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Trump Flubbed His Response to Charlottesville
The joke being that for just one moment a Steven Spielberg film approached understatement. All I remember is learning that this flag celebrated the South's unsuccessful fight to preserve the right to own human beings. " You can not say there are good people standing in this rally because if a good person left their home and went to this event, and showed up, and a person next to them was hold... [Full Article...]
Cardi B Buys New Bentley, But Still Doesn't Have Her Driver's License
The Bronx rapper released a Latin Trap remix of the single Friday morning (Aug. 18), which features the singer rapping the original tune in Spanish, along with an added verse from Latin trap pioneer, Messiah . "And I Cashed out on it, Straight bought the shit". I'm from NY bitch I rode the train all my life ....and then my father don't make it any better... [Full Article...]
Mersal Audio Launch LIVE @ Sun Tv
The film has been written and directed by Atlee, with maestro A.R. Rahman composing the film's score. The two singles released so far are alright, they are not bad, but they don't have the chartbuster quality as well. Vijay will be portraying triple roles in the film. Now, Ilayathalapathy Vijay has become the first Tamil actor to have a character emoji on Twitter. [Full Article...]
'No interest' in speaking with Trump, Charlottesville victim's mother says
Please note: This is a commentary piece. Heather Heyer , 32, was killed in Charlottesville on Saturday when a suspected white nationalist drove his vehicle into a crowd protesting the far-right march. Share prices on the United States stock market came under pressure as the demise of the Trump business panels added to investor worries about the future of the White House's agenda. [Full Article...]
Netflix is using 'The Defenders' debut to hype 'The Punisher'
Daredevil fans might remember the second season ended with hints that Castle's past military career had several secrets he needed to deal with, so it looks like Frank will be going back to his past and dealing with whatever comes out. While not available in an official capacity yet (and we'll update when it is), the first Punisher trailer was scooped up and dropped on Twitter. You have to "un... [Full Article...]
China's first internet court goes online
E-commerce website Alibaba has its busiest day of the year on November 11. Residents of Hangzhou can register their complaints online and log onto their trial via videochat. Du Qian, the cyber court chief justice said:'The cyber court will offer regular people an efficient, low-priced solution to these new kinds of disputes that take place on the internet. [Full Article...]
Poll finds many call Saturday's events in Charlottesville 'domestic terrorism'
White supremacists clashed with demonstrators who opposed racism and it ended in death and injury in Charlottesville. House Speaker Paul Ryan tweeted Tuesday that "white supremacy is repulsive", but did not specifically address the president's comments. [Full Article...]
United Nations aid chief calls for protection of workers
New Zealand's community of disaster relief workers are marking World Humanitarian Day - and remembering the 82 aid workers who have died so far in 2017. Worsening militant violence across the region has seen aid workers attacked on almost 200 occasions in Central African Republic, more than 115 in Mali and about 75 in the Democratic Republic of Congo, U.N. [Full Article...]
EPS Predictions Review: Schlumberger Limited (SLB)
It has ranged in price between $62.95-$63.8 after having started the session at $63.46 as compared to the previous trading day's close of $63.71. About 11.86M shares traded or 76.75% up from the average. Zacks Investment Research downgraded Schlumberger N.V. from a "hold" rating to a "sell" rating in a research report on Thursday, July 27th. As per Wednesday, September 9, the company rating was m... [Full Article...]
South Korea pledges 'no war on Korean peninsula'
Marine Corps General Joe Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, is visiting China to further military-to-military ties between the two Pacific powers, according to the US Department of Defence. Using heated language unusual for a U.S. president, Trump recently warned that if Pyongyang threatens to attack the United States again, the USA will respond with "fire and fury like the world h... [Full Article...]
No military action on Korean Peninsula without S. Korea consent: Moon
Gen. Joseph Dunford said Thursday that he has advised USA leadership not to "dial back" joint war games with South Korea that are due to begin next week despite threats from North Korea . I've seen no intelligence that would indicate that we're in that place today, ' he said. Before that, however, North Korea's military announced it was working on a plan to "contain" the United States air, ... [Full Article...]
Lawsuit claims Poland Spring water isn't from a spring
It also alleges water in Poland Spring-labeled bottles isn't "collected from pristine mountain or forest springs as the images on those labels depict". Nestlé, headquartered in Stamford, Connecticut, owns a number of regional bottled water brands. The lawsuit says that Poland Spring is merely "ordinary groundwater" that comes from sources "in low-lying populated areas near potential sources of c... [Full Article...]
China urges U.S. to exercise caution over North Korea
If there is a military escalation in the region, Japan and South Korea will be the most vulnerable countries. Guam's Office of Civil Defense began disseminating fact sheets Friday to help residents prepare for a missile attack from North Korea . [Full Article...]
ACLU will no longer defend hate groups that protest with firearms
Writing in The New York Times , Park argues that the ACLU gives short shrift to barriers that prevent people of color from participating in democratic debate even if they theoretically have the right to do so. Most famously, the ACLU successfully defended the rights of neo-Nazis to march in the Chicago suburb of Skokie , Ill., in 1978, which was home to many Holocaust survivors. [Full Article...]
China urges U.S. and North Korea to 'hit the brakes' on threats
The exercises are expected to run from August 21 to August 31 and involve tens of thousands of American and South Korean troops on the ground and in the sea and air. The cooling rhetoric comes after a stern warning monday from Defense Secretary James Mattis. Analysts said that a wide swath of the continental United States, including Los Angeles and Chicago, could be within reach of those missile... [Full Article...]
China tells US, North Korea to 'hit the brakes' on threats
He raised questions about a United States missile shield, pushed for dialogue with Kim and sought to mend ties with China, North Korea's main ally and benefactor. Pyongyang responded by saying it was considering a strike against the US Pacific territory of Guam. -South Korean military exercises that enrage the North each year could make diplomacy even more hard. [Full Article...]
Mattis traveling to Jordan, Turkey, Ukraine next week
U.S. Secretary of Defense Jim Mattis will travel to Turkey later this month to discuss Turkey's concerns over the U.S.' support for the PKK's Syrian affiliate the Democratic Union Party (PYD) and its armed People's Protection Unit (YPG). US Defense Secretary James Mattis will visit Ukraine on August 24, Pentagon spokesman Eric Pahon told Sputnik on Friday. Mattis' trip will conclude in Kyiv, Ukr... [Full Article...]
Donald Trump responds to Barcelona attacks with pig blood Islam execution myths
In the wake of Thursday's terror attack in Barcelona, Trump tweeted: "Study what General Pershing of the United States did to terrorists when caught". "Twenty-five years there wasn't a problem!" Politfact labeled it trousers on Fire! false on its Truth-O-Meter and Snopes called it "false". Snopes previously found a lack of evidence the story, which has circulated online for years, and Politi... [Full Article...]
2 police officers injured in South City crash; suspect in custody
The suspect was arrested, and he was also taken to the hospital. Police say officers were conducting an undercover investigation when the suspect drove off. A suspect vehicle reportedly struck the officers' vehicle at Morganford Road and Fyler Avenue around 11:30 a.m. Authorities say they found two guns and suspected drugs in the suspect's vehicle. [Full Article...]
Sacrificed over Dawn Leaks to save democracy: Pervaiz Rashid
Pervaiz Rashid said establishment provided the thinking power while their political rivals Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf (PTI) played on forefront against PML-N. "Decisions came against us despite having ministry of interior". He said the six-member committee that decided the Dawn leaks issue comprised one member of the Interior Ministry while five of them were either under federal or provincial gove... [Full Article...]