With 15,000 Visitors And Big Sales, Here Are Some Highlights From Singapore Yacht Show 2018
Singapore Yacht ShowBack in Singapore for its 8th edition, the annual Singapore Yacht Show (SYS) took place between April 12 and 15. Filled with yacht launches, superyacht displays, innovative accessories and a slew of cocktail parties, the luxurious event is often the highlight of social calendars. According to SYS, yachting is enjoying increased popularity in Asia as various ultra-high net worth individuals from the region continue to express more interest in owning one. And with this growing interest and support for Asia's yachting industry, this year's Singapore Yacht Show did not disappoint its increasing pool of attendees. Big yacht sales
Source:Forbes
April 24, 2018 01:52 UTC
Attorney: California police shot unarmed black man 10 times
Lawyers for the family of an unarmed black man killed by police in a busy Southern California parking lot said Monday that an autopsy found he was shot 10 times and died from choking on his own blood as police delayed getting him medical help. Barstow police officers fatally shot Yarber on April 5 in a Walmart parking lot in the Mojave Desert city, about halfway between Los Angeles and Las Vegas. On April 5, officers answering a report of a suspicious vehicle in the Walmart parking lot learned that the car was registered to Yarber, Ramirez said. Merritt disputes the account of the shooting by police, saying Yarber's car was barely moving. There were three others in the car with Yarber, a father of three, when police tried to stop him.
Source:ABC News
April 24, 2018 01:19 UTC
Republicans are Dominant But Still Nervous About the Arizona Special Election
Results of the special election for Arizona’s Eighth Congressional District will be posted live starting around 11 p.m. Tuesday, Eastern. +20 Arizona’s Eighth District +15 +10 +5 2008 2012 2016 REPUBLICAN DEMOCRATIC U.S. +5 +10 +25 pct. U.S. +10 Sources: Federal Election Commission and DailyKos | Note: The margins for Arizona’s Eighth District for 2008 were calculated based on its current boundaries. In 2016, Hillary Clinton, a Democrat, won the popular vote, but Donald J. Trump, a Republican, won the electoral vote. The Republican National Committee and the National Republican Congressional Committee have together spent more than $900,000 to boost Ms. Lesko.
Source:New York Times
April 24, 2018 00:56 UTC
The Latest: Bush hoping to get to Maine despite illness
The Latest on the hospitalization of former President George H.W. Bush (all times local):8:20 p.m.Bush family spokesman Jim McGrath says 93-year-old former President George H.W. Trump tweeted Monday evening: "Sending healing thoughts of strength, along with prayers, for President George HW Bush tonight." A family spokesman says former President George H.W. ———6 p.m.A family spokesman says former President George H.W.
Source:ABC News
April 24, 2018 00:45 UTC
Cops: Mom was turning on safety when gun fired, killing girl
Investigators say a woman who accidentally shot and killed her 2-year-old daughter at an Ohio hotel was trying to turn on the gun's safety when it fired. Wickliffe police told Cleveland.com on Monday that the shooting is still under investigation, but it appears the mother was putting the gun away Friday night when it fired. The bullet went through a mattress and struck 2-year-old Laila Johnson in the chest. Three other children were in the room at the hotel outside Cleveland but were not injured. Police say the mother had a valid concealed carry permit.
Source:ABC News
April 24, 2018 00:45 UTC
George H.W. Bush Hospitalized for Blood Infection
A day after burying his wife, Barbara, President George H.W. Bush was hospitalized in Houston on Sunday morning with a blood infection, according to a Bush family spokesman. Mr. Bush, 93, was responding to treatment at Houston Methodist Hospital and “appears to be recovering,” family spokesman Jim McGrath said. Barbara Bush was laid to rest...
Source:Wall Street Journal
April 24, 2018 00:38 UTC
Toronto van crash suspect ID'd as police won't rule out terror possibility
Police in Toronto identified the suspected driver of a van that rammed into a crowd of pedestrians earlier Monday, and said they would not rule out terrorism as a possible motive. "We don’t rule out anything," Toronto Police Service Chief Mark Saunders said in a Monday evening news conference. Alex Shaker, who witnessed the incident, said the van was speeding down the street before it mounted the curb and plowed into people. "We're still looking for more witnesses," Saunders said. Asked for additional details on Minassian, Saunders deflected.
Source:Fox News
April 24, 2018 00:37 UTC
George H.W. Bush is hospitalized with blood infection
Barbara Bush was laid to rest Saturday in a ceremony attended by her husband and former presidents Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, George W. Bush and their wives, along with current First Lady Melania Trump. She was 92, and she and her husband had been married for 73 years — the longest presidential marriage in U.S. history.
Source:Los Angeles Times
April 24, 2018 00:23 UTC
Senate to postpone confirmation hearing for Ronny Jackson to head Veterans Affairs, White House officials told
In recent days, fresh concerns arose about Jackson’s management of the White House medical office, said the officials, who declined to provide details. Three White House officials said Monday that they worried the nomination was in peril. In recent days, Isakson called the White House to express his concern that Jackson was unqualified, White House officials said, and vouched instead for his ally and former top aide Thomas Bowman, VA’s deputy secretary. Jackson is well liked among senior White House officials, who had worked with him on a daily basis. “He was walking into an ambush,” a veterans advocate close to the White House said of the Senate hearing.
Source:Washington Post
April 24, 2018 00:20 UTC
Fox News host Sean Hannity's real estate holdings draw scrutiny
"It is ironic that I am being attacked for investing my personal money in communities that badly need such investment and in which, I am sure, those attacking me have not invested their money," Hannity said in a statement on his website. "The fact is, these are investments that I do not individually select, control, or know the details about; except that obviously I believe in putting my money to work in communities that otherwise struggle to receive such support."
Source:Los Angeles Times
April 24, 2018 00:11 UTC
Trump calls the Russia lawsuit ‘funny.’ He once sued to prove he wasn’t an orangutan.
“So funny,” President Trump remarked of the Democratic National Committee’s lawsuit against the Trump campaign, the Russian government and WikiLeaks. Almost as funny as when Trump sued Palm Beach County, Fla., because of the “malicious” jet noise above Mar-a-Lago. Or when Trump sued Bill Maher after the comedian challenged Trump to prove he was not the spawn of an orangutan. Or when Trump sued neighbors of the Trump National Doral Miami for vandalizing palm trees, or when he sued the town of Palm Beach because it denied him an 80-foot flagpole. Trump sued New York, he sued New Jersey, he sued Scotland and he sued a former Miss Pennsylvania.
Source:Washington Post
April 24, 2018 00:11 UTC
For Melania Trump, the shroud of invisibility lifts during a week of public attention
After hosting the Japanese prime minister and his wife at Trump's Mar-a-Lago compound in Florida last week, Melania Trump attended the Saturday funeral of former First Lady Barbara Bush in Houston; the president stayed away. Before the service she smiled and chatted with former President Obama, whom her husband has scorned for years, and, again smiling, joined in a formal picture with all of the former presidents and first ladies who attended the funeral.
Source:Los Angeles Times
April 23, 2018 23:48 UTC
Opinion | How the Human Rights Movement Failed
Instead, those who care about human rights need to take seriously the forces that lead so many people to vote in majoritarian strongmen in the first place. In short, human rights activism made itself at home in a plutocratic world. The signature group of that era, Amnesty International, focused narrowly on imprisonment and torture; similarly, Human Rights Watch rejected advocating economic and social rights. In the 1990s, after the Cold War ended, both human rights and pro-market policies reached the apogee of their prestige. But a neoliberal program that had arisen under the Chilean dictator Augusto Pinochet swept the continent along with democracy, while the human rights movement did not learn enough of a new interest in distributional fairness to keep inequality from spiking.
Source:New York Times
April 23, 2018 23:48 UTC
Corker chokes up recalling Democrat's vote change on Pompeo in committee
Washington (CNN) Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker held back tears when describing to reporters how he felt about Democratic Sen. Chris Coons' decision to vote "present" during an important committee vote. "I, in particular, want to thank Sen. Coons, for displaying the statesmanship that I've been accustomed to seeing in the Senate," Corker, a Tennessee Republican, said while choking up. "And I'm proud of him, I'm proud of our committee and I'm happy for the American people. If the Delaware Democrat hadn't voted "present," Corker had said he'd hold the vote open until Isakson returned to Capitol Hill, which would be around 11 p.m. In order to speed things up, Coons -- having already publicly voted against Pompeo's nomination -- voted present to move the nomination out of committee.
Source:CNN
April 23, 2018 23:48 UTC
Scramble for answers as Ronny Jackson allegations threaten to upend nomination
Washington (CNN) Republicans and Democrats on the Senate Veterans Affairs Committee are raising concerns about allegations involving Rear Adm. Ronny Jackson, President Donald Trump's nominee to lead the Department of Veterans Affairs, and are reviewing them to determine if they are substantial enough to upend his nomination. The sources say the committee is in talks to delay Wednesday's confirmation hearing as they try to figure out the allegations. A White House spokesman did not immediately respond to a request for comment. Two Republican sources with direct knowledge of the situation say the White House is aware that both Democratic and Republican lawmakers are looking into potential problems. Republican lawmakers and aides on the committee say they are also grappling with the allegations, trying to assess what they mean for Jackson's nomination to the post.
Source:CNN
April 23, 2018 23:48 UTC