kim Yo-jung, Mr Kim's younger sister, who previously worked in the government's propaganda division but has more recently taken on the management of his day-to-day schedule. "North Korean elections have no meaning anyway, but this is designed to show that Kim feels himself to be above those who were elected", said Toshimitsu Shigemura, a professor who specialises in North Korea's leadership at Tokyo's Waseda University. "He is telling the nation that he is not on the same level as the rest of the party and it is effectively beneath him to go through the election process", he added. "This will not affect his control on the party or the nation, but it is meant to show that he's a better leader than his own father and Kim Il-sung, his grandfather and the founder of North Korea". Rah Jong-yil, a former head of South Korean intelligence charged with monitoring the North, echoed that assessment. "Kim apparently does not consider it necessary for himself to be elected, but he is the head of state so he will still be in parliament and make all the decisions, which means the entire election is a joke. "It's all for the facade of legitimacy and this will change nothing in the way the country is run or the leadership's policies". Fully 99.99 percent of all eligible voters had exercised their democratic right to select their leaders, KCNA reported, with citizens serving at sea excused the obligation to vote. The results of the election were never in any doubt - each ballot paper only has one name and anyone who wants to vote against the approved candidate has to enter a special booth and put a cross through the name. But defectors say that Mr Kim's standing has been damaged by his failure to win concessions on sanctions on the regime at the recent Hanoi summit with President Donald Trump. "Mr Kim expected a lot from this summit", said Lee Ae-ran, who fled North Korea with her family in 1997 but retains contacts there as president of The Centre for Liberty and Reunification. "It was more than simply relief from the sanctions; he believed a victory in Hanoi would earn him more support from the people, enabling him to tighten his control over the nation even more". And while discontent was never going to be reflected in Sunday's election, Mrs Lee says it is not far beneath the surface. "The sanctions are causing the economic devastation to spread in the North and people are struggling to overcome the terrible shortage of food", she told The Telegraph. "I believe the grudges they hold towards Kim could worsen and possibly even explode. "Any rupture could be lethal to Kim Jong-un and his regime", she added. Voters queue to cast their ballots at the '3.26 Pyongyang Cable Factory' during voting for the Supreme People's Assembly elections, in Pyongyang Credit: ED JONES/AFP Mrs Lee said the North Korean dictator will use the election to "replace the 'older generation', who were loyal to his father, with his own group of flatterers", but she believes the resentment will inevitably deepen. "If the people in the North can continue to build stronger connections with the outside world and complaints against the party and the leadership continue to grow, then the people will realise that they can escape from the abuse that they are presently suffering at the hands of their own leaders", she said. Jiro Ishimaru, chief editor of AsiaPress, said his network of "citizen reporters" in North Korea is saying that there is "extreme disappointment" at the failure of the Hanoi summit, which the regime had indicated would be a victory for Mr Kim that would see sanctions quickly lifted. There is a growing sense that Mr Kim "is an incompetent person", he added.
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| For Manafort's sentencing, a trip to the pre-cellphone era Posted: 12 Mar 2019 07:21 PM PDT  Reporters at the Albert V. Bryan United States Courthouse have two options: run to the pay phone on the second floor, or scramble outside and look for an iPhone stashed away earlier. On the afternoon of March 7, U.S. President Donald Trump's former campaign chairman, Paul Manafort, was wheeled into a ninth-floor courtroom to learn his fate. Crippled by gout and wearing a green prison uniform, Manafort faced up to 24 years in prison after a jury found him guilty of hiding millions of dollars from tax authorities and lying to banks about his financial status.
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| Ford Slaps a Top-Speed Governor on the Most Powerful Mustang Shelby GT500 to Date Posted: 13 Mar 2019 06:00 AM PDT  The Shelby GT500 will deliver the goods in corners, not just a straight line.
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| Bay Area parents allegedly involved in college admissions scam worried about exposure by media Posted: 12 Mar 2019 09:13 PM PDT  According to the complaint, several parents were worried they'd be exposed in the news. Still, they allegedly paid hundreds of thousands of dollars to help their children cheat on college entrance exams.
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| Tucker Carlson: New audio reveals Fox News host calling Iraqis 'semi-literate monkeys' and using homophobic slur Posted: 12 Mar 2019 05:02 AM PDT  New audio recordings have emerged purporting to show Fox News host Tucker Carlson calling Iraqis "semi-literate, primitive monkeys" and questioning Barack Obama's identity as a black man. The Tucker Carlson Tonight presenter can be heard saying white men deserve credit for "creating civilisation" and using a homophobic slur while joking with radio personality Bubba the Love Sponge. Media Matters for America (MMFA), a self-declared watchdog of "conservative misinformation", said the clips originated from between 2006 and 2011.
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| Verizon's mobile 5G network goes live on April 11, starting in Chicago and Minneapolis Posted: 13 Mar 2019 07:50 AM PDT  Verizon is finally ready to start turning on its mobile 5G network, and tapping into it won't cost a lot more than current 4G LTE.
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| CNN hit with $275 million defamation suit by Kentucky student Posted: 13 Mar 2019 05:53 AM PDT  The lawsuit, filed on behalf of Covington Catholic High School student Nicholas Sandmann in federal court in Kentucky, seeks $275 million in compensatory and punitive damages over the videotaped incident in the nation's capital. Sandmann and other Covington Catholic students had been in Washington to attend a March for Life anti-abortion rally.
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| EU warns of no-deal Brexit, says cannot offer more Posted: 12 Mar 2019 01:25 PM PDT  The British parliament's rejection of the Brexit agreement makes crashing out of the EU without a deal much more likely, the bloc said Tuesday, as it warned there is no more it can do. Lawmakers inflicted another crushing defeat on beleaguered Prime Minister Theresa May, voting to reject the divorce deal, even after she secured further guarantees from Brussels. Senior EU officials lined up to voice regret at the result, and to hammer home the message that Brussels would not make any further concessions to help May win round recalcitrant MPs.
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| Despite differences, Dems stick with Pelosi on impeachment Posted: 12 Mar 2019 02:54 PM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — Democrats are largely lining up behind House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and her wait-and-see strategy on any impeachment proceedings against President Donald Trump.
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