Yemen to probe alleged interrogation abuses by UAE, US
It said the investigation would focus on areas liberated by government forces from Shiite rebels known as the Houthis and their allies. The reports of the abuses were revealed in an AP investigation published Thursday. The investigation detailed a network of secret prisons across southern Yemen where hundreds are detained in the hunt for al-Qaida militants. American defense officials said U.S. forces have interrogated some detainees in Yemen but denied any participation in, or knowledge of, human rights abuses. The 18 lock-ups mentioned in the AP investigation are run by the UAE and by Yemeni forces it created, according to accounts from former detainees, families of prisoners, civil rights lawyers and Yemeni military officials.
Source:Washington Post
June 24, 2017 13:16 UTC
3rd journalist dies after Mosul blast
Story highlights Reporters had been accompanying Iraqi army forces in MosulTroops have been working to oust ISIS from the city(CNN) A third journalist has died from injuries sustained in a mine blast this week in the Iraqi city of Mosul, the French government and her employer said Saturday. Her colleague, Stéphane Villeneuve, and Kurdish journalist Bakhtiar Haddad died Tuesday in the same incident. "Too many headstones at the cemetery of the great reporters," Christophe Deloire, secretary general of Reporters Without Borders, said in a tweet. The journalists were with Iraqi army forces in an ISIS-held area of the Ras Al-Jadah district of Mosul when the blast occurred. They were on assignment in Mosul for the France 2 TV channel's current affairs program "Envoyé Spécial," the monitoring group Reporters Without Borders said.
Source:CNN
June 24, 2017 13:07 UTC
Top scholars rise above gang violence in suburban NY town
Two fellow students at Brentwood High School were beaten to death in the street. The corpses of three more were discovered in secluded spots — all victims of suspected gang violence. "I've had so many people say, 'Oh, do you have to carry a knife or a gun to school?' Although the community has contended with gang violence for years, the murders that galvanized the community were those of 15-year-old Nisa Mickens and 16-year-old Kayla Cuevas. Authorities said Kayla had been feuding with gang members but Nisa was merely in the wrong place at the wrong time.
Source:Fox News
June 24, 2017 13:07 UTC
Pelosi's Pity Problem
Pelosi is an excellent vote-wrangler and fundraiser, and she has a long and honorable record of defending a certain type of Democratic politics. When Pelosi sees poverty or discrimination, she sees the people being affected as unfortunate victims who need and deserve a helping hand. But more fundamentally, they represent a lack of freedom ― freedom that someone, or some system, has taken from you. Poverty as a lack of freedom connects with a larger problem: More and more of us are having our liberties stolen. Acknowledging Democrats have been working from a pity-based value system ― and then pulling it out root and branch ― is essential.
Source:Huffington Post
June 24, 2017 13:07 UTC
Ruth Negga stands tall in the year of 'Preacher,' 'Loving' and an Oscar nom
Says Negga, “I’ve always been interested in ‘the other’ — maybe because I’ve always been ‘the other’ wherever I’ve lived. It allows for a high level of trust and much better performances.”As for playing Mildred Loving, Negga says less was more in conveying the emotion and pain of Loving’s plight. The actor was a fan of the AMC show before joining it, so he'd seen his favorite characters get killed off. CAPTION The actor was a fan of the AMC show before joining it, so he'd seen his favorite characters get killed off. The actor was a fan of the AMC show before joining it, so he'd seen his favorite characters get killed off.
Source:Los Angeles Times
June 24, 2017 12:56 UTC
Health Care Must Remain A Right
In capsule form, do we wish to see health care remain a RIGHT for all Americans, regardless of socioeconomic status, or only a privilege for the wealthy, i.e., for those that can afford to access it ? But let’s go back to this notion of whether or not health care should, or continue to, be a right. Two articles dating back nine years among scores are instructive, “Is Health Care a Right and Should It Be?”; and “The Moral Imperative: Health Care as an American Right”. Health care is certainly not a constitutional right for nothing in the Constitution sets this forth. We also know the Supreme Court has interpreted the 8th Amendment’s “cruel and unusual punishment” clause to require prisoners be guaranteed the right to health care.
Source:Huffington Post
June 24, 2017 12:56 UTC
Scientists make water bottles the old-fashioned way to see if they were toxic to early Californians
Water and oil were stored in these bottles for PAH analysis. Team members used historical records to figure out exactly how water bottles were made by the island residents. While anthropologists don’t think the island residents used oil, they did eat oily fish that could have been kept in bitumen-coated vessels or eaten on bitumen-coated plates. That exceeds the EPA’s safe limit, which means that anyone who used bitumen to make bottles or boats might have been harmed by breathing contaminated smoke. Anthropologists believe that the island residents used bitumen as body paint, as casts for injuries, and as a general, all-purpose glue.
Source:Los Angeles Times
June 24, 2017 12:56 UTC
New Albums From Nickelback, Lorde & Fleet Foxes Start Inside The Top 10 In The U.K.
U.K. soul singer Rag’N’Bone Man is a non-mover in fourth place with Human, which originally started at No. 5 in the U.K., a fair showing for somebody still so early into what promises to be a history-making career. The record was fronted by lead single “Green Light,” which peaked at No. 4 in the country and her debut single “Royals” reigned supreme, just as it did here in the States as well. Adios, the final studio effort from country singer-songwriter Glen Campbell, is down just three pegs in its second week, descending from No.
Source:Forbes
June 24, 2017 12:50 UTC
Massachusetts store clerk fights off armed robber
Azhar Ali says a man walked into his convenience store in Lynn, Massachusetts Wednesday evening demanding his hard-earned money. “I stand on my feet for 10 hours I work hard I won't give him money like that,” said Ali. "He just bring the knife here and tried to put me here and so I said "what's up?" “First, I was confused then I said, "you know what, I'm not going to give him money,” said Ali. He pushes the would-be robber out of his store and onto Market Street.
Source:Fox News
June 24, 2017 12:45 UTC
Remembering The UpStairs Lounge Fire That Killed 32 LGBTQ People
ADVERTISEMENTSaturday marks the 44th anniversary of the UpStairs Lounge arson, a flash fire that killed 32 people in the New Orleans gay bar on June 24, 1973. “The crowd that was at the UpStairs Lounge, they were all friends. AP Screenshot A victim is stretchered away from the scene of the UpStairs Lounge fire. Ronnie Rosenthal, UpStairs Lounge fire survivorLater that night, Rosenthal and his friends were taken to the city morgue to identify some of the bodies. Bettmann via Getty Images Investigators examine the charred ruins of the UpStairs Lounge bar.
Source:Huffington Post
June 24, 2017 12:45 UTC
South Korea Leader Hopes for Unified Olympic Team With the North
If they form a unified team for the Pyeongchang Olympics, it would be a major milestone in inter-Korean relations. South Korean officials hope such a feat would help create a thaw on the Korean Peninsula after years of tensions spurred by the North’s nuclear and missile tests. In South Korea, broadcasts of soccer matches are interspersed with English terms like “goal post,” “penalty kick” and “midfield.” In the North, where state linguists abhor foreign terminology, athletes use Korean translations not readily understandable to South Korean players. Moon welcomed the North Korean taekwondo team to the South, which hopes to send its demonstration team to an International Taekwondo Federation competition to be held in Pyongyang, the North Korean capital, in September. He said the two taekwondo federations’ cooperation should inspire the two Koreas to work for a joint Olympic team.
Source:New York Times
June 24, 2017 12:31 UTC
Will Gardner Again Vote Against Planned Parenthood?
Part of that, of course, has meant that he’s opposed and vilified Planned Parenthood. After he voted to defund Planned Parenthood two years ago, Gardner said,“We voted to take the money from Planned Parenthood and distribute it to the community health clinics around the state of Colorado,” Gardner told KNUS 710-AM’s Dan Caplis in 2015. Woman go to Planned Parenthood clinics for specific and understandable reasons, like privacy, trust, and convenience. And even though no federal funds are used for abortions at Planned Parenthood, they are available. Gardner may try to say his opposition to Planned Parenthood isn’t about opposition to Planned Parenthood, just like he tried to say, during his last election campaign, that his support of abortion-ban legislation wasn’t support for an abortion ban.
Source:Huffington Post
June 24, 2017 12:31 UTC
Trump administration opposing bid for syphilis study museum
The Trump administration opposes a bid to use unclaimed money from a legal settlement over the government's infamous Tuskegee syphilis study to fund a museum honoring victims of the research project. Fred Gray, a civil rights attorney who represented men in the study and made the funding request in 2016, declined comment on the government's position. The Justice Department said sending the money to the museum would "fundamentally alter the terms of the agreement." Some descendants of the men have said they support using the settlement money to help the museum, while others like the idea of a new memorial at Tuskegee University, where the study was based. A judge's decision could be a step toward ending the study participants' class-action lawsuit, first filed in 1973.
Source:ABC News
June 24, 2017 12:30 UTC
The high-tech jobs that created India’s gilded generation are disappearing
(Jason Alden/Bloomberg) (Jason Alden/Jason Alden/Bloomberg)They were going to be India’s gilded generation. The Forum for IT Employees (FITE) estimates that 60,000 workers have lost their jobs in the past few months. Vinod said companies are masking layoffs as voluntary resignations based on poor performance ratings. This, she said, was crucial in an industry where rapid technological advancement quickly makes many jobs and skill sets obsolete. Amid the rumpus over jobs, Ravi Shankar Prasad, minister of electronics and information technology met with industry leaders June 18.
Source:Washington Post
June 24, 2017 12:22 UTC
Trump's previous promises on health care
Story highlights On Thursday, the Republican Senate released its plan to overhaul America's health care systemThe bill doesn't quite align with the promises Trump made on the campaign trailWashington (CNN) President Donald Trump has made some grand promises on health care. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell this week revealed Senate's long-awaited plan to reshape America's health care system -- the fruit of many weeks of work entirely behind closed doors by a group of 13 Republican senators that were selected by the majority leader. Trump has already thrown his weight behind the plan, tweeting: "I am very supportive of the Senate #HealthcareBill. Look forward to making it really special!" As the Senate is expected to vote on the latest iteration of the GOP plan next week, we're tracking what Trump has promised when it comes to health care, from the campaign trail to the Oval Office.
Source:CNN
June 24, 2017 12:11 UTC