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Russian bombers escorted away from US aircraft carrier

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Tech firms reveal sweeping scale of Russian influence in US

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READ MORE Silicon Valley is settling in to get grilled by Washington. Executives from Facebook ( FB , Tech30 ) , Twitter ( TWTR , Tech30 ) and Google ( GOOGL , Tech30 ) testified before Congress Tuesday in the first of three hearings this week into how foreign nationals used social media to meddle in the 2016 presidential election. At the hearing, held by the Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Crime and Terrorism, the tech companies were pressed on their ability to prevent bad actors from taking advantage of their platforms through ads and regular posts. “I’m trying to get us down from la la land here. The truth of the matter is you have 5 million advertisers that change every month, every minute, probably every second,” Sen. John Kennedy, a Louisiana Republican, asked Colin Stretch, Facebook’s general counsel. “You don’t have the ability to know who every one of those advertisers is, do you?” Stretch admitted Facebook had limitations o...

London theaters react to Kevin Spacey allegation

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Chris Brown drops new album with 45 tracks

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List of Five: Josh Hutcherson of ‘The Hunger Games’ Keeps His Wardrobe Basic

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READ MORE Photo Josh Hutcherson, wearing a Marc Jacobs leather coupler he got from a “Hunger Games” press tour. Credit Brad Torchia for The New York Times Josh Hutcherson, who has been behaving given he was 9, is utterly a maestro of sci-fi. At 25, he is maybe best famous for personification Peeta Mellark from “The Hunger Games,” and this month he will starring as a time-traveling janitor in Hulu’s “ Future Man .” Off camera, Mr. Hutcherson prefers a some-more earthbound existence, unresolved out in his Los Angeles home in T-shirts, jeans, caps and Adidas Sambas. Shirt There is this association called Kelly Cole. They have one emporium here on La Brea. we was only kind of walking around and found my approach inside a store. They have these T-shirts they make themselves. They have a selected feeling yet they’re new, so it’s good since they don’t wear out as easily. we have them in each color. we get 5 green, 5 blue, 5 gray a...

Red Carpet Looks by Burberry

READ MORE Jennifer Aniston, right, and Owen Wilson, both wearing Burberry, attend a U.K. premiere of a film “Marley And Me” in 2009 in London. Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/travel/appalachian-trail-safety-tips.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Paris agreement targets leave 'alarming gap' to slow climate change: UN report

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READ MORE Canada has no evident skeleton to lift a targets for slicing emissions, notwithstanding vigour from a United Nations to step it adult or risk a disaster of a Paris meridian change agreement. In a 2015 Paris accord, 196 countries, including Canada, concluded to set inhabitant targets to cut hothouse gas emissions en track to preventing a universe from warming adult some-more than dual degrees Celsius on normal compared with pre-industrial levels. UN Environment Tuesday expelled a eighth annual emissions opening report, that says Paris signatories have so distant usually committed to one-third of a cuts to emissions that will be compulsory to grasp a goal. Proposed Manitoba CO taxation ‘will have to go up’: Federal sourroundings minister Manitoba thumbs nose during Ottawa, sets possess CO taxation scheme Canada is one of a biggest laggards, with a UN observant that not usually are Canada’s existent targets too low, it does not nonetheless have a policies in pla...

Caribou numbers continue to decline as provinces fail to meet protection deadline

READ MORE Five years after they were forced to come adult with strategies to strengthen medium for a boreal caribou, not a singular operation has met that deadline, according to a sovereign supervision swell news released today. The news paints a dour design for a animal.  While the regions finish drafting their strategies, a series of caribou continues to decline, a news says. “I consider a provinces and a territories commend that this is a really difficult subject and involves perplexing to find a trail that will accommodate a liberation needs of a caribou, though do so in a approach that is supportive to a needs of mercantile actors in a boreal forest,” Jonathan Wilkinson, parliamentary secretary to a sourroundings minister, told reporters Tuesday. The request also states that while provinces have finished some swell on entrance adult with liberation strategies for a caribou, a iconic class continue to decrease in numbers, and a “h...

Washington Memo: A Capital Consumed by Talk of Scandal and Suspicion

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READ MORE Most unnerving for many here was a fulfilment that Mr. Papadopoulos had been personally arrested 3 months ago and auxiliary with prosecutors ever since. Former colleagues sought to remember contacts they had with him, presumably final year when he was reaching out to a Russians or in new weeks when he was operative for a authorities. “Is there a darker cloud over a Trump presidency? The answer is yes,” pronounced Ed Rogers, a distinguished lobbyist and White House maestro of dual Republican presidencies. “Is it a thundershower or a whirly environment in? Nobody knows.” Mr. Trump argued for drizzle, dismissing Mr. Manafort’s complaint on charges of income laundering and unfamiliar lobbying as separate to a debate and belittling Mr. Papadopoulos as a nobody. “Few people knew a young, low spin proffer named George, who has already proven to be a liar,” Mr. Trump wrote on Twitter on Tuesday in his initial criticism on a unfamiliar process...

How Russian Bots and Trolls Invade Our Lives — and Elections

READ MORE By NATALIA V. OSIPOVA and AARON BYRD | Nov. 1, 2017 | 5:03 How do bots and trolls work to penetrate amicable media platforms and change U.S. elections? We take a closer demeanour during these guileful online pests to explain how they work. Article source: http://www.nytimes.com/2016/05/28/travel/appalachian-trail-safety-tips.html?partner=rss&emc=rss

Crew take control of playoff after Callens red card

READ MORE (Reuters) – Columbus Crew took full advantage of personification with an additional male to measure 3 second-half goals on a approach to a 4-1 feat over New York City FC in a initial leg of their Major League Soccer Eastern Conference semi-final showdown on Tuesday. Trailing 1-0, New York City defender Alexander Callens was shown a red label in a 52nd notation after a video examination showed he had elbowed Justin Meram in a face, and a home side spared no forgiveness to seize control of a contest. Columbus had already taken an early lead when Ola Kamara netted a close-range bid in a sixth notation and a Crew pulled transparent in a final 45 minutes. Artur scored from a center of a chastisement area in a 58th minute, before Meram combined a third in a 69th notation and Harrison Afful capped a subjection with an damage time strike. David Villa scored a 78th notation satisfaction idea for New York City, who now find themselves in a outrageous hole streamer into a second le...

Baseball: Dodgers rally past Astros to force Game Seven

READ MORE LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – Corey Seager’s sixth inning scapegoat fly helped a Los Angeles Dodgers eke out a come-from-behind 3-1 Game Six feat over a Houston Astros on Tuesday to force a World Series decider. Seager’s low fly round to right margin authorised Chase Utley to scurry home for a go-ahead run, igniting a sold-out throng of 54,128 as a Dodgers tied a array adult during 3-3 to set adult Wednesday’s winner-take-all showdown. Dodgers core fielder Chris Taylor continued his purchase attack in a post-season, restraining a diversion 1-1 progressing in a inning with a double down a right margin line off of losing pitcher Justin Verlander. “I was only perplexing to put a round in play,” Taylor said. “He’s unequivocally tough with that fastball adult in a section and a good slider. we was only perplexing to get a tub on a round and wish for something good and it worked out for me,” he said. Taylor has reached bottom safely 26...

Dodgers force World Series Game 7 with 3-1 win against Astros

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Google Docs Glitch That Locked Out Users Underscores Privacy Concerns

READ MORE Some of these people sought answers, and told others, on Twitter. Has anyone had @googledocs close we out of a doc before? My breeze of a story about wildlife crime was only solidified for violating their TOS. — Rachael Bale (@Rachael_Bale) Oct. 31, 2017 “Obviously this is lifting questions in a lot of people’s minds about a turn of notice in internet tools, like cloud-based tools,” Rachael Bale , whose tweets gained traction, pronounced on Tuesday. Ms. Bale, a contributor for National Geographic’s Wildlife Watch, pronounced that while what happened was “problematic,” she was not too taken aback. “We know Google has entrance to all kinds of information about us,” she said, adding that professionally, she avoids regulating Google Docs for “anything sensitive.” A Google orator pronounced in a matter that a “code push” caused a tiny commission of Google Docs to be wrongly flagged as abusive, that c...

Release of House tax bill delayed until Thursday

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Republicans in a U.S. House of Representatives will check a recover of long-awaited taxation legislation by one day until Thursday, a conduct of a chamber’s tax-writing row pronounced late on Tuesday. “In conference with President Trump and a care team, we have motionless to recover a check content on Thursday,” House Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady pronounced in a statement. “We are gratified with a swell we are creation and we sojourn on report to take movement and approve a check during a Committee commencement subsequent week,” a Republican lawmaker added. In a twitter on Tuesday night before Brady’s statement, President Donald Trump said: “The Republican House members are operative tough (and late) toward a Massive Tax Cuts that they know we deserve. These will be biggest ever!” Republicans, who control both chambers of Congress, are looking to taxation remodel for their initial leg...

Suspected terrorist truck attack kills eight on New York bike path

READ MORE NEW YORK (Reuters) – A male pushing a rented pickup lorry mowed down pedestrians and cyclists on a bike trail alongside a Hudson River in New York City on Tuesday, murdering 8 people and injuring about a dozen in what authorities conspicuous was an act of terrorism. The 29-year-old think was shot in a stomach by military and arrested after he crashed a lorry into a propagandize train and fled his vehicle, authorities said. A U.S. law coercion source told Reuters a think is an Uzbekistan-born immigrant. CNN and The New York Times, any citing law coercion sources, reported that investigators found a note left by a think claiming he carried out a conflict in a name of a Islamic State belligerent group. Five of a passed were Argentine citizens, visiting New York as partial of a organisation of friends celebrating a 30th anniversary of their high propagandize graduation, a Argentina Foreign Ministry said. A sixth member of a organisation was among those hospitalized after a a...

Russian lawyer who met Trump Jr. seeks return to U.S. to defend money laundering settlement

READ MORE WASHINGTON (Reuters) – Russian counsel Natalia Veselnitskaya, who met with Donald Trump Jr. during a 2016 U.S. presidential campaign, wants accede to lapse to a United States to urge a explain by prosecutors that her client’s association has unsuccessful to compensate a $6 million allotment in an general income laundering case. Veselnitskaya represented Prevezon Holdings Ltd, a Russian-controlled company, that in May this year concluded to compensate scarcely $6 million to a U.S. supervision to settle a $230 million Russian taxation rascal box associated to Hermitage Capital, an American comment that invested in Russia. In a justice filing in sovereign justice in Manhattan on Monday U.S. prosecutors pronounced a allotment remuneration was due on Oct. 31, though in a minute on Tuesday filed in sovereign justice in Manhattan lawyers for Prevezon disagreed. About half of a allotment income was ostensible to come from 3 million euros due to Prevezon that a U.S. supervi...

'I want to quit': Fox News employees embarrassed by Mueller coverage

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READ MORE Some employees at Fox News were left embarrassed and humiliated by their network’s coverage of the latest revelations in special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation into Russian election meddling, according to conversations CNN had with several individuals placed throughout the network. “I’m watching now and screaming,” one Fox News personality said in a text message to CNN as the person watched their network’s coverage. “I want to quit.” “It is another blow to journalists at Fox who come in every day wanting to cover the news in a fair and objective way,” one senior Fox News employee told CNN of their outlet’s coverage, adding that there were “many eye rolls” in the newsroom over how the news was covered. The person said, “Fox feels like an extension of the Trump White House.” The employees spoke to CNN on the condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak publ...

Manafort's travels: Trump's former campaign chief had 3 passports, $100 million in assets

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You won't recognize the celeb who won Halloween

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Millie Bobby Brown opens up about 'Stranger Things' Season 2

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Party Coverage: Scene City: Bette Midler, Michael Kors and Eric Schmidt at Hulaween Benefit

READ MORE Bette Midler, center, held her annual Hulaween benefit for the New York Restoration Project on Monday. She posed with her Broadway cast from “Hello, Dolly!,” which performed a parody number, “Hello, Dollars!” later in the night.  Article source: http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/18/americas/atlantic-storms-maria-jose-lee/index.html Share this: Click to share on Twitter (Opens in new window) Click to share on Facebook (Opens in new window) Click to share on Google+ (Opens in new window) Best Wordpress Plugin development company in India       Best Web development company in India

Christopher Bailey, Burberry Chief Creative Officer, Is Leaving

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READ MORE “We believe this is a necessary move to make Burberry exciting again,” Luca Solca, head of luxury goods at the investment company Exane BNP Paribas, wrote in an analyst note. “Creative directors — like all artists (painters, composers, singers) — tend to produce variations on a theme. Most brands that have gone through a revival had to first find new creative resources.’’ Slide Show Red Carpet Looks by Burberry Credit Known for his geniality and for keeping a low profile in an industry that tends to celebrate the extreme, Mr. Bailey joined Burberry as design director in 2001, when the company was struggling to create a fashion identity under Roberto Menichetti. Appointed creative director in 2004 and chief creative officer in 2009, Mr. Bailey positioned Burberry as a conduit of Britishness to the world, working with actors, musicians and artists to amplify his fashion message into one of cultural leadership. Like Karl Lagerfeld at ...

Clark Kent shows up for House duty as Trudeau shows off latest Halloween costume

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READ MORE It’s a bird. It’s a plane. No, it’s Justin Trudeau. The prime minister is disguised as Clark Kent as his Halloween alter ego for 2017. On his way to question period today, Trudeau descended the stairs sporting slicked-down hair and a blue suit with a bright red tie, surprising the assembled staff and journalists who were waiting for him. As he got to the bottom of the stairs, he opened his shirt to expose the Superman costume hidden underneath, quipping in both official languages that it was a big shock to see the prime minister dressed as a journalist, but “you know, gotta do it.” Trudeau comes to QP dressed as Clark Kent 0:13 Trudeau has a history of having fun with Halloween, choosing Han Solo of “Star Wars” fame for his first year in office. Last year he went as a pilot from the French children’s book “Le Petit Prince,” while his son, Hadrien, went as the title character. Trudeau wasn’t the only MP in the Ho...

Scheer ditches Morneau Shepell sponsorship for Toronto speech

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READ MORE An awkward and short-lived alliance came to an abrupt end on Tuesday, when Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer ditched pension adminstration giant Morneau Shepell as the co-sponsor of an upcoming speech in Toronto. For weeks, Scheer and his MPs have been giving plenty of free, if probably unwelcome, attention to Morneau Shepell in the House of Commons, as they hammered Finance Minister Bill Morneau for retaining roughly a million shares in the business, which was started by Morneau’s father.  So it prompted giggles on social media when an email went out Tuesday morning announcing that Scheer’s speech on Nov. 30 for the Canadian Club of Toronto, entitled “A Prosperity for Hardworking Canadians,” would be co-sponsored by Morneau Shepell. An Oct. 31 email from the Canadian Club of Toronto promoting the speech included the Morneau Shepell logo. (CBC) On Monday, Deputy Opposition Whip John Brass...

In Wealthy Enclaves He Frequents, Manafort’s Spending Fails to Impress

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READ MORE Advertisement Supported by Image The indictment of Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, included a detailed list of lavish purchases including everything from suits to rugs. Credit Alex Brandon/Associated Press WASHINGTON — Look closely enough, and the document charging Paul Manafort with money laundering, tax evasion and foreign lobbying reads less like a 12-count federal indictment and more like the ultimate spendthrift whodunit. It is the kind of tab that could raise the Botoxed eyebrows of Beverly Hills, New York and Washington, all places where dizzying displays of wealth are not abnormal but instead usually the price of admission. Mr. Manafort, the Trump campaign’s former chairman and — at least for now — its most infamous shopper, spent millions on Range Rovers, landscaping, audiovisual equipment, home improvement and clothing, dispensing money thought to be paid through shell companies to a veritable alphabet soup ...