We don't play for television ratings here, decisions have a ripple effect that impact people's lives. The White House seems to have lost its long-respected status and turned into a circus with a clown leading the marching band. Mame Dennison, Dallas Will the Senate respond? What happens if Trump manages to shut down the Russian investigation? What happens if this apparent cover up is successful?
What happens if Trump manages to replace James Comey with a puppet? What happens if this new FBI director quietly purges any strong FBI agents dedicated to the Constitution, effectively creating a different national police force? These and other outlandish questions are moot if Sens. John Cornyn and Ted Cruz as well as my congressman, Michael Burgess, decide that being an American is more important than being a Republican and demand an independent investigator.
This burden is on the Republican Senate. In addition to all the mean and hateful things our president has said and done, the manner in which Comey was removed should be repugnant to all of us. In the business world from where Trump hails, when it's time to let an employee go, the boss usually calls that employee into his or her office to give them the news.
Comey held one of the most important and impactful positions in our government. Apparently he first learned that he was fired from watching the news, which was playing on television screens during a meeting he was having with agents in Los Angeles. The most powerful man in the world chose the cowardly route to send the FBI director packing. It takes dignity, respect, courage, compassion and professionalism to directly inform another person that you are taking away his or her livelihood. If the president isn't willing to display any of those traits for somebody in such a high position, what does that say about what he thinks of us little people?
Michael Anthony, Carrollton Comey as special prosecutor I nominate James Comey as the special prosecutor for the investigation of any ties to Russia by members or representatives of the Donald Trump presidential campaign. It is, I am sure, within his powers to do so, but it definitely looks as if he is trying to scuttle the FBI investigation or intimidate the FBI. Whatever the reason, the optics are terrible. Frankly, he appears to be acting in a way that is unwise for his present situation and destabilizing to our government. I am concerned and I assume Congress is also.
Although Congress, if I understand correctly, does not initiate this, I hope that they are on board with that action. A short-term victory for this president could mean a long-term defeat for our country. There have been so many surprising and tumultuous events coming out of Washington that I am in need of a relaxing break.
I think that I'll watch a movie. How about All the President's Men? Daryl Davis, Dallas Hoped for neutral viewpoint After watching the news explosion on the Comey termination and the predicted tired old words rolling out in unison from the standard Democrat noisemakers, I had hoped The Dallas Morning News would headline a neutral viewpoint. Same words -- decapitate, coup, bad timing, why not earlier, collusion, Russian investigation, close Trump advisers, Watergate, Saturday night massacre, etc. I still have not heard a definite answer to what is being investigated, who the Trump advisers were and what the collusion was.
Words have meaning, but obviously the anti-Trump folks believe words are for destruction and division. I feel you are the most negative newspaper in Texas, and nothing more than an extension of the elitist New York Times. Fred Kazmierski, Carrollton Stop this coup A special prosecutor must be appointed.
Nothing else will do. Otherwise, a coup has occurred where the Department of Justice and the FBI are now fully controlled by this administration. Again, a special prosecutor fully funded and with all powers needed for the investigation must be appointed. Chuck Schumer demands a special prosecutor to assume responsibility for the Russia probe.
If that will stop the constant negative comments from the liberals, let's have the Justice Department select an individual to perform that function. In addition, the Justice Department should appointment a second special prosecutor to re-examine the investigation of the Hillary Clinton review for her error in utilizing a private email server to process documents, including those with potential security-breach ramifications.
This is also important because of the possible Russian hacking. Congress seems to be his lapdog, so that leaves only federal judges, who are appointed for life, and have the power to rule and enforce their orders. Let's wait and see if any one of them has the guts to do this. Now, Democrats seem to believe that Comey was ousted because he was secretly working against the Russians and Trump. The vast-right-wing-conspiracy theory gets stranger every day. Ken Ashby, Dallas A red herring The firing of James Comey as head of the FBI, ostensibly for a failure to prosecute Hillary Clinton, sounds like a classic red herring ploy to divert attention away from the investigation into possible links of the Trump administration to Russia.
One can only wonder what is being unearthed in that investigation that would spook the administration into killing the messenger for what he might bring to light. Speaking to graduates at Liberty University, Trump returned to his outsider message. He spoke about challenging the Washington order as he struggles with a political crisis that has intensified with his contradictory explanations for his firing FBI Director James Comey.
But the future belongs to the dreamers, not to the critics. Were you interviewed for this story? Trump gives commencement address at Liberty University detroitnews. Maher said that if President Clinton hadn't boarded Lynch's plane on the Sky Harbor Airport tarmac for several minutes without a third party, Lynch would have held the harshly-criticized press conference instead of Comey. Dem Rep's Twitter Storm: Focus on Trump's Accomplishments, Not 'Manufactured Comey Crisis' At the July press conference Comey laid out the aggravating factors in the case against Secretary Clinton, but then recommended against prosecuting her for mishandling classified information.
Maher said that after Comey made a second statement prior to the election that the FBI was looking at Clinton-related emails found on former Rep.
He said such Democratic backlash against Comey gave President Trump a "talking point" after he effectively consented to their wishes and fired Comey last week. Maher On Comey Firing: FATIMA, Portugal -- Pope Francis added two Portuguese shepherd children to the roster of Catholic saints Saturday, honoring young siblings whose reported visions of the Virgin Mary years ago turned the Portuguese farm town of Fatima into one of the world's most important Catholic shrines. Francis proclaimed Francisco and Jacinta Marto saints at the start of Mass marking the centenary of their visions.
A half-million people watched in the vast square in front of the shrine's basilica, the Vatican said, citing Portuguese authorities. Many had spent days at Fatima in quiet prayer, reciting rosaries before a statue of the Madonna. They clapped as soon as Francis read the proclamation aloud. She said she prayed to Francisco Marto for 20 years, hoping her four daughters would meet "nice boys like Francisco. Francisco and Jacinta, aged 9 and 7, and their year-old cousin, Lucia, reported that on March 13,, the Virgin Mary made the first of a half-dozen appearances to them here while they grazed their sheep.
They said she confided in them three secrets -- foretelling apocalyptic visions of hell, war, communism and the death of a pope -- and urged them to pray for peace and a conversion away from sin. At the time, Europe was in the throes of World War I, and the Portuguese church was suffering under anti-clerical laws from the republican government that had forced many bishops and priests into exile. The children had been threatened by local civil authorities with death by boiling oil if they didn't recant their story.
But they held fast and eventually the church recognized the apparitions as authentic in Christians make up only 10 percent of the population in the predom The Martos are now the youngest-ever saints who didn't die as martyrs. Before the Mass, Francis prayed at the tombs of each of the Fatima visionaries. The Marto siblings died two years after the visions during Europe's Spanish flu pandemic. Lucia is on track for possible beatification, but her process couldn't start until after her death.
At the end of the Mass, Francis was to offer a special greeting to the many faithful who flock to Fatima in hopes of healing. Many toss wax body parts -- hands, hearts, livers and limbs -- into a giant fire pit at the shrine as an offering.
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They were with their son, Lucas, whose medically inexplicable healing was the "miracle" needed for the Marto siblings to be declared saints. The boy, aged 5 at the time, had fallen about 21 feet from a window in and suffered such severe head trauma that his doctors said he would be severely mentally disabled or in a vegetative state if he even survived. The boy not only survived but has no signs of any after-effects.
Pope Francis turned 80, and he celebrated the special day by having breakfast with the homeless. John Paul II beatified the Marto siblings during a Mass at Fatima and used the occasion of the new millennium to reveal the third "secret" that the children reported they had received from the Madonna. The text, written by Lucia, had been kept in a sealed envelope inside the Vatican for decades, with no pope daring to reveal it because of its terrifying contents: The message featured an angel crying out "penance, penance, penance!
A global "ransomware" cyberattack, unprecedented in scale, had technicians scrambling to restore Britain's crippled hospital network Saturday and secure the computers that run factories, banks, government agencies and transport systems in many other nations. The worldwide effort to extort cash from computer users is so unprecedented that Microsoft quickly changed its policy, announcing security fixes available for free for the older Windows systems still used by millions of individuals and smaller businesses.
After an emergency government meeting Saturday in London, Britain's home secretary said one in five of National Health Service groups had been hit. The onslaught forced hospitals to cancel or delay treatments for thousands of patients, even some with serious aliments like cancer. Security officials in Britain urged organizations to protect themselves by updating their security software fixes, running anti-virus software and backing up data elsewhere.
Who perpetrated this wave of attacks remains unknown. Two security firms - Kaspersky Lab and Avast - said they identified the malicious software in more than 70 countries. Both said Russia was hit hardest. And all this may be just a taste of what's coming, a leading cyber security expert warned. Computer users worldwide - and everyone else who depends on them - should assume that the next big "ransomware" attack has already been launched, and just hasn't manifested itself yet, Ori Eisen, who founded the Trusona cybersecurity firm in Scottsdale, Arizona, told The Associated Press.
The attack held hospitals and other entities hostage by freezing computers, encrypting data and demanding money through online bitcoin payments. He said the same thing could be done to crucial infrastructure, like nuclear power plants, dams or railway systems.
This is not the serious stuff yet. What if the same thing happened to 10 nuclear power plants, and they would shut down all the electricity to the grid? What if the same exact thing happened to a water dam or to a bridge? Europol, the European Union's police agency, said the onslaught was at "an unprecedented level and will require a complex international investigation to identify the culprits. National Security Agency for its own intelligence-gathering purposes. The NSA tools were stolen by hackers and dumped on the internet.
A young cybersecurity researcher has been credited with helping to halt the ransomware's spread by accidentally activating a so-called "kill switch" in the malicious software. The year-old Britain-based researcher, identified online only as MalwareTech, explained Saturday how he inadvertently discovered Friday that the software's spread could be stopped by registering a garbled domain name.
Other impacts in the U. The kill switch couldn't help those already infected, however. Short of paying, options for these individuals and companies are usually limited to recovering data files from a backup, if available, or living without them. Security experts said it appeared to be caused by a self-replicating piece of software that enters companies when employees click on email attachments, then spreads quickly as employees share documents.
The security holes it exploits were disclosed weeks ago by TheShadowBrokers, a mysterious group that published what it said are hacking tools used by the NSA. Microsoft swiftly announced that it had already issued software "patches" to fix those holes, but many users haven't yet installed updates or still use older versions of Windows.
Before Friday's attack, Microsoft had made fixes for older systems, such as 's Windows XP, available only to mostly larger organizations that paid extra for extended technical support. Microsoft says now it will make the fixes free for everyone. In Brazil, the social security system had to disconnect its computers and cancel public access. The state-owned oil company Petrobras and Brazil's Foreign Ministry also disconnected computers as a precautionary measure, and court systems went down, too.
In Russia, government agencies insisted that all attacks had been resolved. Russian Interior Ministry, which runs the national police, said the problem had been "localized" with no information compromised. Russia's health ministry said its attacks were "effectively repelled. Russian cellular phone operators Megafon and MTS were hit. The national railway said it was attacked but operations were unaffected. Russia's central bank said Saturday that no incidents were "compromising the data resources" of Russian banks.
Germany's national railway said Saturday departure and arrival display screens at its train stations were affected, but there was no impact on actual train services. Deutsche Bahn said it deployed extra staff to help customers. French carmaker Renault's assembly plant in Slovenia halted production after it was targeted. Radio Slovenia said Saturday the Revoz factory in the southeastern town of Novo Mesto stopped working Friday evening to stop the malware from spreading.
Elsewhere in Europe, the attack hit Spain's Telefonica, a global broadband and telecommunications company, and knocked ticketing offline for Norway's IF Odd, a year-old soccer club. Global 'WannaCry' ransomware cyberattack seeks cash for data cbs The next act for a former top government official is typically a large financial firm, corporation or law firm. And those jobs, as well as teaching, remain strong possibilities for Mr. The same is not true for literary agents and publicists who try to get clients on the speaking circuit — the more controversial the better.
Comey brings with him plenty of controversy. Comey writes a book, he will not be the first F. Freeh, who ran the F. Latimer said that he had not heard back, but that his pitch to the former F. One issue for Mr. Comey may be how much he can discuss the F. He may be even more constrained discussing the investigation into potential ties between the Trump campaign and the Russian hacking into Democratic campaign emails. Soufan, a former F. Comey did not respond to a request for comment.
Not every potential employer would have qualms about hiring Mr. Indeed, being fired by Mr. Trump is a badge of honor in some quarters. Comey might not be a candidate to lobby the current administration, his experience with financial crime and cybersecurity would appeal to most Wall Street firms and corporations, recruitment executives said.
Richard Stein, a partner with the Options Group, which recruits for the financial services industry, said Mr. Comey would be an attractive candidate for a Wall Street firm. Yet a return to a hedge fund is unlikely. For someone who has worked for the largest hedge fund, Bridgewater Associates, anything else might seem like a step down. The culture at Bridgewater, led by a billionaire investor, Ray Dalio, is unusual in that all meetings are videotaped and employees are encouraged to openly question — sometimes even berate — one another. Comey often had the task of investigating internal disputes, some of which became heated.
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Comey has rarely discussed publicly his time at Bridgewater, which Mr. But at his confirmation hearing in , Mr. Comey appeared to find its culture difficult. He describes how he was taken aback initially at being questioned aggressively by a junior employee. Comey, who was brought in part to oversee employee internal investigations, parted on good terms with Mr. On Twitter on Wednesday, Mr. Most law firms would see Mr. Comey as a big get, said Allan Ripp, a public relations consultant for law firms. Comey briefly held a senior research post at Columbia Law School after leaving Bridgewater in January Richman, a Columbia law professor and friend of Mr.
Richman, who has spoken to Mr. Comey several times since he was fired, said it was too soon to say what Mr. Comey would choose to do next. He may not be in any rush.
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Five story lines to watch in Trump-Comey fight thehill. Trump "close to interfering" in criminal inquiry msnbc. The core issue here is not whether Trump is secretly recording his meetings or telephone calls Trump and his White House aides refuse to say whether he tapes his visitors, something he was suspected of doing when he was in business in New York. The real issues are these: These illegal acts cannot be ignored. The question now is whether there exist 22 House Republicans whose loyalty to the United States exceeds their loyalty to the Republican Party, who would join with House Democrats in seeking a bill of impeachment.
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Gary Peters, one of 94 senators who voted to confirm Rosenstein last month. Asked by CNN's Michael Smerconish if he regretted voting to approve Rosenstein, Peters would say only that he is "not pleased with the actions that we've seen. Rosenstein has told officials he was not happy with how Comey's firing unfolded. Since Comey's firing, members of Congress have increased calls to appoint a special prosecutor in the investigation, but Rosenstein doesn't see a need to do so at this point, people familiar with his thinking tell CNN. The exact date and time of Rosenstein's briefing have not been announced.
A malicious child acts out: She was traveling from Norway, where she led a delegation that held an informal meeting with former U. The North responded by pledging to retaliate with a devastating nuclear counterattack, a threat it has made in the past. In recent weeks, North Korea has arrested two American university instructors and laid out what it claimed to be a CIA-backed plot to assassinate Kim. Choi did not address the matter of the detained Americans on Saturday. In Norway, Choi met with former U.
The talks, which cover a range of nuclear, security and bilateral issues, are held intermittently, and are an informal opportunity for the two sides to exchange opinions and concerns. North Korea open to US talks under 'conditions' cbs The projectile launch comes two weeks after a ballistic missile test that South Korean and US officials said failed. North Korea has previously attempted at least nine missile launches on six occasions since US President Donald Trump was inaugurated in January.
Some of those missiles reached the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea. Developing story — more to come. South Korea military reuters. Trump suggests he might drop daily press briefings deseretnews. Searching for truth in Trump-FBI tumult: We're at "the biggest test of our republic" msnbc.
GERMANY — The national railway said Saturday departure and arrival display screens at its train stations were affected, but there was no impact on actual train services. The Russian Interior Ministry, which runs the country's police, confirmed it was among those that fell victim to the "ransomware, " which typically flashes a message demanding payment to release the user's data. Spokeswoman Irina Volk was quoted by the Interfax news agency Saturday as saying the problem had been "localized" and that no information was compromised.
Omer Fatih Sayan said the country's cyber security center is continuing operations against the malicious software. Global cyberattack hits Brazil's systems miamiherald. Cyberattack reportedly hits Renault production cbs Turkey among countries hit in cyberattack cbs Another 10 passengers are in critical condition after the bus tipped over a windy mountain road in the Mugla province, according to regional governor Amir Cicek. Most of those killed were women, another Mugla official told Anadolu. Bus driver, 14 students injured in wreck near St.
Louis The bus flipped over as it tried to make a turn, Cicek said. It plunged 50 feet and hit a car. Photos from the scene showed the bus ripped apart with debris spread across the road. Investigators are working to determine what caused the bus to topple over, but Cicek said its brake system likely failed. The convoy was traveling from Izmir — a coastal province near the Aegean Sea — to Marmaris, a popular tourist destination in the Mugla province.
Tanzanian police say 34 killed when bus carrying young students loses control and crashes With News Wire Services. Dozens headed to Mother's Day event die in Turkish bus crash upi. The fired acting attorney general proved this week that there are still a few in Washington who believe in truth and the law.
Amidst the turmoil of another chaotic week in Trump world, the Comey firing and a pandemic of Washington spinelessness, there was a certain righteous symmetry that occurred Sunday night and Monday afternoon. In his acceptance speech, Obama reflected on those public servants who, in the face of opposition, hold onto their principles and somehow keep alive their resolve, he said: You know the story: Contrary to what he told Pence, Flynn had spoken with Kislyak about lifting sanctions President Obama had imposed on Russia for interfering in our presidential election.
She believed it was unlawful and unconstitutional, and at first was not even officially told by the White House about the ban — she had to find out from the media. Yates was fired for the courage of her convictions. But his dum-dum bullets — not to mention the foolhardy attacks of Republican senators during their questioning of her — could neither intimidate nor shake Yates from her certainty and commitment to the truth. Particularly egregious were freshman Sen. Cruz especially, whose oleaginous condescension has made him pals on both sides of the aisle, tried to run rings around her.
Yates said that off the top of her head she was not, which Cruz thought gave him a hunting license to go for the kill on her travel ban decision. But my concern was not an INA concern here. It, rather, was a constitutional concern, whether or not this — the executive order here violated the Constitution, specifically with the establishment clause and equal protection and due process. Now contrast her behavior with that of Michael Flynn, who, after Obama dismissed him as head of the Defense Intelligence Agency DIA , started a consulting business specializing in intelligence and security, but seemed to come somewhat unglued.
Increasingly paranoid when it came to Islamic extremism especially about Iran and given to dark conspiracy theories, he is under investigation for possible violations of the Foreign Agents Registration Act, and payments received from Russia and agents of the Turkish government.
He placed personal gain above country, and yet Trump kept giving him greater and greater responsibility, even considering him as a possible vice presidential running mate. But so concerned were Obama staff members about Flynn and other Trump staff who allegedly had been in contact with Russia that they withheld from them until the last minute news of the plan to expel 35 Russians believed to be spies and shut down two diplomatic enclaves near New York and Washington.
Even after Sally Yates had delivered the bad news about his lies, Flynn stayed in his job, making personnel and policy decisions at the National Security Council, even sitting in at the Oval Office as Trump spoke with Russian president Vladimir Putin. As I call it, the fake media in many cases. Why was he kept on for those extra 18 days when rational people knew he was poison? No Profiles in Courage there.
Coincidentally, it was another woman — a Republican — Margaret Chase Smith, senator from Maine, who in dared speak out against the outrages of Sen. They will allow Trump to keep making outrageous statements and decisions, permit him to continue batting out his malicious tweets and project onto others the malevolent thoughts and deeds that really are his own.
Together they will continue to malign upstanding Americans like Sally Yates. For now, at least. Because as noted in the book after which the Profile in Courage award is named, a true democracy ultimately recognizes right. We live in hope. Yates did what was right. So shines a good deed in a weary world. Maybe we should demand that she be made special prosecutor or put her in charge of that independent commission to investigate Trump and Russia.
Talk about righteous symmetry. In a time of madness, Sally Yates is a profile in courage salon. What is wrong with you and why is that a partisan issue? At the beginning of May, Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue announced the department would delay an upcoming requirement to reduce the amount of sodium in school meals.
This includes the requirement that students must take fruit and vegetables in the lunch queue, with Perdue arguing many children throw the items away. What are we going to do? Michelle Obama slams Trump administration's school lunch rollback chicago. Despite the fact that cyber attacks are an increasingly common problem, many companies were left vulnerable to the WannaCry ransomware that tore through computers in almost one hundred countries yesterday.
This particular ransomware attack took advantage of a weakness that Microsoft released a critical patch for two months ago. Although this malware cyber attack now appears to be over with, experts have indicated that everyone with a Microsoft product should remain on high alert. Since that time, ransomware has become much more sophisticated. Infected computers may have all files encrypted or even become completely frozen until the ransomware is disabled. According to a report from Bitdefender, U. In fact, a staggering 50 percent of people in the U.
This level of success is more than high enough to encourage malware creators to keep releasing attacks. The better course of action is to back up your computer on a regular basis and utilize security measures, including anti-malware software, a firewall and anti-virus protection. Additionally, if a patch is released to close a known security vulnerability, make sure you update your computer immediately.
Internet security experts worldwide rushed to thwart the latest ransomware attack yesterday. However, it was a year-old British man who goes by the handle MalwareTech who found a kill switch hidden inside WannaCry. Reportedly, the ransomware was designed to keep pinging a specific web address.
If the domain became active, this would tell the ransomware to stop the attack. As soon as the domain was activated, he began seeing thousands of hits per minute. Before it was clear to security experts or the media what was happening, the WannaCry ransomware was completely halted. This led to some initial confusion, including the misconception that the domain actually started the attack. Once this was cleared up, MalwareTech was dubbed a hero by the media.
MalwareTech discussing his recent exploits on Twitter. My blog post is done! Now you can read the full story of yesterday's events here: MalwareTech also warned that the perpetrators behind the WannaCry attack are likely to rewrite the code to exclude the kill switch and start over again. This could happen quickly, so all Windows users need to be on high alert. In the meantime, install the latest security patches and double-check your existing security methods. All of this could have been avoided if the proper precautions had been taken, and the same is likely to be true for the next ransomware attack.
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All across the country, people are jailed before their trial for almost every kind of charge, even charges that pose no apparent danger to society. Money bail can amount to hundreds of thousands of dollars for felonies. For misdemeanors, a third of those offered bail in New York City in , for example, were expected to pay a thousand dollars. Inability to pay bail causes tens of thousands of people to sit in jails not as punishment for a crime, but as punishment for being poor, as they wait for a trial.
Since the number of incarcerated women has grown by percent. This makes sense as men are incarcerated at a much higher rate, and are more likely to be racially profiled. The solutions need to be unique as well. This state of crisis is exacerbated by anti-Black racism among other forms of systemic exploitation — Black women are incarcerated at four times the rate of white women, for example.
These chosen children are similarly at risk when a mother is unable to provide support. When women are suffering inside jails, their communities suffer outside of those jails. The possibilities of these communities are vast and varied, but they are stunted by the simple fact that bail is not something everyone can afford or should have to pay. And all mothers who rely on Medicaid and other forms of affordable health care run the risk of losing everything, including their ability to stay healthy enough to work and feed their families.
This is the net that drowns so many mothers and results in them languishing in jail cells. By expanding the scope of our understanding of mass incarceration, we reaffirm that all people deserve to be free from structural oppression. Everyone deserves to be free. Is your husband your child or your partner? The stadium court at the Madrid Masters is called the "Caja Magica, " which is Spanish for "magic box.
Nadal was transported back to the halcyon days when he was the undisputed King of Clay and master of all he surveyed. He clobbered Novak Djokovic , to reach the final of the Madrid Masters. It's the most lopsided win Nadal has had in this match rivalry with Djokovic since he tagged his Serbian nemesis , in the Monte Carlo final.
Of greater interest with the French Open where Djokovic is the defending champion right around the corner: This was Nadal's first win over Djokovic since the Roland Garros final of Nadal woke up Saturday having lost seven in a row to Djokovic over the course of almost three years. Sure, Nadal was toting a match clay-court winning streak into this semi. But he hadn't even won a set in those past seven matches. Ever the sensible realist, Nadal told the press before the semi: I think I've done my homework. Tomorrow is a day to try to give my best.
Hopefully I'll be ready for that. He broke Djokovic at love in the very first game, and it was off to the races. He fired his forehand with as much snap and zing as ever. His movement was superb. Nadal can backpedal faster than some guys sprint forward. He was able to dictate, even when Djokovic pried open the court and located Nadal's backhand. Nadal's expressive face told the story throughout the match, revealing variations on determination and confidence. A nice change from that furrowed brow and flickering doubt that so often danced in his eyes during his recent slump.
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Andy Murray is not having the kind of year we expected, but at least the Scot has one thing going for him: Nadal faltered just once, and you could almost put that down to disbelief he could beat Djokovic so handily. Serving for the match in final game, Nadal made an atrocious error to waste his second match point. He made another one to give Djokovic a break point -- just his second of the entire day. But Nadal calmed down and reeled off three straight points to end the match in 1 hour, 38 minutes. His 20 winners were a testament to his aggressive play throughout.
This match may well be a game-changer. As far as Djokovic and his continuing decline goes, this loss can't necessarily be attributed to his recent decision to fire his entire support team. But if the housecleaning truly freed him up, it was only to continue losing with fewer associates to blame -- or turn to for help.
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As for Nadal, he's injury-free and playing with the confidence and verve he last felt when he finished No. There's nothing magical about the box Djokovic finds himself in, but Nadal is more than happy to have found his time machine. Rafael Nadal handles Novak Djokovic in Madrid semifinals upi. California Highway Patrol say they were on patrol just before 2: Saturday and came across a Toyota Highlander going about miles per hour on I near Cutting Boulevard.
Officers tried to stop the car when it suddenly hit a motorcycle and kept driving. A brief chase ensued but police eventually caught up to the Toyota and pulled the driver over. When police asked the driver to identify himself they discovered that the driver was intoxicated. The motorcyclist died at the scene and has not been identified. Motorcyclist killed in northeastern Oklahoma collision news9. President Donald Trump has become distrustful of some of his White House staff, heavily reliant on a handful of family members and long-time aides, and furious that the White House's attempts to quell the firestorm over the FBI and congressional Russia investigations only seem to add more fuel.
Mr Trump's frustrations came to a head this week after four months in office, with the firing of FBI director James Comey, who was overseeing the probe into his campaign's possible ties to Russia's election meddling. Fearful that his own team would leak the decision, Mr Trump kept key staff in the dark as he pondered the dramatic move. The communications staff charged with explaining the decision to the American people had an hour's notice. Chief strategist Steve Bannon learned on television, according to three White House officials, though a person close to Mr Bannon disputed that.
When the White House's defence of the move failed to meet his ever-changing expectations, Mr Trump tried to take over himself. But he wound up creating new headaches for the White House, including with an apparent threat to Mr Comey. For a White House accustomed to bouts of chaos, Mr Trump's handling of Mr Comey's firing could have serious and long-lasting implications.
Already Mr Trump's decision appears to have emboldened the Senate intelligence committee investigating Russia's election interference and the president's associates, with lawmakers announcing a subpoena for former national security adviser Michael Flynn. Mr Comey's allies also quickly made clear they would defend him against attacks from Trump, including disputing the president's assertion that Mr Comey told Mr Trump he was not personally under investigation.
Several people close to the president say his reliance on a small cadre of advisers as he mulled firing Mr Comey reflects his broader distrust of many of his own staff. He leans heavily on daughter Ivanka Trump and son-in-law Jared Kushner, as well as Hope Hicks, his trusted campaign spokeswoman and Keith Schiller, his longtime bodyguard.
Mr Schiller was among those Trump consulted about Mr Comey and was entrusted by the president to deliver a letter informing the director of his firing. Trump confidants say Mr Bannon has been marginalised on major decisions, including Mr Comey's firing, after clashing with Jared Kushner. And while Mr Trump praised chief of staff Reince Priebus after the House passed a health care bill last week, associates say the president has continued to raise occasional questions about Mr Priebus' leadership in the West Wing.
Mr Trump spent most of the week out of sight, a marked change from a typically jam-packed schedule that often includes multiple on-camera events per day. Even when aides moved ahead on an executive order creating a voter fraud commission - a presidential pet project that some advisers thought they had successfully shelved - Mr Trump signed the directive in private.
Mr Trump is said to be seething over the flood of leaks pouring out of the White House and into news reports. He has viewed even senior advisers suspiciously, including Mr Bannon and Mr Priebus, when stories about internal White House drama land in the press. A dozen White House officials and others close to Mr Trump detailed the president's decision-making and his mood on the condition of anonymity in order to discuss private conversations and deliberations.
Much of Mr Trump's ire has been focused on the communications team, all of whom were caught off guard by Mr Comey's sacking. He increasingly sees himself as the White House's only effective spokesman, according to multiple people who have spoken with him. By week's end, he was musing about cutting back on the White House's televised press briefings. Mr Trump is mulling expanding the communications team and has eyed hiring producers from Fox News, according to one White House official.
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White House officials had hoped last week's House vote would give the president a much-needed burst of momentum and infuse new energy into efforts to fully overhaul the "Obamacare" health law and pass a massive tax reform package. Aides were also eager for Trump's first foreign trip, a high-stakes blitz through the Middle East and Europe. But the blowback from Comey's firing left the White House reeling once again. Trump's visible anger and erratic tweets prompted a reporter to ask press secretary Sean Spicer on Friday if the president was "out of control".
Defiant soldiers blocked access to Ivory Coast's second-largest city on Saturday after firing guns into the air throughout the night, according to an AFP journalist at the scene. Rebellious soldiers had already taken to the streets Friday in Bouake, the economic capital of Abidjan and another city demanding pay increases. The city of Bouake was the epicentre of a mutiny in January by former rebel soldiers who had been integrated into the army, which triggered months of unrest.
The soldiers forced the police who normally control the four main access points to Bouake to flee, before taking up positions and blocking all traffic into the city. They were also taking up positions elsewhere in the city, and banks and stores remained closed Saturday morning. The situation remained calm however in Abidjan on Saturday, a day after the rebelling soldiers had surrounded the military's headquarters in the city.
Late Friday, General Sekou Toure, chief of staff of Ivory Coast's armed forces, warned of "severe disciplinary sanctions" for the soldiers. The January mutiny saw the government promise to pay the soldiers 12 million CFA francs 18, euros each, with an initial payment of five million francs that month. The remainder was to be paid this month, according to rebel sources. The world's top cocoa provider, Ivory Coast has an army numbering around 22, soldiers, among them many former rebels who were integrated into the armed forces after years of conflict.
Last year, the government unveiled an ambitious plan to modernise the military, part of which would involve the departure of several thousand men, particularly ex-rebels, who will not be replaced. Shontrell Murphy, 30, was charged with cruelty to children after admitting she hit him, local Fox affiliate WBRC reported. Cops found shards of the handwritten card on the floor, the news channel reported.
Their bodies were found inside a truck outside of the capital of Venezuela. It was reported that the ransom was allegedly paid. However, both men were found dead later that night. Herrera wrote a message back to those who sent their condolences and support following the gruesome slayings. The family and I appreciate your kindness. Our only hope is that the tragic assassination of our young nephew, Reinaldo and his colleague, Fabrizio will serve to mitigate the terrible carnage and murders that are committed against our youth in Venezuela. The Electoral Results must be respected.
The Communist Dictatorship must go. They are being met with tear gas and rubber bullets. Millions of Venezuelans suffer from food and medicine shortage. There has been no official data published in a year. Thank you so much for all your thoughtful messages. On May 1,, wages went up 60 percent to the equivalent of around a dollar a day on the black market exchange rate. Juan Miguel Matheus, an opposition congressman in the state of Carabobo, said at least 69 people there had been jailed by the military since early April. All occurred when demonstrators began taking to the streets to call for new elections, according to Penal Forum, a legal group assisting those arrested.
Another group monitoring cases, Provea, counted at least 90 people jailed by the military. The groups have contended that Venezuela has never used the military courts against so many civilians this way outside of wartime. Designer Carolina Herrera's nephew killed after abduction in Venezuela foxnews. NBC heard from the fans, went back in time and changed history! Timeless is getting a Season 2! The show cast Abigail Spencer as a college history professor who travels into the past alongside a soldier played by Matt Lanter and engineer played by Malcolm Barrett to track a master criminal played by Goran Visnjic , who has stolen a time machine.
Co-creator Eric Kripke said Wednesday he and the Timeless family were "surprised and upset" to learn the show had been canceled. Rudd said the number of affected N. The opposition Labour Party criticized the government sharply on Saturday for what it called negligence in not updating N. Rudd conceded that the N. For some, her words offered little comfort.
So intrinsic is the N. On Saturday at Royal London, a world-renowned teaching hospital in the Bethnal Green neighborhood, patients expressed a mix of frustration, resignation and gratitude as the medical staff worked to provide care while still grappling with the cyberattack. Welcome signs in the hospital greet visitors in English, Chinese and Arabic. Zahid Ahmed, 23, a local shopkeeper whose son was born at the hospital, said the cyberattack was an assault on the social fabric of the neighborhood, where the hospital was part of life, from cradle to grave.
Several nurses said they were struggling to obtain blood test results. Members of the urology clinic said they were unable to work because the computers were down. A man with a cast and crutches said he had been turned away. Trust, which runs the hospital, said in a statement that it was dealing with a major information technology disruption and apologized for any delays. It said outpatient appointments on Saturday had been canceled. We all pay into the N. What on earth is going on in this country?
Still, some patients were worried about their records. Amanda Wilson, 64, who went to St. What do I do then? Krishna Chinthapalli, a senior resident at the National Hospital for Neurology and Neurosurgery in London, who predicted a cyberattack on the N. He said in the interview that many of the N. He warned that if hospitals paid the ransoms, it could lead to a slippery slope of other attacks.
The story, which the as-yet-unnamed security whiz wrote up in a blog post on Saturday, is an example of the driven-to-puzzle-things-out mentality typical of people drawn to cybersecurity. Because nobody's really in charge of the Internet, it's messy and wonderful in equal proportion, he said. The ransomware appears to have first appeared close to 3: ET on Friday, according to researchers at Cisco Umbrella. Within 12 hours it had been stopped in its tracks. For the analyst, who for security reasons has chosen to only be identified by his online blog name of MalwareTech, things hit after lunch on Friday when he noticed all the fuss about a global ransomware attack and decided to investigate.
His day job is as a security researcher at Los Angeles-based Kryptos Logic, but he was actually supposed to be on vacation this week so he hadn't been plugged in. Although only 22, he is known in the close-knit world of cybersecurity as someone who's good at "taking down big ugly things that are spreading fast, " in the words of Ryan Kalember, vice president for cybersecurity at Proofpoint, a Sunnyvale, Calif. First credit to actually getting a sample of the malicious software code appears to go to Kafeine, a security researcher who doesn't give press interviews and only goes by his screen name, but who works for Proofpoint.
Malware Tech called him "a good friend and fellow researcher" in his blog post and noted that Kafeine passed him the sample so he could begin to reverse engineer it to see how it did what it was doing. One of the first things MalwareTech noticed was that as soon as it installed itself on a new machine, the malware tried to send a message to an unregistered Internet address, or domain name. He promptly registered that domain, so he could see what it was up to.
This was at around 3 p. The registration wasn't done on a whim, he noted. However, in doing so, MalwareTech had inadvertently stopped the entire global attack in its tracks, though it took him and others awhile longer to realize it. They would have been able to stop the spread of the software simply by registering and setting up the Web address — except MalwareTech got there first. As a final test, he first ran the malware in a closed environment that was connected to the registered website and got nothing.
Then he ran it again after modifying the host system so that the connection would be unsuccessful, and the ransomware promptly took it over. The failure of the ransomware to run the first time and then the subsequent success on the second mean that we had in fact prevented the spread of the ransomware and prevented it ransoming any new computer since the registration of the domain, " he wrote. Darien Huss, a security researcher at Proofpoint who'd been helping MalwareTech with the analysis, tweeted at ET that the unregistered domain had been registered and the malware had stopped spreading.
While this particular variant of the malware has been stopped, security experts are quick to point out that all that the criminals behind it would need to do is rewrite the code to either ping a different domain or remove that domain check and send it out. This makes it all the more important that computers and networks quickly install the Windows patches that fix the problem that allowed the code to so easily spread in the first place.
Microsoft issued that patch on March 14 but clearly many systems had not installed the crucial new software. After a long and fruitful day, MalwareTech suggested that people do just that, then wrote, "Now I should probably sleep. Cornelia Reynolds said in a Friday statement that her son's voice "will be heard" and she urged parents to tell their children to seek help if they are being hurt. People need to know the truth and help fix this epidemic in our society by spreading awareness and speaking up. It happened in January. Also, the Cincinnati school district has Reynolds' attorneys say she didn't learn her son, Gabriel Taye, was bullied until they saw an email written by a Cincinnati police detective that describes the scene outside a boys' bathroom where the attorneys say Gabriel was knocked unconscious.
He hanged himself two days later at his home. The Cincinnati school district says the boy told staff he had fainted and never said he had been bullied or assaulted. Hamilton County Prosecutor Joe Deters said his office is looking into possible charges in the case. The Hamilton County coroner said earlier that she is reopening the investigation into Gabriel's suicide. Cincinnati Public Schools on Friday released copies of a choppy minute-long video that shows one boy bullying other students.
The mother's attorneys say he pushed Gabriel into a wall, knocking him unconscious. The release also noted that police reviewed the video and no charges were filed. Cincinnati boy who killed himself never said he was bullied foxnews. The most startling information in this poll for Donald Trump is that the majority of voters, Republicans and Democrats alike, want Elections to turn out a Democratic Congress. Additionally, both Republican and Democrat voters were asked to list the first word they thought of when it comes to the president. If more than five individuals in the poll gave those words independently, those words in reference to Donald Trump were recorded in the poll.
Additional bad news for Donald Trump in this approval rating today is that he is losing his base. White voters that have no college degree and are male are leaning away from Donald Trump more and more. When it comes to temperament, 66 percent of those polled said he is not level-headed. But 62 percent feel he is a strong person. Today, that base is 48 percent approval rating. Fifty-four percent of those polled in both parties said they want the Democrats to take control of the United States House of Representatives.
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