Clippers trade Wesley Johnson, waive Jawun Evans to get roster to 15
“I don't think Avery lacks confidence, so I'm not that concerned. I think that's a group of guys, there are guys who kind of lose their confidence and you try your best to get them to the foul line or something like that, but I don't think Avery has that issue.”
Source:Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2018 20:06 UTC
Md. lawmaker who came out as bisexual changes party affiliation
Meagan Simonaire, announces she is switching party affiliation from Republican to Democrat on Monday. Darryl Barnes, left, and Bonnie Cullison, and Kathleen Matthews, far left, who chairs the Maryland Democratic Party. (Brian Witte/AP)Meagan Simonaire, the state lawmaker who came out as bisexual during a speech in the House of Delegates earlier this year, changed her party affiliation on Monday from Republican to Democrat. “President Trump regularly attacks minorities, women and anyone who does not agree with him,” she said at a news conference, joined by several Democratic lawmakers and Maryland Democratic Party chair Kathleen Matthews. Mental-health providers who attempt to change a minor’s gender identification or sexual orientation are now subject to discipline by the state’s licensing board.
Source:Washington Post
October 15, 2018 20:04 UTC
Facebook To Ban Voter Misinformation In Upcoming U.S. Elections
MENLO PARK, Calif. (Reuters) - Facebook Inc (FB.O) will ban false information about voting requirements and fake reports of violence or long lines at polling stations in the run-up to and during next month’s U.S. midterm elections, company executives told Reuters, the latest effort to reduce voter manipulation on its service. The new policy was disclosed by Facebook’s cyber security policy chief, Nathaniel Gleicher, and other company executives. That leaves Facebook more open to manipulation by users seeking to affect the election. Russia, and potentially other foreign parties, are already making “pervasive” efforts to interfere in upcoming U.S. elections, the leader of Trump’s national security team said in early August. Just days before that, Facebook said it uncovered a coordinated political influence campaign to mislead its users and sow dissension among voters, removing 32 pages and accounts from Facebook and Instagram.
Source:Huffington Post
October 15, 2018 20:03 UTC
Nicole Kidman Says Tom Cruise Marriage Protected Her From Sexual Harassment
Nicole Kidman says her high-profile marriage to Tom Cruise insulated her against the rampant sexual abuse in Hollywood. Speaking with New York Magazine for its new issue about women and power, the “Big Little Lies” star opened up about how early on in her career she was spared from all-too common instances of sexual harassment due to Cruise’s star power. “Being married to Tom Cruise at 22 is something I’m always reluctant to talk about, because I’m married now to the man who is my great love [Keith Urban], and it almost feels disrespectful,” Kidman wrote in an essay for the outlet. “That said, I got married very young, but it definitely wasn’t power for me ― it was protection.”“I married for love, but being married to an extremely powerful man kept me from being sexually harassed,” she continued. “I would work, but I was still very much cocooned.”
Source:Huffington Post
October 15, 2018 20:00 UTC
Florida middle school allegedly calls out student for wearing GOP shirt, dressing as 'Republican nerd'
A middle school student in Florida was allegedly asked to turn his T-shirt inside out after dressing like a “Republican nerd” during Spirit Week. The unnamed Jacksonville student chose to wear a red shirt with a white and blue Republican elephant logo to Kirby-Smith Middle School last week during the school’s “Nerd Day,” WJXT reports. “It was Nerd Day, so he wanted to be a Republican nerd,” the student's mother told the news station. The teacher suggested the student turn his shirt inside out after discussing this dress code. However, the staff member did not see the student turn his shirt inside out and did not pursue the matter further after the conversation.
Source:Fox News
October 15, 2018 19:58 UTC
Family Of Kidnapped African Billionaire Offers Over $400,000 For Information On Whereabouts
The family of Africa’s youngest billionaire, who was kidnapped last week, is offering a hefty reward for information that would lead to the safe return of their son. His family is offering 1 billion Tanzanian shillings, which is equivalent to approximately US$437,000, to anyone who has information about his whereabouts that would lead to his homecoming. Dewji studied business at Georgetown and then returned to Tanzania to take over the company, turning it into an industrial giant. With an estimated net worth of $1.5 billion, he is the youngest billionaire in Africa and the only billionaire in Tanzania. For more, read: The $500 Million Baby: Meet ‘Mo’ Dewji, Who Vows To Be Africa’s Richest Man
Source:Forbes
October 15, 2018 19:58 UTC
Legal Fund for Trump Associates Raised $150,000 From Recycling Titan
WASHINGTON—The fund paying legal fees for President Trump’s associates ensnared in the Russia investigation raised about $150,000 in the third quarter of 2018, a drop from the previous period, according to a new tax filing. Nearly the entirety of Patriot Legal Expense Fund Trust’s receipts between July and October came from Anthony Lomangino, a recycling industry titan and member of Mr. Trump’s Mar-a-Lago resort in Florida. Mr. Lomangino gave the fund $50,000 in July and another $100,000 in late September.
Source:Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
Did Elizabeth Warren Just Kill Identity Politics?
“Elizabeth Warren’s Native American Heritage” is the title of a new campaign video promoting the senior senator from Massachusetts. Ms. Warren, a former Harvard law professor, is claiming vindication after presenting the results of a genetic test which appears to show she likely has more of a claim to Native American heritage—but perhaps less of a claim—than the average white person in the United States. The likely 2020 Democratic presidential candidate has been trying to find some way to respond to questions about her longtime...
Source:Wall Street Journal
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
Kings visit Toronto to play Drew Doughty's second-favorite team
“I’m sure we could,” Doughty said. “But we’re a team-focused people. The NHL — not that the NBA and football isn’t — but I definitely think there can be more of those individuals in [those] sports than they are these types of sports. We could use a little more of it, but we don’t want to override the league. We’re a team in here, and not one guy does the job for everyone.”
Source:Los Angeles Times
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
Stormy Daniels: Sex With Trump Was 'Funnier When He Wasn't The President'
Stormy Daniels, like millions of other Americans, wishes Donald Trump had never been elected president. “My old fans were gone, because middle-aged white guys are usually Trump fans,” she said. “And now if you go to one of my shows, it’s large groups of women, oftentimes in homemade matching Stormy shirts. They’re like, ‘Fuck Trump.’ Or they’re crying. No pressure, Stormy.”Daniels, whose real name is Stephanie Clifford, has sued both Trump and his former attorney Michael Cohen to dissolve the agreement.
Source:Huffington Post
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
This 'Sand Palace' was one of the few Mexico Beach houses that survived Hurricane Michael
Mexico Beach, Florida, was flattened by Hurricane Michael last week. But amid the incredible destruction, one home stood high on stilts above the wreckage, appearing largely untouched and gleaming in the sun. The home is known as the Sand Palace. It's a three-story, four-bedroom, 4½ bath vacation rental and has its own Facebook pageThe Sand Palace stands out amid the wreckage. In a Facebook post, it was reported that the ground floor and the stairs up to the middle floor are gone, along with windows in one of the bedrooms.
Source:CNN
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
Mysterious shipwreck reveals its secrets: Wreck may be Lake Erie’s oldest
A shipwreck discovered in Lake Erie in 2015 may be the oldest found in the famous lake, experts say. The wreck was first spotted on a sonar screen by Tom Kowalczk, a member of the Cleveland Underwater Explorers. That would make the wreckage the oldest ever found in the shallowest of the Great Lakes. Many have been found in recent years by a small, dedicated band from the museum and the Cleveland Underwater Explorers club. WRECK OF WWII SHIP DISCOVERED 74 YEARS AFTER IT DISAPPEARED DURING A RESCUE MISSIONThe Great Lakes continue to reveal their shipwreck secrets.
Source:Fox News
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
Ruth Bader Ginsburg can learn something from Brett Kavanaugh
What does Justice Brett M. Kavanaugh, the newly confirmed originalist on the Supreme Court, have in common with Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the iconic feminist? But there’s at least one area in which they both starkly depart from their jurisprudence: how they hire law clerks. Supreme Court clerks have substantial duties, including researching legal precedent, preparing for oral argument and even writing first drafts of opinions. Of his 48 law clerks, a little more than 25 percent have been nonwhite. Ginsburg has been a certain vote to uphold affirmative action programs and other efforts to remedy the effects of race discrimination.
Source:Washington Post
October 15, 2018 19:52 UTC
'Suspicious letter' at Sen. Susan Collins' Maine home prompts investigation
A “suspicious letter” sent to the home of Sen. Susan Collins in Bangor, Maine, has prompted an investigation by local authorities, sources told Fox News on Monday. A Bangor Police Department spokesman told Fox News that investigators responded to “a residence on West Broadway to investigate a suspicious letter” at 1:39 p.m. Monday. The investigation is ongoing,” a Bangor Police Department spokesman told Fox News. A spokesperson for Collins, R-Maine, told Fox News the senator was “on her way home," but said her husband was at the house. “Senator Susan Collins is the mother & grandmother of white women in America who gave us a Donald Trump presidency.
Source:Fox News
October 15, 2018 19:50 UTC
Threatening letter with alleged 'ricin' sent to Sen. Susan Collins' Maine home
A hazardous materials team was called to the Bangor, Maine home of Sen. Susan Collins Monday after a threatening letter containing what its author said was the poison ricin was delivered there. Collins spokesperson Annie Clark said on Twitter that Collins' husband, Tom Daffron, the couple's dog and parts of the home were quarantined while the letter was analyzed. Independent Sen. Angus King of Maine, who voted against Kavanaugh, came to his fellow senator's defense. Collins signaled that she would vote for Kavanaugh in a dramatic Senate floor speech on Sept. 28. “Senator Susan Collins is the mother & grandmother of white women in America who gave us a Donald Trump presidency.
Source:Fox News
October 15, 2018 19:50 UTC