| US dispatches aircraft carrier over unspecified Iran threats Posted: 06 May 2019 07:08 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. is dispatching an aircraft carrier and other military resources to the Middle East following "clear indications" that Iran and its proxy forces were preparing to possibly attack U.S. forces in the region, a defense official told The Associated Press.
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| Guns outnumber guests at bombed Sri Lanka hotel Posted: 05 May 2019 08:26 PM PDT  At the Cinnamon Grand Colombo, one of six Sri Lankan targets hit by suicide bombers on Easter Sunday, the silence that reigns is not just the usual hush of a plush hotel. Around 9:10 am that day, Sri Lankan Inshaf Ibrahim, who had checked into the Cinnamon the day before, went to the breakfast buffet in the hotel's Taprobane restaurant. The bomber's brother Ilham Ibrahim died while attacking the Shangri-La hotel, also in Colombo.
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| Palestinians step up rocket attacks as Israel strikes Gaza Posted: 05 May 2019 06:01 PM PDT  Israeli forces struck dozens of targets throughout Gaza, including militant sites that the military said were concealed in homes or residential areas.
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| White House Directs McGahn Not to Turn Over Documents to House Posted: 07 May 2019 10:15 AM PDT  The White House on Tuesday directed former White House counsel Don McGahn to ignore a congressional subpoena seeking documents related to Special Counsel Robert Mueller's final report."The White House provided these records to Mr. McGahn in connection with its cooperation with the special counsel's investigation and with the clear understanding that the records remain subject to the control of the White House for all purposes," White House Counsel Pat Cipollone wrote to Representative Jerry Nadler (D., N.Y.), the chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. "The White House records remain legally protected from disclosure under longstanding constitutional principles, because they implicate significant executive branch confidentiality interests and executive privilege."Nadler subpoenaed McGahn for the documents and his public testimony last month, days after the redacted version of the Mueller report was released. The deadline for McGahn to turn over the requested documents was 10 a.m. Tuesday, and the deadline for him to testify is May 21.McGahn's claim, cited in the Mueller report, that President Trump directed him to have the Justice Department fire the special counsel, made headlines when the report was released, and Democrats believe his testimony could be critical to their investigations of the president."Mr. McGahn is a critical witness to many of the alleged instances of obstruction of justice and other misconduct described in the Mueller report," Nadler said in a statement when he issued the subpoena. "His testimony will help shed further light on the President's attacks on the rule of law, and his attempts to cover up those actions by lying to the American people and requesting others do the same."Mick Mulvaney, the acting White House chief of staff, ordered McGahn not to release the documents to lawmakers, Cipollone wrote in his letter to Nadler.The letter stops short of invoking executive privilege to block lawmakers from receiving the White House documents and McGahn's testimony, but the legality of that move should the administration try to take it is in question. Some legal analysts have argued that the White House lost its ability to claim privilege when it allowed McGahn to sit for an interview with Mueller, who published his answers publicly."We're fighting all the subpoenas," Trump said last month after the Mueller report found no evidence of the Trump campaign colluding with the Kremlin but declined to reach a conclusion on whether the president attempted to obstruct the investigation.
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| ‘The View’ Confronts Crenshaw for Defending Trump on Charlottesville: ‘Why Do You Apologize for Him?!’ Posted: 06 May 2019 10:54 AM PDT  Appearing on The View on Monday, Rep. Dan Crenshaw (R-TX) was challenged by hosts Joy Behar and Sunny Hostin when he claimed that President Trump never referred to white nationalists or neo-Nazis as "very fine people" during his response to the deadly 2017 Charlottesville rally.Towards the end of his multi-segment Monday morning interview, the Texas Republican was asked about his vocal criticism of Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN). Crenshaw, in case you forgot, helped spark conservative outrage against Omar last month, resulting in increased death threats against her when he attacked her for out-of-context remarks about 9/11.Meghan McCain asked Crenshaw why he felt Democrats were "reluctant to call [Omar] out," prompting the GOP congressman to reply that it was because "we're playing a team sport today.""We just had a long discussion about how Republicans feel about Trump," Crenshaw added. "I think you're seeing the same issues play out on the Democrat side with somebody on their own team and they're not sure how to handle it even though might, behind closed doors, disagree with what she's saying."Co-host Joy Behar then jumped in, noting that Omar is a new congresswoman before contrasting conservatives' reaction to her with the president's Charlottesville response."On the right, what we have is the President of the United States in Charlottesville saying there are good people on both sides and people are yelling 'Jews will not replace us.' There are not good people on both sides," she exclaimed.Crenshaw interrupted, claiming that "in the same sentence" the president said that he was "definitely not referring to white nationalists." (This, however, is not entirely true, as the president insisted there were "very fine people" on the side of a rally organized entirely by white supremacists and neo-Nazis.) "Why do you apologize for him?!" Behar shot back, causing Crenshaw to double down on his defense, telling her she needed to "read what he actually said."Hostin, meanwhile, claimed that Trump didn't admonish white supremacists in the same sentence but rather in a fumbling later statement. As they continued to argue about whether or not Trump condemned white nationalists, McCain rallied to Crenshaw's defense, saying she didn't "think it matters" because "bigotry and any kind of statements like these should be called out."As for Crenshaw's assertion that Trump said he wasn't referring to white nationalists during his Aug. 15, 2017 remarks, this really comes down to hair-splitting and not looking at the comments in a larger context."Excuse me, they didn't put themselves down as neo-Nazis, and you had some very bad people in that group," Trump said at the time. "But you also had people that were very fine people on both sides."Read more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast here
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| Presidential hopeful Sen. Cory Booker (D-NJ) wants national gun owner registry Posted: 06 May 2019 10:17 AM PDT  Senator Cory Booker put forth a national licensing proposal calling for all gun owners to obtain federal firearms licenses.
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| Florida's Gillum calls bill to limit voting by ex-convicts a 'poll tax' Posted: 06 May 2019 02:07 PM PDT  Andrew Gillum, the Tallahassee mayor who last November lost a close race to become Florida's governor, sharply criticized new restrictions placed on voting by people with felony convictions at a congressional hearing on Monday. "The unfortunate thing" about Florida, Gillum said, was that "we almost look directly at how we disenfranchise as many people as we possibly can," citing alleged attempts to close polling sites and dismiss absentee ballots. Gillum made his comments at a Monday hearing of the Committee on House Administration devoted to voting rights in Florida.
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| Anadarko calls Occidental takeover offer 'superior' to Chevron's Posted: 06 May 2019 07:39 PM PDT  US oil group Anadarko said Monday that Occidental Petroleum's takeover bid is "superior" to Chevron's, amid a fierce battle over the company's assets in the shale-rich Permian Basin in Texas. After initially siding with Chevron, Anadarko reopened talks when Occidental raised its share price. Last week, Occidental also upped its cash offer to $38 billion.
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| Forty-one reported killed after Russian passenger plane crash-lands in Moscow Posted: 05 May 2019 06:44 PM PDT  Television footage showed the Sukhoi Superjet 100 crash bouncing along the tarmac at Moscow's Sheremetyevo airport before the rear part of the plane suddenly burst into flames. Many passengers on board SU 1492 then escaped via the plane's emergency slides that inflated after the hard landing. The plane, which had been flying from Moscow to the northern Russian city of Murmansk, had been carrying 73 passengers and five crew members, Russia's aviation watchdog said.
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| Gaza quiet after Israel, Hamas agree to cease-fire Posted: 06 May 2019 11:06 AM PDT  JERUSALEM (AP) — The Israeli military lifted protective restrictions on residents in the south on Monday, while Gaza's ruling Hamas militant group reported a cease-fire deal had been reached to end the deadliest fighting between the two sides since a 2014 war.
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| William Barr: Democrats to launch contempt proceedings against attorney general Posted: 06 May 2019 07:05 AM PDT  The House Judiciary Committee has announced plans to vote Wednesday on whether to hold Attorney General William Barr in contempt. Donald Trump's appointee to lead the Department of Justice has stirred controversy in recent weeks over his handling of Special Counsel Robert Mueller's report into Russian interference in the 2016 election. Democrats accused him of lying before Congress about whether he knew members of the special counsel's team were "frustrated" by his public statements after the completion of the report, which sought to clear the president of wrongdoing despite numerous examples of possible obstruction of justice throughout the probe. Mr Barr failed to appear for a second day of testimony on Capitol Hill last week after he was grilled Wednesday, and reportedly failed to meet a Monday deadline to provide the House Judiciary Committee a full, unredacted copy of the report and underlying evidence — the second such deadline he did not meet. "The Attorney General's failure to comply with our subpoena, after extensive accommodation efforts, leaves us no choice but to initiate contempt proceedings in order to enforce the subpoena and access the full, unredacted report," House Judiciary Chairman Jerrold Nadler said in a statement. More follows…
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| U.S. House Committees in Talks With Trumps About Bank Subpoenas Posted: 07 May 2019 02:39 PM PDT  The Committee on Financial Services and the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence asked a judge in New York for an additional 24 hours to respond to the Trumps' request. The committees told U.S. District Judge Edgardo Ramos that the Trumps consent to the extension, making it likely that it will be granted.
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| Security high in restive Kashmir as India votes again Posted: 06 May 2019 01:46 AM PDT  India held the next stage of its marathon election on Monday, with 90 million people eligible to vote in key seats for Prime Minister Narendra Modi's party and security heavy in restive Kashmir. The world's biggest poll has been plagued by violence, with militants throwing a grenade at a voting booth Monday and shooting dead a candidate in south Kashmir over the weekend. At the 2014 election, Modi's Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) won 39 of the 51 constituencies up for grabs on Monday, as he swept to power and the opposition Congress party suffered its worst ever result.
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| Hero student who tackled North Carolina gunman remembered as 'selfless' Posted: 05 May 2019 07:52 PM PDT ![Hero student who tackled North Carolina gunman remembered as 'selfless']( "Hero student who tackled North Carolina gunman remembered as 'selfless'") Riley Howell, 21, was one of two people killed on Tuesday at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte when a former student opened fire inside a classroom of nearly 50 students. Four other students were injured. Howell, a member of the university's Reserve Officer Training Corps (ROTC), was given full military honors at the memorial.
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| The Met Museum Pulls Out All the Stops in Its Quest for Camp Posted: 06 May 2019 01:16 PM PDT  Go inside this year's Met Costume Institute exhibition and gala with head curator Andrew Bolton and acclaimed theatrical designer Jan Versweyveld
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| Families of Lion Air crash victims criticise Boeing over alert issue Posted: 06 May 2019 02:18 AM PDT  Families of victims in the Indonesia Lion Air crash hit out at Boeing Monday over its admission that engineers had identified a safety system glitch well before the fatal accident, in the latest knock to the plane maker's reputation. Boeing said Sunday engineers had found the safety alert issue on its 737 MAX aircraft in 2017, a year before the deadly crash in Indonesia that killed 189 people. According to Boeing, a supposedly standard piece of equipment that tells pilot about disagreements between angle of attack (AOA) indicators -- which measure the plane's angle vis-a-vis oncoming air to warn of impending stalls -- did not activate unless an additional optional indicator was purchased by airlines.
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| Iran's Zarif says Tehran not pulling out of nuclear deal: state media Posted: 07 May 2019 03:02 PM PDT  Iran will reduce some "voluntary" commitments within its nuclear deal with world powers as a response to members' inability to resist U.S. pressure, but will not withdraw from it, state media on Wednesday quoted Foreign Minister Mohammad Javad Zarif as saying. Iran's state media said earlier Tehran would write to the countries still signed up to the deal - U.S. allies Britain, France and Germany as well as Russia and China - on Wednesday to give them details about plans to "diminish its commitments" under the deal. "Iran's future actions will be fully within the (nuclear deal), from which the Islamic Republic will not withdraw," Zarif said, according to state media.
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| 6 facts about bonds that you need to understand now Posted: 06 May 2019 06:43 AM PDT ![6 facts about bonds that you need to understand now]( "6 facts about bonds that you need to understand now") Conventional wisdom says bonds zig when stocks zag, smoothing out bumpy periods for investors who own both. Yet last year, that didn't happen.
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| US lifts sanctions on Venezuelan general who joined uprising against Maduro Posted: 07 May 2019 03:14 PM PDT  Mike Pence said Manuel Cristopher Figuera was being removed from list 'in recognition of his actions in support of democracy' People attend a candlelight vigil held for victims of recent violence in Caracas on 5 May. Photograph: STRINGER/Reuters The United States has sought to pile further pressure on Nicolás Maduro's crisis-hit administration by announcing it has lifted sanctions on the Venezuelan spy chief who joined last week's abortive rebellion in Caracas. Speaking in Washington, the US vice-president Mike Pence said Gen Manuel Cristopher Figuera – who fled Venezuela after backing the unsuccessful 30 April uprising – was being removed from a sanctions list "in recognition of his recent actions in support of democracy and the rule of law". "We hope the action that our nation is taking today will encourage others to follow the example of General Cristopher Figuera and members of the military who have also stepped forward and taken a stand for … libertad," Pence said. The US treasury department indicated the move was designed to influence Venezuelan officials "who take concrete and meaningful actions to restore democratic order". The move is perhaps the clearest sign yet that Washington believes there may still be life in opposition leader Juan Guaidó's bid to spark a mutiny against Maduro. Figuera was the only major figure to back Guaidó when he tried to launch an insurrection outside an airforce base in Caracas last Tuesday. Reports suggest that other top members of Maduro's administration may have been involved in the "Operation Freedom" plot – but then failed to follow through for reasons that remain murky. They include Venezuela's defense minister, Vladimir Padrino López, who was sanctioned by the US last year, and the head of its supreme court, Maikel Moreno, who was sanctioned in 2017. Pence also tried to turn up the heat on the supreme court's 25 judges, warning they would be held "accountable for their actions" if they continued to support what he called "the single greatest disrupter of peace and prosperity in the western hemisphere". "Nicolás Maduro is a dictator … and Nicolás Maduro must go," Pence said. Maduro loyalists have dismissed the unsuccessful revolt as a botched US-backed coup attempt. "The 30th April … was a demonstration that our armed forces are Bolivarian, revolutionary and nationalist," Pedro Carreño, a top member of Maduro's Socialist party, told the Guardian. "It was a demonstration that the Venezuelan right has no plan for our country beyond handing it over US oil corporations." "If the US wants to launch a military action, then we are ready for anything," Carreño added. Additional reporting by Patricia Torres
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| Chinese stock markets tumble after Trump threatens new tariffs Posted: 06 May 2019 03:19 AM PDT  Chinese stock markets tumbled on Monday after Donald Trump threatened China with increased tariffs on $200bn (£152bn) of goods.The president's surprise outburst risks derailing talks aimed at resolving the trade war between the world's two biggest economies.A Chinese delegation is scheduled to resume talks in Washington on Wednesday but US media reported they have considered cancelling the meeting.Hong Kong's Hang Seng index dropped 3.1 per cent following Mr Trump's tweet, while the Shanghai Composite fell by nearly six per cent.Chinese government officials did not immediately respond to requests for comment.Mr Trump wrote on Twitter that he would increase tariffs on $200bn of goods from 10 per cent to 25 per cent on Friday and announced tariffs at 25 per cent on $325bn of additional goods.Government officials in Beijing have previously told the US they would not negotiate under pressure.Jake Parker, vice president of the US-China Business Council, said Mr Trump's threat makes the talks "very difficult politically" for President Xi Jinping's government, as the Chinese public may view an agreement by the Friday deadline as a "capitulation".Although Mr Trump has twice pushed back deadlines for raising the tariffs – in January and March – he said he had lost patience with the negotiations on Sunday."The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China. The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!" he said.Mr Trump has portrayed his tariffs as beneficial for the US economy and claimed previous administrations have let China get away with abusive trade practices and take advantage of a lopsided economic relationship.However, economists have found that the burden of the tariffs falls on US consumers and businesses who buy imported products.A March study by the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, Columbia University, and Princeton University found that by the end of last year, US consumers and businesses were paying $3bn a month in higher taxes and absorbing $1.4bn a month in lost efficiency.Philip Levy, who was an economist in President George W Bush's administration, said the talks are too complicated for Mr Trump's high-pressure negotiating style."The president treats this like we're haggling over the price of a used car," he said.The US-China trade war has also raised worries about global economic growth, with the International Monetary Fund, World Bank and others downgrading their forecasts for the world economy.Forecasts have cited the trade war as a factor for creating uncertainty and reducing world trade.That uncertainty is not helped by Mr Trump's latest outburst, which came as an unexpected development for the Chinese government."This is a big surprise given the increasingly positive messages from the various US officials involved in the trade talks in recent weeks," said Tao Wang and Ning Zhang of UBS in a commentary."Certainly the risk of an all-out US-China trade war has increased significantly."Additional reporting by agencies
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| The Latest: Possible attack on US forces led to deployments Posted: 06 May 2019 07:27 AM PDT  WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on the United States and Iran (all times local):
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| Scientists Figured Out How to Make Neural Networks 90 Percent Smaller—but Just as Smart Posted: 07 May 2019 06:37 AM PDT ![Scientists Figured Out How to Make Neural Networks 90 Percent Smaller—but Just as Smart]( "Scientists Figured Out How to Make Neural Networks 90 Percent Smaller—but Just as Smart") Now that AI can get the job done without the dead weight, the applications could be huge.
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| Third parent pleads guilty in college admissions scandal: This one paid $400K to get son into Georgetown Posted: 07 May 2019 01:56 PM PDT  Stephen Semprevivo pleaded guilty Tuesday to paying $400,000 to Rick Singer to get his son into Georgetown University, part of a nationwide scandal.
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| Boeing knew of 737 MAX safety system glitch year before deadly crash Posted: 05 May 2019 06:10 PM PDT  Boeing engineers identified a fault with a pilot warning system on its 737 MAX aircraft in 2017, a year before the deadly Lion Air crash, the company said Sunday. Boeing said that management was unaware of the issue until the crash in Indonesia, which killed 189 people, and the planes were not grounded until after another of the type operated by Ethiopian Airlines went down several months later, leaving a further 157 people dead. According to Boeing, a supposedly standard piece of equipment that tells pilot about disagreements between angle of attack (AOA) indicators -- which measure the plane's angle vis-a-vis oncoming air to warn of impending stalls -- did not in fact activate unless an additional optional indicator was purchased by airlines.
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| EU-Iran trade vehicle unlikely to meet anti-money-laundering norms: U.S. Posted: 07 May 2019 10:19 AM PDT  France, Britain and Germany have set up the special purpose vehicle called Instex, a conduit for barter-based trade with Iran, in an effort to protect at least some of Iran's economy from sweeping U.S. sanctions and keep alive a big-power nuclear deal that Washington is about to quit. The three European Union members have been trying to get Iran to keep its commitments under the deal to cut back its nuclear program - which Washington distrusts - by helping it to circumvent the trade sanctions that Washington has reimposed.
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| Here's the Story Behind Ezra Miller's Insanely Eye-Popping 2019 Met Gala Optical Illusion Look Posted: 07 May 2019 08:23 AM PDT  Bow to the king of "Camp"
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| USS Lincoln deployed to Middle East to send 'clear and unmistakable' message to Iran Posted: 06 May 2019 03:15 PM PDT  U.S. puts Iran on notice; reaction from former CIA station chief Daniel Hoffman on 'Fox & Friends.'
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| US Trade Rep Accuses China of Backtracking on Trade Talks, Says Tariffs Will Rise Friday Posted: 06 May 2019 04:29 PM PDT  Trump administration officials confirmed Monday that the U.S. will raise tariffs on Chinese goods on Friday following a breakdown of trade negotiations last week."Over the course of the last week or so, we've seen an erosion in commitments by China, I would say retreating from commitments that have already been made, in our judgment," U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer told reporters in Washington, D.C. on Monday.The Trump administration will raise tariffs on $200 billion in Chinese goods from 10 percent to 25 percent, effective on Friday. The U.S. also currently has a 25 percent tariff on $50 billion worth of Chinese high-tech products.Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin added that negotiations went "substantially backward" over the weekend after he and Lighthizer visited Beijing last week. However, the officials plan to continue trade talks with a Chinese delegation scheduled to travel to Washington D.C. on Thursday and Friday.Stocks dipped Sunday after President Trump warned about increased tariffs, but were largely recovered by Monday morning."For 10 months, China has been paying Tariffs to the USA of 25% on 50 Billion Dollars of High Tech, and 10% on 200 Billion Dollars of other goods. These payments are partially responsible for our great economic results. The 10% will go up to 25% on Friday. 325 Billions Dollars of additional goods sent to us by China remain untaxed, but will be shortly, at a rate of 25%," Trump said in a pair of tweets Sunday. "The Tariffs paid to the USA have had little impact on product cost, mostly borne by China. The Trade Deal with China continues, but too slowly, as they attempt to renegotiate. No!"The president continued the pressure campaign on China Monday morning, writing in a tweet that, "With China we lose 500 Billion Dollars. Sorry, we're not going to be doing that anymore!"
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| Violence mars 5th phase of India's marathon elections Posted: 06 May 2019 10:46 AM PDT  LUCKNOW, India (AP) — Scattered bomb explosions and clashes between rival political groups marred voting Monday in the crucial fifth phase of India's marathon elections, which also saw Congress party President Rahul Gandhi and his mother, Sonia Gandhi, trying to keep their seats.
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| New trade tensions as US imposes tariffs on Mexican tomatoes Posted: 07 May 2019 03:31 PM PDT  The United States imposed tariffs on Mexican tomatoes on Tuesday, adding to tensions between the two neighbors just as debate deepens over their new -- but not yet ratified -- trade deal with Canada. The 17.5-percent tariffs came into effect after the countries failed to renew an agreement that suspended a US anti-dumping investigation first opened 23 years ago. The US Commerce Department said Tuesday that negotiations to revise the agreement would continue.
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| Exclusive: Pence to offer 'carrots' to Venezuela military, warnings to judges Posted: 06 May 2019 07:02 PM PDT  In a speech to the Americas Society at the State Department, scheduled for 3:25 p.m. (1925 GMT), Pence will also warn that the United States will soon move to sanction 25 additional magistrates on Venezuela's supreme court, the official said on Monday, speaking on condition of anonymity. Pence will also offer assistance for refugees who have fled the country, and an economic aid package contingent on a political transition, according to the official. Pence's speech will be the first look at the Trump administration's recalibrated strategy following massive street protests last week led by Juan Guaido, the opposition leader backed by the United States and most other Western countries.
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| Watch a Tesla Model 3 quickly swerve on its own to avoid an accident at the last second Posted: 06 May 2019 04:06 PM PDT  It's a shame that much of the narrative surrounding Tesla these days centers on the company's stock price, Elon Musk's shenanigans on Twitter, or other trivial details that don't truly capture some of the impressive automotive innovations Tesla has rolled out at a slow and steady pace over the years.Even today, a talking head on CNBC proclaimed that the 'Tesla dream' had come to an end and that the reality is that Tesla simply is unable to execute as promised. But if we move past the talking points, there's a lot of good news lurking beneath the surface. As a prime example, the number of Tesla vehicles on the road has exploded in recent years. To this point, Tesla deliveries from Q1 of 2018 to Q1 of 2019 jumped by an astounding 110%. In turn, we've seen a discernible uptick in videos depicting Tesla vehicles on Autopilot avoiding potentially tragic collisions.The latest example was posted to Reddit earlier today and depicts a Model 3 swerving out of harm's way after being rear-ended and almost careening into a car ahead:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QVdTAwU07Jc"This morning I was rear ended coming to a stop by a lady driving about 40-50 mph," the uploader of the video notes. "The swerve in the video is not me. I don't really remember in the moment but I think it was the Tesla that avoided the front collision. Saved me from bigger damage."Now is it possible that the driver instinctively swerved to the left to avoid the car ahead and simply doesn't remember? Of course. That said, there are rumblings on the Reddit thread that Tesla will take a look at the logs and see exactly what happened.Interestingly enough, this is the second Autopilot video we've seen make the rounds in just the last two weeks:https://twitter.com/RaghuKonka/status/1120209206995406848
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| President Trump Pardons a Former U.S. Soldier Convicted of Killing an Iraqi Prisoner Posted: 07 May 2019 07:50 AM PDT  President Trump has granted a full pardon to former U.S. soldier Michael Behenna, who was convicted of killing an Iraqi prisoner in 2009
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| John Singleton: Private funeral set for Monday, larger memorial in coming weeks Posted: 05 May 2019 07:02 PM PDT  The late "Boyz n the Hood" director John Singleton is being laid to rest in a private funeral Monday.
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| Deceased pets recovered from plane in Florida river Posted: 06 May 2019 12:10 PM PDT  According to authorities, deceased pets have been recovered from a chartered jet that ran into a river at a Florida military base.
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| Russia's Lavrov, after Pompeo talks, warns against U.S. military action in Venezuela Posted: 06 May 2019 08:51 AM PDT  MOSCOW (Reuters) - Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov held talks with his U.S. counterpart Mike Pompeo in Finland on Monday after which he warned that U.S. military intervention in Venezuela would be catastrophic and unjustified. The two men met on the sidelines of a meeting of the Arctic Council in Finland. Lavrov told reporters his meeting had been constructive and that the two top diplomats had made decent progress when it came to discussing strategic nuclear stability. Lavrov also said he was sure that Russian President Vladimir Putin and U.S. ...
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| Ikea opens city-centre concept store in Paris Posted: 06 May 2019 04:19 AM PDT  Ikea opened a new city-centre concept store in Paris on Monday as the Swedish furniture giant tries a new strategy for winning over urban consumers that will be rolled out internationally this year. The Paris outlet at Place Madeleine, a short walk from the bottom of the Champs-Elysees avenue, is four times smaller than Ikea's typical blue-box megastores, which are usually located on cheaper land on the edge of cities. From the opening, we will start learning," the chief executive of Ikea's parent group, Jesper Brodin, told AFP.
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