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July 19, 2018 at 10:30 pm
Time Magazine on Thursday unveiled the cover of its latest issue: a photo of President Trump and Russian President Vladimir Putin morphed into one person.
The July issue’s cover comes after the two leaders’ controversial summit in Helsinki, Finland earlier this week.
This is not the first time Time magazine has poked at Trump on its cover. In January, the cover featured a drawing of Trump with his hair on fire.
Read more at The Hill.
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July 19, 2018 at 10:15 pm
Former White House chief strategist Steve Bannon has weighed in on who could be President Donald Trump’s toughest challenger in 2020 – and it’s not Joe Biden, Bernie Sanders, Elizabeth Warren or any of the other scores of Democratic politicians positioning themselves for potential bids.
The biggest foe, Bannon says, would be Oprah Winfrey.
“I think we’re in a different era,” Bannon said during an interview Wednesday night on CNBC. “I think we’re in an era that media and understanding media and understanding how to communicate on a mass basis to the American people is so much more important than being in a state legislature.”
Bannon said he remains confident that Trump will be reelected. But he also floated other possible 2020 contend...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:36 pm
Baltimore, MD - July 19, 2018 - The Northwest Citizens Patrol annual bike class was again a resounding success. Not only did we have a large turn-out, but Debby Baer, resident safety expert, said that this was the best group ever. The children were attentive; they behaved very well and asked great questions. The children enjoyed the class and learned a lot about bicycle and vehicle safety. This was the first time that NWCP police liaison officer, Robert Labar, taught the bike class and Mrs. Baer said that he did an excellent job.
The class had a surprise visit from Mr. Jerry Shavrick, who with Project Ezra, started these bike classes for children many years ago. Mr. Shavrick was warmly greeted by the class and given a standing ovation. Baltimore technical expert, Avraham Klugman set...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:29 pm
More than a month after North Korea pledged to immediately return some American war dead, the promise is unfulfilled.
Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, who traveled to Pyongyang this month to press the North Koreans further, said Wednesday the return could begin “in the next couple of weeks.” But it could take months or years to positively identify the bones as those of specific American servicemen.
In a joint statement at their Singapore summit, President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un committed to recovering the remains of prisoners of war and those missing in action decades after the Korean War — “including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.”
That was more than a month ago, on June 12. Although Trump said eight days...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:23 pm
A South Korean company’s claim to have found a sunken Russian warship has triggered investor frenzy amid speculation the ship was carrying an enormous amount of gold when it sank 113 years ago. South Korea’s financial regulator subsequently issued a warning against possible investment losses.
The Seoul-based Shinil Group said Tuesday its divers discovered what a wreck it identified as the 6,200-ton Dmitrii Donskoi, which went down during the 1904-1905 Russo-Japanese war off an eastern Korean island. The company speculated about 200 tons of gold bars and coins that are worth 150 trillion won ($132 billion) would still likely be aboard the ship.
Shinil released photos and videos taken by search submarines, which showed markings on the stern the company said was the ship&r...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:21 pm
Donald Trump and Vladimir Putin may have reached several historic agreements at their summit in Finland this week. Or, they may not have. It depends on who you talk to. Three days later no one was quite sure.
With no details emerging from the leaders’ one-on-one discussion on Monday — other than the vague outline they offered themselves — officials, lawmakers and citizens in the U.S. in particular are wondering what, if anything, was actually agreed to. Both Trump and Putin have declared the meeting a grand success that is soon to reap great rewards in numerous geopolitical realms, yet even the most complete accounting of the talks — one provided by Putin — suggests that any outcomes are far from certain.
And, the fact that a high-profile, high-stakes summ...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:19 pm
New York - Target will begin rolling out speedy service for thousands of products by the end of the month in New York, less than a year after spending $550 million to acquire the same-day delivery company Shipt.
Rapid delivery has become the new front in retail, with every major player attempting to beat, or at least match, Amazon.com in its reach.
Target already begun same-day deliveries using Shipt in other parts of the country, including Texas, Illinois, Michigan and Ohio.
Target Corp. said Thursday that the same-day delivery of items like groceries and toys will start on July 31 in Hudson Valley and Kingston. It will launch in other areas, including Long Island, Manhattan, the Bronx, Brooklyn, Queens and Staten Island, next month.
Consumers must sign up for Shipt, regularly priced ...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:18 pm
Washington - Melania Trump spent part of Thursday listening to more than a dozen teens talk about their best practices for being civil online.
The first lady made the short trip to Microsoft’s Innovation and Policy Center in Washington as part of a nationwide child well-being campaign she launched this year called “Be Best,” which includes teaching children and youth to be good citizens online.
The 15 students from across the country participate in Microsoft’s Council for Digital Good and provide ideas and feedback for policy work the computer software maker does on the issue of youth-centered online safety.
The first lady also took in art projects the students designed to represent individual expressions of digital civility, her office said.
Digital civility is...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:17 pm
New York - What do the phrases “blind hatred,” ‘‘frothing,” ‘‘hysteria,” ‘‘meltdown,” ‘‘freak-out” and “derangement” have in common? They’ve all been used by Fox News Channel personalities this week to describe media coverage of President Donald Trump’s Helsinki summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin.
Both Sean Hannity and Laura Ingraham denounced the media at the top of their programs Wednesday. Ingraham instructed viewers on the “Anatomy of a Freak Out” and Hannity offered a history lesson with clips that dated back to election night 2016. Tucker Carlson and the “Fox & Friends” crew also joined in.
“The media has spun around like whirling d...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:16 pm
Washington - Even Donald Trump’s intelligence chief doesn’t know what was said in the president’s one-on-one meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin this week.
Director of National Intelligence Dan Coats made that surprise admission Thursday in his first public comments since rebutting Trump’s questioning of the U.S. intelligence assessment that Russia interfered in the 2016 election.
Speaking at the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado, Coats tiptoed around any potential conflict with his boss, but was upfront about some of his misgivings, saying that he wished Trump had made different statements Monday in Helsinki after meeting Putin.
Coats, who is charged with overseeing the nation’s 17 intelligence agencies, also said that if he had been asked, he wou...
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July 19, 2018 at 9:15 pm
Vineyard Haven, MA - Former Harvard law professor Alan Dershowitz has doubled down on his defense of President Donald Trump to the Martha’s Vineyard crowd that he says has shunned him.
The Boston Globe reports Dershowitz hosted a talk at a local theater Wednesday night where he explains his past comments and says his job is to “provoke conversation.”
Dershowitz has been criticized for arguing that a special counsel should not have been appointed to investigate Trump’s dealings with Russia.
He laments in an op-ed for The Hill last month that his stance has prompted liberal elites on the Vineyard, where he frequently vacations, to shun him.
Wednesday’s event comes days after Trump suggested he believed Russian President Vladimir Putin when he denied Russian ...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:47 pm
Atlanta - A former baggage handler at Atlanta’s airport who helped smuggle guns onto passenger planes bound for New York City was sentenced Thursday to 2 ½ years in prison.
Eugene Harvey, 34, had pleaded guilty in December to conspiring to carry a weapon on an aircraft after reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors.
Harvey worked as a baggage handler and ramp agent for Delta Air Lines at Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport and was fired in December 2014 as a result of the investigation. Prosecutors said he abused his position with the airline to get 135 guns into the airport and then passed them off to be taken to New York to be sold on the black market.
“I made some bad decisions, but I’ve had the time to reflect on that and I am truly sorry,&rdq...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:34 pm
NEW YORK (AP) — Soy and almond drinks that bill themselves as "milk" may need to consider alternative language after a top regulator suggested the agency may start cracking down on use of the term.
The Food and Drug Administration signaled plans to start enforcing a federal standard that defines "milk" as coming from the "milking of one or more healthy cows." That would be a change for the agency, which has not aggressively gone after the proliferation of plant-based drinks labeled as "milk."
FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb talked about the plans this week, noting there are hundreds of federal "standards of identity" spelling out how foods with various names need to be manufactured.
"The question becomes, have we been enforcing our own standard of identity," Gottlieb said about "m...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:32 pm
Having Donald Trump in the White House is looking increasingly like a liability for the Kremlin, rather than an asset. But don’t expect President Vladimir Putin to say that out loud.
Russia’s official assessment of Trump’s high-stakes summit with Putin is carefully upbeat. In his first public comment on it, Putin on Thursday declared it “successful.”
That stands in sharp contrast to the rain of criticism the U.S. president has faced at home. And as the days pass and Trump’s comments about Monday’s summit become more and more contradictory, Moscow appears to be quietly losing hope for a thaw in Russian-U.S. ties under Trump.
Putin doesn’t blame Trump for that. He blames Trump’s opponents.
“Certain forces are trying to disavow...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:30 pm
BRUSSELS (AP) — The European Union says it is already preparing measures to retaliate against the United States if President Donald Trump puts tariffs on imported cars and auto parts.
The auto industry is a big employer and exporter in Europe, and the new tariffs could hit the region hard, as well as consumers and manufacturers in the U.S., where prices would rise.
EU Trade Commissioner Cecilia Malmstrom said Thursday that the 28-nation bloc would be forced to impose more "rebalancing measures" if Trump escalates existing trade tensions with the auto tariffs. U.S. tariffs on imported steel and aluminum imports took effect on June 1; the EU responded by imposing duties on American products.
"If the U.S. would impose these car tariffs that would be very unfortunate," said Malmstrom....
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July 19, 2018 at 6:29 pm
FBI Director Christopher Wray said Wednesday that Russia continues to use fake news, propaganda and covert operations to “spin up” Americans on both sides of hot-button issues to sow discord in the United States.
Wray stood behind the intelligence agencies’ assessment that Moscow meddled in the 2016 presidential election, dismissing Russian President Vladimir Putin’s claim that his country was not involved.
“He’s got his view. I can tell you what my view is,” Wray said at the opening event of the Aspen Security Forum in Colorado. “The intelligence community’s view has not changed. My view has not changed.”
Wray spoke after a day of controversy in Washington over whether President Donald Trump accepts the intelligence agen...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:27 pm
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) — Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin rocket company shot a capsule higher into space Wednesday than it's ever done before.
The New Shepard rocket blasted off from West Texas on the company's latest test flight. Once the booster separated, the capsule's escape motor fired, lifting the spacecraft to an altitude of 389,846 feet. That's 74 miles or 119 kilometers.
It's part of a safety system intended to save lives once space tourists and others climb aboard for suborbital hops.
Wednesday's passenger was Mannequin Skywalker, an instrumented dummy in a blue flight suit that's flown before, plus science experiments.
The booster and capsule — both repeat fliers — landed successfully. It was the ninth test flight and last...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:25 pm
Iranian President Hassan Rouhani’s chief of staff claims the president rejected eight requests from President Donald Trump last year for one-on-one talks.
It’s the latest comment from Tehran suggesting Iran isn’t prepared to embark on bilateral negotiations with Washington.
Trump earlier this year pulled America out of the international deal meant to prevent Tehran from developing a nuclear weapon. He said last week that with increased American sanctions, “at a certain point they’re going to call me and say ‘let’s make a deal.'”
State-owned IRAN newspaper quoted Rouhani’s chief of staff Mahmoud Vaezi saying Thursday that “it’s been the reverse, so far,” with Trump seeking to initiate talks.
He says Iran reje...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:17 pm
Shreveport, LA - A robbery suspect used a stolen cellphone to snap a selfie and, in the process, gave authorities his identity.
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That’s according to police in Shreveport, Louisiana.
The Shreveport Times reports the victim of a July 10 robbery told police he was held up at gunpoint as he exited his car. The victim said he surrendered cash and two cellphones, and the robber fled.
Three days later, the victim told police the suspect had taken photos of himself that automatically uploaded to the victim’s cloud. The victim retrieved the photos, which investigators then released to the public. Two days later, a tipster gave a suspect’s identity via Shreveport Caddo Crime Stoppers.
Police say 27-year-old Tommy Lee Beverly Jr. is now being sought on...
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July 19, 2018 at 6:14 pm
As the Jewish nation stood at the threshold of entering Eretz Yisroel, Moshe Rabbeinu took the opportunity to remind the Jewish nation of the sin of the Spies, whose sin was what prevented them from entering Eretz Yisroel in the first place. He implored them, and in a deeper sense, every Jew in the future, to never to repeat the Spies’ mistake.
What exactly did the Jews do wrong in the episode of sending the spies? The Jewish nation was following the normal practice of combat by sending them. Furthermore, can we blame them for hesitating from entering the land? The spies reported truthfully that the land was filled with powerful giants. Furthermore, they reported that everywhere they went, the populace was dying in droves from some sort of plague. Even the righteous Kalev and Yehosh...
