Wednesday, November 27, 2019

The Latest: Airports hit in stormy California

The Latest: Airports hit in stormy CaliforniaStormy weather and a power outage have affected two Northern California airports as a storm hits the region. KPIX-TV says the Federal Aviation Administration imposed a ground delay at San Francisco International Airport Tuesday because of the weather, cutting the number of arrivals in half. The airport reported several hundred delayed flights and about two dozen cancellations.




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China's H-20 Stealth Bomber Could Be the U.S. Military's Worst Nightmare

China's H-20 Stealth Bomber Could Be the U.S. Military's Worst NightmareBe on notice.




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In a huge blow to Trump, DOJ watchdog found no evidence to support the claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaign

In a huge blow to Trump, DOJ watchdog found no evidence to support the claim that the FBI spied on his 2016 campaignTrump has repeatedly baselessly alleged that the FBI spied on his campaign and that President Barack Obama had intelligence officials tap his phones.




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China says developed countries lack 'political will' on climate goals

China says developed countries lack 'political will' on climate goalsBeijing on Wednesday accused developed countries including the US of doing too little to curb global warming, ahead of a UN summit discussing controversial issues including climate compensation. China is the world's second-largest economy and the biggest emitter of carbon dioxide, but has repeatedly argued that developed nations should lead on tackling international climate obligations. "Developed countries' insufficient political will to provide support" is the "biggest problem" currently facing international climate efforts, said Zhao Yingmin, vice-minister of ecology and environment, at a press conference Wednesday.




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47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to homosexuality charge

47 Nigerian men plead not guilty to homosexuality chargeForty-seven Nigerian men pleaded innocent on Wednesday to a charge of public displays of affection with members of the same sex, an offence that carries a 10-year jail term. Homosexuality is outlawed in many socially conservative African societies where some religious groups brand it a corrupting Western import. The Nigerian men, who appeared at a court in the commercial capital Lagos, were among 57 arrested in a police raid on a hotel in the impoverished Egbeda district of the city in 2018.




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Legal settlement will keep Confederate statue off UNC campus

Legal settlement will keep Confederate statue off UNC campusThe University of North Carolina announced Wednesday that a torn-down Confederate monument won’t return to campus under a legal agreement that hands over the “Silent Sam” statue to a group of Confederate descendants. The University of North Carolina System said in a news release that a judge approved a settlement giving possession of the monument to the Sons of Confederate Veterans, who will keep the statue outside the 14 counties where there are university system campuses. The announcement comes after the university and statewide Board of Governors spent more than a year grappling with what to do with the prominent but divisive monument, a challenging period during which the Chapel Hill chancellor resigned and the campus police chief who oversaw the response to statue’s toppling retired.




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Buttigieg claims 2nd while Warren sinks in new 2020 poll

Buttigieg claims 2nd while Warren sinks in new 2020 pollPete Buttigieg rocketed into second place in the Democratic presidential nomination race, polling showed Tuesday, with support for progressive ex-frontrunner Elizabeth Warren sliding behind.




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WeChat users in the US say the app is censoring their messages about Hong Kong

WeChat users in the US say the app is censoring their messages about Hong KongWeChat is a ubiquitous app in China, so for Chinese Americans with family there it is a major blow to be kicked off the app.




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Pompeo says documents confirm China committing 'very significant' Xinjiang abuses

Pompeo says documents confirm China committing 'very significant' Xinjiang abusesRecently leaked documents confirm China is committing "very significant" human rights abuses against Uighur Muslims and other minority groups in mass detention, U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo said on Tuesday. An international group of journalists released classified Chinese government documents on Sunday that described repressive inner workings of detention camps in China's troubled western region of Xinjiang.




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Asthma Control Is Critical During Pregnancy


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A Chicago Student Ignored a Man's Late-Night Catcalls. Now He's Charged With Her Murder

A Chicago Student Ignored a Man's Late-Night Catcalls. Now He's Charged With Her MurderProsecutors said the man was 'angry that he was being ignored'




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An Air Canada Boeing 787 flying across the Atlantic was forced to turn back after its windshield cracked

An Air Canada Boeing 787 flying across the Atlantic was forced to turn back after its windshield crackedAir Canada Flight 857 was due to fly from London to Toronto but instead landed in Ireland after the crack in the 787-8 windshield was noticed.




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U.S. rejects proposal for spy swap of ex-Marine held in Russia

U.S. rejects proposal for spy swap of ex-Marine held in RussiaThe United States rejected on Wednesday a suggestion it seek a prisoner swap involving a former U.S. Marine jailed in Russia for nearly a year over spying allegations, and called for his immediate release. Paul Whelan, who holds U.S., British, Canadian and Irish passports, was detained by agents from Russia's Federal Security Service in a Moscow hotel room on Dec. 28 last year. After a U.S. diplomat visited him in jail on Wednesday, the U.S. embassy complained about Whelan's declining health and called Russia's treatment of him "shameful", saying Moscow had refused to allow the diplomat to bring him Thanksgiving dinner.




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Leaked Chinese documents give unprecedented insight into how Muslim detention centers in Xinjiang control detainees' every move

Leaked Chinese documents give unprecedented insight into how Muslim detention centers in Xinjiang control detainees' every moveUighur activities, including indoctrination classes, mealtimes, family visits, medical treatments, and even bathroom breaks are "strictly managed."




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Jailed French serial child killer charged over 2003 case

Jailed French serial child killer charged over 2003 caseA convicted French serial killer has been charged with the abduction and murder of a nine-year-old girl who disappeared in 2003, in the latest twist in a case that has gripped France. Michel Fourniret, jailed for life in May 2008 for the murder of seven girls and young women, has been charged over the disappearance of Estelle Mouzin from a village east of Paris, a legal source said, after his wife came forward to contradict his alibi. Estelle Mouzin disappeared in Guermantes, 30 kilometres (18 miles) east of Paris, while walking home from her school.




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Fox News guest: 'Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here'

Fox News guest: 'Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here'It's been a hectic few hours for Fox News' Tucker Carlson.First, Carlson on Monday evening said he was rooting for Russia in its conflict with Ukraine before walking it back. Then a Fox News guest, Democratic National Committee Vice Chair Michael Blake, was asked Tuesday by anchor Bill Hemmer to respond to Carlson's theory that former First Lady Michelle Obama might be the Democratic presidential nominee in 2020. Blake, though, didn't seem too interested in answering that question (for what it's worth, he did briefly say an Obama run is "not going to happen.")Instead, Blake wanted to figure out "why the hell" Carlson was still employed by the network, especially in light of Carlson calling white supremacy a hoax. Hemmer tried to steer Blake back toward the Obama conversation, but not before his guest repeated his assertion that Carlson should be out of a job. > Micheal Blake stuns Fox News anchor: "Why the hell does Tucker Carlson still have a job here?" https://t.co/XRVoPsI8GF pic.twitter.com/h3KTT6QPu1> > -- Media Matters (@mmfa) November 26, 2019More stories from theweek.com Trump, who is technically obese, tweets portrait of himself as muscular Rocky Balboa Impeachment is failing. Time for Plan B. Gordon Sondland accused of sexual misconduct by 3 women




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Fire, drought, heatwaves: Australia prepares for tough summer

Australia's fire and drought-ravaged east will suffer continued hot and dry conditions this summer, increasing the chances of severe weather events, the country's weather bureau said on Thursday.


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Trump claims he'd 'love' for top aides to testify, but won't allow it

Trump claims he'd 'love' for top aides to testify, but won't allow it“I would love to have Mike Pompeo, Rick Perry, Mick Mulvaney and many others testify,” the president tweeted after a federal judge ordered former White House counsel Don McGahn to appear before Congress. The Justice Department is appealing the ruling.




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'Sleepwalking toward climate catastrophe:' World must slash emissions immediately, UN report says

'Sleepwalking toward climate catastrophe:' World must slash emissions immediately, UN report saysThe world's nations must make steep cuts to greenhouse gas emissions immediately or risk missing the targets they’ve agreed on, a U.N. report says.




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Iran supreme leader says 'very dangerous' plot foiled

Iran supreme leader says 'very dangerous' plot foiledIran's supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei on Wednesday said his sanctions-hit country had foiled a "very dangerous" plot after violent demonstrations triggered by a fuel price hike. New York-based Human Rights Watch, meanwhile, accused Tehran of "deliberately covering up" more than 100 deaths and thousands of arrests during the crackdown.




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Tears and prayers as Vietnam village mourns cousins killed in UK truck tragedy

Tears and prayers as Vietnam village mourns cousins killed in UK truck tragedyRelatives have waited weeks for their bodies to come home, after they were discovered lifeless in a refrigerated container in Essex, east of London, last month. Hoang Van Tiep, 18, and his 33-year-old cousin Nguyen Van Hung were among 39 people found in the truck, a tragedy that has paralysed communities with grief across central Vietnam, where most of the victims came from. In a tucked-away corner of Dien Chau district in central Nghe An province, hundreds of relatives, friends and villagers gathered to greet the bodies of the two cousins.




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Epstein Suicide: Guards Say They're Scapegoats for a Broken System

Epstein Suicide: Guards Say They're Scapegoats for a Broken SystemNEW YORK -- Two jail guards who were on duty when Jeffrey Epstein killed himself browsed the internet and napped during the night before his body was found, instead of checking on him every half-hour as they were required to do, prosecutors have said. The guards then lied, prosecutors said, on official logs, indicating that they had made the rounds when they had not.Attorney General William Barr said last week that Epstein's death resulted from "a perfect storm of screw-ups."But lawyers for the guards, who have been criminally charged, suggested in court Monday that their clients were being made into scapegoats for larger problems in the federal prison system that contributed to Epstein's death.The Manhattan jail where Epstein hanged himself has long been plagued by staff shortages and the two guards, Michael Thomas and Tova Noel, had already done several tours of overtime that week.In addition, Epstein was left alone without a cellmate that night and morning, even though he had tried to take his own life about three weeks earlier."Unfortunately, the decisions that led to the death of Mr. Epstein were not only because of what my client did or did not do," Montell Figgins, the lawyer for Thomas, said. "It was because of a system that failed completely.""Where are the supervisors?" Figgins added. "Where are the people who make the policy decisions? Why didn't Mr. Epstein have a cellmate at the time that this happened?"Figgins made his remarks outside U.S. District Court in Manhattan after a hearing at which Judge Analisa Torres set a trial date of April 20 for Thomas and Noel, who face charges that include making false records and conspiracy to defraud the United States. Both have pleaded not guilty.Noel's lawyer, Jason E. Foy, said that he had not seen the evidence against his client, but he vowed to investigate her case vigorously. He said he believed there were "outside circumstances that are driving this prosecution."Foy, who also spoke after the hearing, said the charges did not "sound like your regular false-document case," an apparent reference to the unusual circumstances and high-profile nature of Epstein's death.The U.S. attorney's office in Manhattan and the Bureau of Prisons declined to comment on the lawyers' assertions.The indictment charging the two guards highlighted lapses in the operation of a high-security unit at the Metropolitan Correctional Center in New York, where Epstein, a financier, was awaiting trial on sex trafficking charges when he died.The indictment also offered the first official narrative of the events preceding his death. It said that security cameras did not show anyone entering the cell block where Epstein was housed, suggesting that despite the conjecture and conspiracy theories swirling around Epstein and his connections to powerful people, his death was a suicide as New York City's chief medical examiner ruled.At the hearing Monday, a prosecutor, Rebekah A. Donaleski, told Torres that the discovery materials the government would provide to defense lawyers included hundreds of hours of video recordings from inside the jail.Although Donaleski did not elaborate on the recordings' contents, the indictment said that video obtained from the jail's internal video surveillance system confirmed that no one visited the tier where Epstein was being held after about 10:30 p.m. on Aug. 9."This was the last time anyone, including any correctional officer, walked up to, let alone entered, the only entrance to the tier in which Epstein was housed until approximately 6:30 a.m. on Aug. 10," when his body was found, the indictment said.The defense lawyers said in court that they wanted prosecutors to provide them with additional evidence that might be used at trial. Figgins cited an internal investigation by the Justice Department inspector general's office into the circumstances surrounding Epstein's death. The results of that inquiry will not be made public, officials have said.Outside the courthouse, Figgins said that there had been an unfair "rush to judgment" in the case and that the two guards were being made to pay for the problems of an entire system."Does anyone think that throughout the United States that these are the only two guards that may have taken a nap overnight on their shift?" he said. "I highly doubt it."The attention that Epstein's suicide has brought to prison conditions, inmate supervision and mental health issues around the country was reinforced Sunday with a letter published in The New York Times by Richard M. Berman, the federal judge in Manhattan who presided in Epstein's criminal case before his suicide.Berman wrote that the indictment of the two guards was not the "full accounting" to which Epstein's alleged victims, the public and his family were entitled."We all agree that it is unthinkable that any detainee, let alone a high-profile detainee like Mr. Epstein, would die unnoticed at the Metropolitan Correctional Center," the judge wrote.He said it would be "a tragic and costly missed opportunity" for the Bureau of Prisons and the attorney general "to fail to undertake -- and to make public -- an in-depth evaluation of prison conditions (not only at the MCC) and to carry out appropriate reforms."This article originally appeared in The New York Times.(C) 2019 The New York Times Company




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US weather forecast: Powerful storms to bring heavy snow and high winds, causing Thanksgiving travel chaos

US weather forecast: Powerful storms to bring heavy snow and high winds, causing Thanksgiving travel chaosMillions of Americans are bracing for two "powerful" storms expected to dump heavy blankets of snow and force road closures and flight delays as families prepare for a busy week of travel during the Thanksgiving holiday.A snowy weather system could linger through the rest of the week and into the weekend as it moves east, potentially bringing snow to New England and delivering a wintry coast-to-coast blow to the holiday weekend.




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Guardian identified for small child found wandering Sunday morning by Fort Myers police

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