| Trump blasts report that Mueller aides think Barr sugarcoated his summary Posted: 04 Apr 2019 09:21 AM PDT  President Trump lashed out at the New York Times over a report that some members of special counsel Robert Mueller's team say their findings were more damning than how Attorney General William Barr described them.
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| Jury: Hart mothers drugged, killed all six children by driving SUV over California cliff into Pacific Ocean Posted: 05 Apr 2019 03:43 PM PDT  Jennifer and Sarah Hart gave their six children as many as 19 doses each of Benadryl before driving their SUV over a steep cliff, a jury ruled.
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| Boeing defends 'fundamental safety' of 737 MAX after crash report Posted: 04 Apr 2019 06:30 PM PDT  Embattled US aviation giant Boeing on Thursday insisted on the "fundamental safety" of its 737 MAX aircraft but pledged to take all necessary steps to ensure the jets' airworthiness. The preliminary findings released Thursday by transportation authorities in Addis Ababa put the American aircraft giant under even greater pressure to restore public trust, with nearly 350 people dead in crashes involving its formerly top-selling 737 MAX aircraft in less than five months amid mounting signs the company's onboard anti-stall systems were fault. Muilenburg also acknowledged, however, that an "erroneous activation" of Boeing's so-called Maneuvering Characteristics Augmentation System had occurred.
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| Is This 2001 Acura Integra Type R A Barn Find Or A Time Capsule? Posted: 05 Apr 2019 06:34 AM PDT  This Canadian-spec 2001 Acura Integra Type R is one of just 250 copies equipped with OEM red Type R seats and has 82,000 miles on the odometer. The 2001 Acura Integra Type R is one of the most sought-after JDM cars in the enthusiast and collector car market. This particular Canadian-spec 2001 Acura Integra Type R currently for sale on eBay was recently uncovered in a barn near Montreal where it was sealed behind a barn by its original owner.
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| U.S. Senate Republicans change procedures to speed up Trump confirmations Posted: 03 Apr 2019 07:04 PM PDT  The move to shorten debate on such nominees from 30 hours to two hours was resisted by Democrats but they could not block it because Republicans hold 53 seats in the 100-seat chamber. Senator Mitch McConnell used his powers as majority leader to make the change, which will set a precedent that will apply to district court judges, the lowest rung of the judiciary, but not vacancies in the Supreme Court and federal appeals courts. The Senate has historically provided greater protection for whichever party is in the minority than the 435-seat House of Representatives by allowing longer debating time before votes and requiring 60 yes votes for most approvals.
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| FBI rejects young man's claim to be long-missing boy Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:54 PM PDT  CINCINNATI (AP) — A young man's claim to be an Illinois boy who disappeared under tragic circumstances eight years ago was disproved by DNA tests and pronounced a hoax Thursday, dashing hopes that the baffling case had finally been solved.
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| Jamie Dimon Says He Didn't Seriously Consider Running for President Posted: 04 Apr 2019 04:24 PM PDT  "I tell people, I thought that I should think about it," Dimon said Thursday, drawing laughs from the audience at a Council on Foreign Relations event in New York. CNBC reported earlier in the day that Dimon spent much of 2018 mulling a possible run for president.
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| Teen claims he is Illinois boy that has been missing since 2011 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 04:35 AM PDT  Police are reportedly waiting on DNA results to identify if the 14-year-old is Timmothy Pitzen, last seen with his mother at a Wisconsin waterpark 7 years ago.
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| Trump visits U.S.-Mexico border, Kathie Lee Gifford leaves 'Today': 5 things to know Friday Posted: 05 Apr 2019 01:31 AM PDT  President Trump tours the U.S.-Mexico border in California, Kathie Lee Gifford says goodbye to "Today" and more things to start your Friday.
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| Dem. Rep. Bashes Green New Deal: ‘There’s No Need to Lie to Voters’ Posted: 04 Apr 2019 09:53 AM PDT  Representative Max Rose (D., N.Y.) lambasted fellow New York freshman Democrat Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez on Wednesday for using the threat of climate change to advance a "massive socialist economic-policy platform" via the Green New Deal plan she introduced earlier this year.Rose, during a Wednesday interview on New York's local Metro Focus program, agreed with Ocasio-Cortez and her fellow progressives that climate change is an existential threat that requires a commensurate response, but argued that the federal-jobs and housing guarantees included in the plan are not necessary to combat climate change."This is not the time for milquetoast incrementalism," Rose said. "It just isn't. But with that being said, nothing about what I just said would provide a justification for a massive socialist economic-policy platform. [It's] just not needed.""There's no need to lie to voters right now," he added. "We don't need the Democratic version of 'repeal and replace.'"Rose, who earned a Purple Heart and a bronze star for his Army service in Afghanistan, dared Ocasio-Cortez to back a primary challenger against him when asked about her threat to unseat any Democrat who refused to back her progressive vision."She's going to keep a list," Rose said, referring to reports that Ocasio-Cortez threatened to make a list of uncooperative Democrats to provide to liberal activists. "This is very simple because I'm not one to deal in subtleties. I think it's best not to be passive-aggressive. If she wants to primary me, if the Justice Democrats want to primary me, I'll lay out the red carpet. We can settle this at the polls."The Green New Deal, which calls for a comprehensive restructuring of the economy in order to transition to 100 percent renewable energy within twelve years, would cost between $51 and $93 trillion in new government spending, according to the estimates of the American Action Forum.Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell held a vote on the plan late last month, prompting accusations from Democratic leadership that he was rushing the legislation to the floor in order to avoid having a substantive debate on it. Rather than going on record in support of the resolution, Democrats uniformly voted "present" while Republicans unanimously opposed its passage.
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| Philippines' Duterte warns China to back off disputed island Posted: 04 Apr 2019 06:43 PM PDT  Philippine President Rodrigo Duterte has warned Beijing to back off from a disputed island in the South China Sea, warning of possible military action if China "touches" it amid rising tensions over the key waterway. Duterte, aiming to attract trade and investment from the Asian superpower, has mostly withheld his early criticism of Beijing's expansive claims to the sea -- a point of regional contention because trillions of dollars of goods pass through it. "I will not plead or beg, but I am just telling you that lay off the Pag-asa because I have soldiers there," Duterte said in speech to prosecutors.
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| Boeing Takes Full Responsibility For Two Plane Crashes That Killed 360 People Posted: 04 Apr 2019 02:13 PM PDT  Boeing's CEO apologized for the two incidents and says a software update is imminent.
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| Meow hear this: Study says cats react to sound of their name Posted: 04 Apr 2019 06:15 AM PDT  NEW YORK (AP) — Hey Kitty! Yes, you. A new study suggests household cats can respond to the sound of their own names.
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| McConnell is trying to leave a lifetime conservative legacy through judicial appointments: Today's talker Posted: 05 Apr 2019 12:36 PM PDT  Senate majority leader, who blocked Merrick Garland's Supreme Court nomination, accuses Democrats of obstructionism.
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| Jussie Smollett fallout: Suburban Chicago police chiefs call on prosecutor Kim Foxx to resign Posted: 04 Apr 2019 06:47 PM PDT  A group of suburban Chicago police chiefs as well as the Chicago police union on Thursday called on Kim Foxx, the Chicago-area prosecutor whose office abruptly dropped charges against "Empire" actor Jussie Smollett, to immediately resign from her position.
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| The Latest: Jury rules murder-suicide in cliff deaths Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:37 PM PDT  SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — The Latest on a coroner's inquest into the deaths of a family whose SUV went off a Northern California cliff (all times local):
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| How a Russian S-400 Could Shoot Down an F-35 (Thanks to Turkey) Posted: 04 Apr 2019 01:00 PM PDT  Russian and American technology don't mix.
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| She was kidnapped in Uganda. They want $500K. Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:47 PM PDT  From an American kidnapped on a safari in Uganda to the first photo of a black hole, here's Wednesday's news.
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| The 25 Best-Selling Cars, Trucks, and SUVs of 2019 (So Far) Posted: 04 Apr 2019 09:30 AM PDT |
| Trump backtracks on border closure and levies new threat at Mexico Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:51 PM PDT  After a 'one-year warning', the president said he would bring tariffs on Mexico's cars 'if the drugs don't stop'Cargo trucks line up to cross the US-Mexico border in Tijuana, Mexico. Photograph: Guillermo Arias/AFP/Getty ImagesDonald Trump has scrapped his stated plan to close the border with Mexico, saying instead he would give the country a "one-year warning" and threatening tariffs on cars.Six days ago Trump said he would close the border this week, unless Mexico "immediately stop ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States through our southern border".But, speaking to reporters this afternoon, Trump backtracked on his border closure threat, which had been criticized by advisers and business leaders."We're going to give them a one-year warning, and if the drugs don't stop or largely stop, we're going to put tariffs on Mexico and products, particularly cars," Trump said. "And if that doesn't stop the drugs, we close the border."In his latest backtrack in recent days, Trump told reporters he would try the "less drastic measure" before resorting to his standing border-closure threat."Mexico understands that we're going to close the border or I'm going to tariff the cars. I'll do one or the other. And probably start off with the tariffs," Trump said. He added later: "I don't think we'll ever have to close the border because the penalty of tariffs on cars coming into the United States from Mexico, at 25%, will be massive."It was the latest, seemingly sudden attempt at new leverage by a president struggling to solve what his administration has called a border "crisis". And it was a dramatic departure for Trump, who last week tweeted that he would close the border or large swaths of it this week unless Mexico immediately halted "ALL illegal immigration coming into the United States" – a seemingly impossible task.Trump said at the time that he was "not kidding around", and his acting chief of staff Mick Mulvaney said in a television interview on Sunday that it would take "something dramatic" for Trump not to close down the crossings.Since then, however, White House advisers, border city leaders and US economists have warned that such a move would have enormous economic consequences on both sides of the border, interrupting supply chains and boosting US consumer prices on everything from avocados to autos.Trump in recent days has also backtracked on his push for Republicans to again take on healthcare and surprised his own education secretary by reversing a plan to ax federal aid for the Special Olympics.Those actions have only added to longstanding concerns about whether Trump's words can be trusted. Trump, who has long said his unpredictability is one of his greatest negotiating assets, has also followed through with some of his most bombastic threats, including forcing the country's longest-ever government shutdown over border funding.Trump had already appeared to be easing off his border threat earlier this week. Though he said on Tuesday all options remained on the table, he shifted his goal posts, calling on Congress to pass immigration legislation to avert a closure and praising the Mexican government for doing more to apprehend migrants traveling through the country from Central America – though it's unclear anything has changed.Marcelo Ebrard, Mexico's foreign relations secretary, said on Tuesday his government had not changed its policies. And on Thursday, Martha Barcena, Mexico's ambassador to the US, told the Associated Press the country was working to make its own border "more orderly" but "migration will never be stopped".Jesús Seade, the Mexican undersecretary for North America, also brushed off the threat of new tariffs, saying officials were "not concerned" and noting the tariffs are not part of the United States-Mexico-Canada Trade Agreement that the countries have agreed to but not yet ratified.As for concerns his actions might interfere with the trade deal he fought for, Trump said the border was "more important to me than the USMCA".Trump has wide-ranging power to impose tariffs on national security grounds, which he has repeatedly used as leverage against other countries. But the USMCA was worded to protect Mexico against auto tariffs based on national security concerns, and trade lawyer Daniel D Ujczo said those provisions are already in effect under a side letter."In short, this is the exact scenario that the Mexican negotiating team predicted and secured protections from in the USMCA," he said. "Mexico 'Trump-and-tweet-proofed' its auto sector," and the White House "would need to get very creative to impose auto tariffs on Mexico".
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| UPDATE 7-Ethiopian crash report highlights sensors, software, leaves questions Posted: 04 Apr 2019 01:36 AM PDT ![UPDATE 7-Ethiopian crash report highlights sensors, software, leaves questions]( "UPDATE 7-Ethiopian crash report highlights sensors, software, leaves questions") ADDIS ABABA/SEATTLE, April 4 (Reuters) - Faulty sensor readings and multiple automatic commands to push down the nose of a Boeing plane contributed to last month's fatal crash in Ethiopia, leaving the crew struggling to regain control, according to a preliminary accident report. The first substantial account of the last minutes of Ethiopian Airlines flight 302 from Addis Ababa to Nairobi on March 10 described how the captain three times called out: "Pull up" and was acknowledged by the first officer, but to no avail. Boeing's top-selling aircraft, the 787 MAX, has been grounded worldwide since the March 10 disaster, which killed 157 people and came just five months after a Lion Air crash in Indonesia that killed 189 in a plane of the same model.
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| Bezos ex-wife to surrender 75% of couple's Amazon shares Posted: 04 Apr 2019 11:09 AM PDT  MacKenzie Bezos, ex-wife of Amazon founder Jeff Bezos, announced Thursday they had finalized their divorce, and that she would surrender 75 percent of the couple's shares in the tech giant. MacKenzie Bezos also said she would give all of her stake in The Washington Post and the space exploration firm Blue Origin to her ex-husband -- the world's richest man -- as well as voting control of her remaining Amazon shares. In a filing with the US Securities and Exchange Commission, Amazon said MacKenzie Bezos now controls four percent of the company's outstanding common stock.
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| Body of Israeli soldier missing since 1982 Lebanon War found by Russian and Syrian armies Posted: 04 Apr 2019 10:19 AM PDT  The body of an Israeli soldier missing since the 1982 Lebanon War was found by the Russian and Syrian armies, Vladimir Putin, the Russian president, said yesterday. But Syrian state news agency SANA said Damascus had no details on the discovery of the corpse. Sergeant First Class Zachary Baumel had been listed as missing along with two other Israeli soldiers after a deadly battle with Syrian forces in a Lebanese village, and the return of his remains will bring to a close a highly sensitive case for Israelis. Russia said it handed over the remains to Benjamin Netanyahu, the Israeli prime minister, who is visiting Putin five days before he is to seek a fifth term in office in a difficult election. Mr Netanyahu, 69, is running in the April 9 vote despite facing potential corruption charges and experts say he hopes the Moscow visit will increase his chances of success on election day. Benjamin Netanyahu is visiting Putin five days before he is to seek a fifth term in office in a difficult election Credit: MENAHEM KAHANA/AFP/Getty Images "Our military together with Syrian partners found the place of his burial," Mr Putin said of Baumel. "We are very happy that he will be able to receive the right military honours in his homeland." Mr Netanyahu said Mr Baumel would be laid to rest at a ceremony in Israel later Thursday. "Zachary's friends and family will take part," he said, adding that his family had been "very touched". "His father is no longer alive, unfortunately," he added. "His mother is around 100 years old. Zachary also has a sister." Neither Russia nor Israel have given details on how or where the remains were found. Mr Putin said only that Syria - with which Israel has technically been at war - participated in the operation.
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| Man arrested in reported sword attack over 'MAGA' hat spat Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:31 PM PDT ![Man arrested in reported sword attack over 'MAGA' hat spat]( "Man arrested in reported sword attack over 'MAGA' hat spat") SAN FRANCISCO (AP) — Officers arrested a man who slashed another man with a sword after the victim allegedly knocked his "Make America Great Again" hat from his head, San Francisco police said Thursday.
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| Libya Showdown Looms as Haftar Orders Advance on Tripoli Posted: 04 Apr 2019 10:28 AM PDT  "We hear your call, Tripoli," the commander told his self-styled Libyan National Army, according to recording of a speech he gave to troops. March forward." Haftar, whose stronghold is in Libya's east, urged fighters to show restraint and not fire at anyone who doesn't raise a weapon at them. "It's been clear for a long time that Haftar's ambition is to be leader of Libya," said Crispin Hawes, founder of the Idrisi Advisors consultancy in London.
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| Aloha! Hawaiian Airlines' debuts Boston to Honolulu flights as longest route between states Posted: 05 Apr 2019 09:32 AM PDT  The airline announced that its Honolulu-Boston flight made history as the country's longest interstate route.
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| American woman kidnapped in Uganda; $500K ransom demanded Posted: 04 Apr 2019 01:38 AM PDT  An American tourist and a local guide were ambushed and kidnapped by four armed men who demanded a $500,000 ransom, Ugandan police said.
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| Prince Harry and Meghan Markle Take $39,000 Babymoon Posted: 05 Apr 2019 03:25 AM PDT  CHRIS JACKSONAnyone who has ever employed a contractor will sympathize with the plight Prince Harry and Meghan Markle found themselves in as they waited desperately for their new home at Frogmore Cottage to be finished ahead of the birth of their baby. But overruns (caused in part by the couple changing their minds) kept pushing back their move-in date.Not everyone, however, would have been in a position to ameliorate the tension by whisking their wife off for three days to a luxury hotel costing $13,000 per night while the last bits of snagging were taken care of.However, that's what Harry did this week, according to a report in The Sun, booking a $39,000 babymoon at the five-star Heckfield Place hotel in Hampshire.The Sun says they spent their three nights at the hotel, largely tucked away in their suite, which boasts its own dining room and two private terraces, enjoying cozy fireside meals.A friend told The Sun: "Meghan is only a couple of weeks away from giving birth, so Harry really wanted to treat her."It is, of course, entirely possible they did not pay full price for the stay at the hotel, which is owned by U.S. billionaire Gerald Chan. (Kensington Palace declined to comment.)Harry and Meghan are now believed to have moved into Frogmore Cottage, increasing speculation that they may be planning to have their baby in Windsor rather than London.The house was previously divided up into apartments for royal staff and has been the subject of a multimillion-dollar conversion, paid for by British taxpayers, although Harry and Meghan will pay for their furnishings themselves. Read more at The Daily Beast.
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| Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez hit with FEC complaint for alleged 'subsidy scheme' Posted: 03 Apr 2019 06:14 PM PDT  Multiple FEC complaints have been filed against the freshman congresswoman; 'Outnumbered' co-host Melissa Francis explains.
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| Trump news – live: President attacks another dead Republican icon as Biden hits back over bizarre video tweet Posted: 05 Apr 2019 03:26 AM PDT  Donald Trump has attacked the late former first lady Barbara Bush in a newspaper interview a day after posting a satirical alt-right meme of ex-vice-president Joe Biden on Twitter."I see that you are on the job and presidential, as always," Mr Biden responded witheringly to the tweet, which sits pinned to the top of the president's Twitter profile. The video in question sends up Mr Biden's apology after he was accused of inappropriate conduct towards female campaign staff and was circulated by Donald Trump Jr earlier on Thursday.Mr Trump is due in Calexico, California, on Friday to inspect construction work on his US-Mexico wall after rowing back on his threat to close the border, the trip providing a timely change of focus for the president after thousands of protesters campaigned outside the White House and in New York's Times Square to demand the release of the Mueller report in full.Please allow a moment for our liveblog to load
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| Bankrupt California utility PG&E announces new CEO, board shakeup Posted: 04 Apr 2019 12:29 AM PDT  Troubled California utility PG&E on Tuesday named Bill Johnson as its new CEO, as it faces contentious bankruptcy proceedings and billions of dollars in potential liabilities over its role in a series of deadly wildfires. The largest utility in the most populous American state, Pacific Gas and Electric Company has been under intensifying scrutiny in the wake of the 2018 Camp Fire in northern California that left 86 people dead and destroyed some 18,000 buildings. PG&E could face massive liabilities if investigators find that its equipment was responsible for the fire.
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| Pompeo says confident of 'path forward' with Turkey over S-400 dispute Posted: 04 Apr 2019 03:15 PM PDT  The United States is continuing discussions with Turkey over its plans to buy a missile defense system from Russia, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Thursday, adding he was confident the two NATO allies could find a path forward. "There's great opportunities for the United States and Turkey to work closer together," Pompeo told a news conference at the end of a meeting of NATO foreign ministers.
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| Parents decry girl's death in suspected road rage shooting Posted: 05 Apr 2019 04:19 PM PDT  PHOENIX (AP) — The announcement Friday of an arrest in the fatal Phoenix road rage shooting of a 10-year-old girl in her family's driveway was of little comfort to her grieving parents.
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| Candidates edge toward discussing slavery reparations Posted: 04 Apr 2019 02:00 AM PDT  Reparations have become a litmus test for Democratic candidates looking to secure diverse, progressive voters. But the support for reparations among Americans is complicated.
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| 30+ Healthy Ways To Eat Eggs—And Keep Your Breakfast From Ever Getting Boring Posted: 05 Apr 2019 02:06 PM PDT |
| Boeing CEO accepts blame for two plane crashes, apologizes to families of victims: 'We own it' Posted: 05 Apr 2019 06:04 AM PDT  The chairman of Boeing acknowledged for the first time that its new maneuvering system was responsible for two recent plane crashes that killed almost 350 people and apologized to the families and friends of the victims.
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| Southwest Airlines mistakenly tells travelers they've earned a coveted companion pass Posted: 05 Apr 2019 08:09 AM PDT  Some Southwest Airlines frequent flyers received erroneous alerts that they earned a companion pass, which gives a companion free travel for a year.
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| AOC and the cast of 'Queer Eye' hung out on Capitol Hill Posted: 04 Apr 2019 10:40 AM PDT  Four members of the Queer Eye cast (we missed you, Karamo) were on Capitol Hill this week to promote the Equality Act. Of course, they still squeezed in some time to hang out with Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez.Photos of AOC and Jonathan Van Ness strolling breezily through the halls of Congress started circulating Thursday afternoon. The internet loved it, which is unsurprising. Come on: AOC + Queer Eye? JVN and AOC both wearing pink? It is a situation tailor-made for Twitter screaming.> View this post on Instagram> > Talking policy with @ocasio2018 equalityact> > A post shared by Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) on Apr 4, 2019 at 9:27am PDTSEE ALSO: The 'Queer Eye' guys answering rapid fire questions is hilariously chaoticNancy Pelosi joined the group shortly after, and everyone posed for a photo. The pic, which is extremely good, features a stunning array of pink and red apparel, a slightly uncomfortable looking Tan France (semi-related: you simply must watch the Queer Eye installment of Pitchfork's "Over/Under"), and Bobby's phone case, which says "BOBBY."> .@QueerEye: feel free to let us know when you want @RepAOC & me to fill in next. Fab5 pic.twitter.com/THjnPSCFcR> > -- Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) April 4, 2019"Feel free to let us know when you want [AOC] and me to fill in next," Pelosi captioned the pic. The crew later went outside to converse on the Speaker's balcony, according to a Congressional staffer. Is a mini-episode in the works?UPDATE: April 4, 2019, 2:19 p.m. ET: The tweets keep rolling in.> Thank you all for visiting me! You made my work day QueerEye https://t.co/dWNEMJUXh3> > -- Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (@AOC) April 4, 2019> We have the most diverse American congress ever, I'm lifted up in seeing that a United States that values Equality & protection for all is currently fighting for that. We're making it rain pantsuits & equality in 2020. pic.twitter.com/k7J2cCpXep> > -- Jonathan Van Ness (@jvn) April 4, 2019 WATCH: The cast of 'Queer Eye' gives us their take on millennial trends
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| With Mueller Hopes Gone, So Goes Progressive Unity Posted: 04 Apr 2019 03:30 AM PDT  The Democratic party has lots of radical new ideas, and lots of radical presidential candidates and politicos.But the common hatred of President Donald Trump has united otherwise quite disparate Democratic leaders such as House speaker Nancy Pelosi (D., Calif.); former vice president Joe Biden; Senators Kamala Harris (D., Calif), Cory Booker (D., N.J.), and Elizabeth Warren (D., Mass.); and Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D., N.Y.), Rashida Tlaib (D., Mich.), and Ilhan Omar (D., Minn.).These diverse progressive politicians all shared faith in Special Counsel Robert Mueller and his "dream team." They believed over the last two years that the Mueller investigation was slowly grinding down Trump. T-shirts were sold with the slogan God Protect Robert Mueller.The unifying progressive creed assumed that Mueller's team would eventually find Trump unequivocally guilty of "collusion" with Russia. That buzzword was the non-criminal euphemism for felonious conspiracy to rig an election.The hunt for collusion would end with the holy grail of Trump's impeachment and removal from office. In 2020, there would be an almost automatic progressive takeover of government.Periodic leaks from Mueller's team during the investigation's 22 months prompted giddy media anticipation that "the walls were closing in" on Trump. It always seemed that the "noose was tightening" around him and that yet another "bombshell" was about to go off.This anti-Trump echo chamber lessened the need for progressives to offer a comprehensive, coherent, and winning alternate agenda. Damning the sure-to-be-impeached Trump was unity enough. All progressives at least agreed on that.But as Mueller was supposedly about to indict Trump, a divisive, hard-left agenda was almost imperceptibly floated to the public: the Green New Deal, reparations for slavery, abortion redefined as permissible infanticide, open borders, packing the Supreme Court with liberal justices, the abolition of the Electoral College and ICE, free college tuition, the elimination of student debt, Medicare for all, a wealth tax, a 70 percent top marginal income tax rate, a 16-year-old voting age, voting rights for ex-felons, and on and on.It seemed as if today's radical proposal would become yesterday's sellout within 24 hours, as progressives awaited tomorrow's even more revolutionary idea.While progressives were celebrating the seemingly inevitable Mueller indictment of Trump, they were also increasingly at odds over many of these divisive and mostly unpopular new issues and over the self-created paradoxes of identity politics.When he was not declaring Trump guilty of treason, Robert Francis "Beto" O'Rourke, a lifelong beneficiary of wealth and influence, did his best to blast his own former white privilege.Socialist presidential candidate Bernie Sanders, when he was not predicating Trump's impeachment, talked in the abstract, as if an old white guy like himself in the concrete had no business running for president.Current front-runner Joe Biden, when he was not gloating over Trump's supposed guilt, tried hard to trash his own white male culture as the root of many of America's problems.How odd that three of the anti-white-male party's leading presidential contenders were none other than the white male trio of Biden, Bernie, and Beto.Now, Mueller has gone, his report having found no evidence of an election conspiracy. There is no longer a rallying cry of Trump-Russia collusion.In other words, an investigation that for two years had reconciled the irreconcilable no longer serves as a source of Democratic unity.We are going to see hard-left Democrats and socialists force their mostly unpopular agenda on politicians and candidates from their own party. And they are now putting their identity-politics money where their mouth is by openly discouraging candidates on the basis of their race and gender.With the end of the Mueller investigation, thousands of government documents, mostly unredacted, will be released. The result may be that the hunters of Trump soon become hunted by federal prosecutors. Sworn statements of Obama-administration officials in the Justice Department, CIA, FBI, and other bureaucracies will contradict newly released documents.To escape punishment, all of these players in the Russian collusion delusion may now begin to turn on one another after being so united in going after Donald Trump.The media sensationalism and optics will play out in reverse as the "noose tightens" and "the walls close in" on people such as former CIA director John Brennan, former director of National Intelligence James Clapper, former FBI director James Comey, and former FBI deputy director Andrew McCabe.There will also be more infighting over the collective embarrassment of the Russian collusion hoax.A few shamed progressive politicians and reporters will grow quiet and acknowledge their overreach. But many will double down and weirdly insist that there really was Russian collusion and that the Steele dossier was true. Most will remain unashamed and simply move on to the next supposed Trump scandal.Progressives in unison boarded the Mueller express to nowhere. As they now jump off the train wreck, the fighting won't be pretty.© 2019 Tribune Content Agency, LLC
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| Body found in search for missing New York City mother of 3 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 08:02 AM PDT  A body was found early Thursday morning as police searched for a missing mother of three on Staten Island.
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| UN council to meet on Libya as Haftar's forces advance Posted: 04 Apr 2019 02:00 PM PDT  The UN Security Council will meet behind closed doors on Friday to discuss the situation in Libya after the leader of eastern forces in the war-scarred north African country ordered his troops to advance on Tripoli. Britain requested the urgent meeting on Thursday, diplomats said, following the order from Khalifa Haftar, a key player opposed to the government in the capital. The spike in tensions came as Secretary-General Antonio Guterres was making his first visit as UN chief to Libya ahead of a planned conference later this month aimed at charting a course toward elections.
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| 14-year-old says he is Illinois boy who went missing in 2011 Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:13 AM PDT  In 2011, 6-year-old Timmothy Pitzen's mother picked him up at school in Illinois, took him to the zoo and a water park, and then killed herself at a hotel, leaving a note in which she said her son was fine but that no one would ever find him.
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| EU's Tusk proposes to offer UK 12-month 'flexible' extension to Brexit date: BBC Posted: 04 Apr 2019 10:46 PM PDT  European Council President Donald Tusk is proposing to make an offer of a 12-month "flexible" extension to the UK's Brexit date, the BBC reported on Friday, citing a senior European Union source. The plan would let UK leave sooner if the British parliament ratifies a deal but will need to be agreed by EU leaders next week at a summit, the BBC said. After her EU withdrawal deal was rejected three times by lawmakers, British Prime Minister Theresa May invited opposition Labour leader Jeremy Corbyn for talks in parliament to try to plot a way out of the crisis.
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| Tucker Carlson: ‘How Did We Wind Up With a Country in Which Feminists Do Science?’ Posted: 04 Apr 2019 07:20 PM PDT  Chip Somodevilla/GettyDays after facing widespread ridicule and criticism for saying primetime cable news competitor Chris Hayes is "what every man would be" if feminists had absolute power, Fox News host Tucker Carlson wondered Thursday how America wound up being a country where "feminists do science."During Thursday night's broadcast of Tucker Carlson Tonight, the conservative primetime star shared a clip—full of scary music and eerie effects—of Democratic politicians warning about the dangers of climate change, mockingly noting that it's "so bad they're running out of adjectives."Carlson then highlighted a recent study that asks whether "toxic masculinity" is a driver behind climate change by arguing that "when men's gender identity was threatened, they tried to reassert their masculinity through environmentally damaging choices." The report added that once this "unconscious bias is revealed, it has the potential to help society shift our increasingly precarious relationship with the environment for the better."Or, the way Carlson sees it, "if we want to save the environment we have to suppress men."The Fox News host turned not to a scientist or climate-change expert to dissect the study's conclusions, but conservative author and frequent guest Mark Steyn, who quipped that his insecurities about his masculinity "are causing rising sea levels in the Maldives" and that he's "kind of on board" with the study's thesis."How did we wind up with a country in which feminists do science?" Carlson asked, apparently not the least bit fazed by the current ad boycott he is facing. "I mean, isn't that sort of bound to get a study like this, right?"Steyn replied that it's "almost impossible" to tell if the study is legitimate or an "ingenious parody." This caused him to go on a tangent about one of the study's experiments, which he claimed consisted of "pantywaist" Walmart gift cards causing men to buy "very macho masculine things that melt the polar ice caps." "This is the kind of social science that the higher-education institutions of America are spending a fortune investigating," Steyn sneered.After Carlson said he thought "climate science was all about ice core samples" and not Walmart gift cards, Steyn scornfully responded that "climate science is a state of mind" and that the "big bucks" are in surveys where you "decide what's heating up the planet is men." Eventually, Steyn concluded by ranting about Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) "flatulent" cows, claiming they will team up with a "plague of locusts" to wipe out "toxic masculine men" and save the planet."I wish there was a Latin term for government by unhappy crazy people because that's where we are," Carlson concluded.Read more at The Daily Beast.
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| Boeing faces liabilities as CEO Dennis Muilenburg acknowledges 'apparent' 737 Max problem Posted: 05 Apr 2019 03:20 PM PDT Boeing CEO's acknowledgment that a new maneuvering system contributed to two fatal 737 Max crashes could leave company exposed to financial liability.
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| Royal Caribbean cancels 3 sail dates for Oasis of the Seas after cruise ship-crane accident Posted: 04 Apr 2019 05:24 AM PDT ![Royal Caribbean cancels 3 sail dates for Oasis of the Seas after cruise ship-crane accident]( "Royal Caribbean cancels 3 sail dates for Oasis of the Seas after cruise ship-crane accident") Royal Caribbean's Oasis of the Seas' sail dates for April 7, 14, and 21 have been canceled, the cruise ship giant told customers via Twitter.
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| The 2019 Audi e-tron Has an EPA-Rated Electric Range of 204 Miles Posted: 04 Apr 2019 10:00 AM PDT  Audi's first fully electric car is finally here, and U.S. deliveries will start in May.
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| AG William Barr and Congress must negotiate in good faith over Mueller report Posted: 04 Apr 2019 04:30 AM PDT  House Judiciary Committee voted to authorize a subpoena for the Mueller report. We hope it doesn't come to that: Our view
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| Indiana school turns leftover food into meals for needy children Posted: 04 Apr 2019 09:00 AM PDT  An Indiana elementary school is helping needy students in a big way by workingwith a local food-rescue nonprofit organization to turn leftover cafeteriafood into take-home meals
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