An image of a boy is painted on the bars of the border wall, in front of coils of razor wire, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump’s proposal to end the partial government shutdown includes funding for more border wall, but also provisions that further restrict asylum seekers.

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An image of a boy is painted on the bars of the border wall, in front of coils of razor wire, seen from Tijuana, Mexico. President Trump’s proposal to end the partial government shutdown includes funding for more border wall, but also provisions that further restrict asylum seekers.

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Democrats and immigrant rights groups were quick to oppose President Trump’s proposal to end the government shutdown over the weekend because it includes $5.7 billion for an expanded border wall.

Now that they’ve seen the full language of the bill, they’ve found even more reasons not to like it.

The proposed bill includes some big changes to U.S. immigration policy that were not included in the president’s public announcement — including a provision that would sharply limit asylum applications for children from Honduras, Guatemala, and El Salvador.

“It’s a trojan horse filled with many extreme immigration proposals,” said Kerri Talbot of the Immigration Hub, an immigrants’ rights organization, during a conference call with reporters on Tuesday. “The bill includes the most extreme proposals on asylum I think that I’ve ever seen,” Talbot said.

When he announced his proposal on Saturday, President Trump said it includes “critical measures to protect migrant children from exploitation and abuse,” including a new system that would allow Central America minors to apply for asylum in their home countries.

But the president did not mention that the proposal would in fact require migrant children to apply from their home countries, and prevent them from applying in person at the border. In addition, only migrant children with a “qualified” parent in the U.S. would be permitted to apply for asylum — a sharp break from current asylum policy.

“This historic change in asylum law would categorically block tens of thousands of children from ever applying for asylum,” said Greg Chen, government relations director at the American Immigration Lawyers Association.

When President Trump announced the proposal over the weekend, he said the bill would provide “three years of legislative relief” for recipients of DACA, or Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals. DACA protects about 700,000 young immigrants known as Dreamers, who were brought to the country illegally as children, from deportation. He also said the bill would extend protections for 300,000 holders of Temporary Protected Status, or TPS.

Protections offered to immigrants under both DACA and TPS have been targeted to end under the Trump administration, though federal courts have stepped in to extend both programs for now.

But on closer inspection, immigration experts say, the Senate GOP bill would likely cover fewer immigrants than are currently protected under DACA and TPS.

The administration’s proposal would tighten DACA requirements in a number of ways, and raise fees for the program. The proposal “does not extend DACA,” wrote David Bier, an immigration analyst at the Cato Institute, so much as replace it with “a totally different program that will exclude untold thousands of Dreamers who would have been eligible under DACA.”

Likewise, the bill would create a new application process for TPS holders, advocates say, with new standards and higher fees that would exclude many current TPS holders. And while the bill would allow TPS holders from Honduras, Nicaragua, El Salvador and Haiti to apply, it would exclude those from African countries including Yemen, Sudan and Somalia.

On the Senate floor Tuesday, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell defended the proposal as a “bold, comprehensive” compromise to reopen the federal government. McConnell criticized Democrats for rejecting the proposal, and promised a vote in the Senate later this week.

But Democrats say there’s nothing bi-partisan about the bill, which was negotiated without their input.

“The president’s proposal is one-sided, harshly partisan and was made in bad faith,” said Minority Leader Chuck Schumer during remarks on the Senate floor.

“The asylum changes are a poison pill, if there ever was one,” Schumer said.

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White House Press Secretary Sarah Sanders derided New York Democratic Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez’s recent claim that the world will end in 12 years due to climate change, and suggested the Trump administration has little need for the progressive firebrand’s thoughts in general, in an exclusive, wide-ranging interview Tuesday night with Fox News’ “Hannity.”

Sanders also slammed what she called the “disgraceful” media coverage of the previous week, which included a discredited BuzzFeed News report on the Russia investigation and a social media harassment campaign against pro-Trump Catholic high school students — based largely on incomplete and selectively edited videos of their encounter with a Native American man and other activists shouting homophobic slurs.

“I don’t think we’re going to listen to [Ocasio-Cortez] on much of anything — particularly not on matters we’re gonna leave in the hands of a much, much higher authority — and certainly, not listen to the freshman congresswoman on when the world may end,” Sanders said.

Speaking at an event commemorating Martin Luther King Day on Monday, Ocasio-Cortez asserted that climate change constituted “our World War II” and added: “Millennials and people, you know, Gen Z and all these folks that will come after us are looking up and we’re like: ‘The world is gonna end in 12 years if we don’t address climate change and your biggest issue is, how are we gonna pay for it?'”

A protestor leads a Native American prayer with a traditional drum outside the Catholic Diocese of Covington Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in Covington, Ky. The diocese in Kentucky has apologized after videos emerged showing students from Covington Catholic High School mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/John Minchillo)

A United Nations report on climate change warned late last year that the world will face several consequences from climate change – extreme drought, food shortages and deadly flooding – unless there’s an “unprecedented” effort made to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 2030.

Then, in November, the Trump administration released a federal report that found that the impacts of climate change are being felt across the country, and “extreme weather and climate-related events” are going to worsen in the years to come — with a significant possible impact on the economy by the end of the century.

Some conservative commentators have argued that most proposed solutions would do more harm than good, and also have accused climate activists of crying wolf. In 2006, a NASA scientist and leading global warming researcher declared that the world had only 10 years to avert a climate catastrophe. Meantime, President Trump repeatedly has cast doubt on the risks posed by global warming, despite the report from his administration.

‘‘Large parts of the Country are suffering from tremendous amounts of snow and near record setting cold,” Trump tweeted on Sunday. “Amazing how big this system is. Wouldn’t be bad to have a little of that good old fashioned Global Warming right now!’’

In 2012, Trump famously wrote: “The concept of global warming was created by and for the Chinese in order to make U.S. manufacturing non-competitive.”

Now, Sanders said, the attention should be on pressing matters like the ongoing partial federal government shutdown over funding for Trump’s proposed border wall.

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“We’re focused on what’s happening in the world right now,” Sanders told host Sean Hannity. “We wish that Democrats like herself would engage in that conversation, help us fix some of the current problems we know exist, and work with us to get some things done — particularly on the border, fixing the national and humanitarian crisis.”

Sanders added, in an apparent reference to God: “That’s the kind of stuff we’re focused on, not things we’re gonna leave up to the hands of something and someone much more powerful than any of us.”

A man places a sign showing support for the students of Covington Catholic Catholic High School in front of the Catholic Diocese of Covington in Covington, Ky., Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

The president himself seemingly has little patience for Ocasio-Cortez. Asked last week outside the White House for his response to Ocasio-Cortez’s claim that there is “no question” he’s a racist, Trump responded simply: “Who cares?”

Separately, Sanders said it was “a sad day in America” when House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., preemptively rejected Trump’s compromise proposal to end the partial federal shutdown. The White House offered various immigration-related concessions to Democrats in exchange for border wall funding.

“Republicans have been in lock-step with the president, because we actually believe in getting something done,” Sanders said. “[Democrats] are not looking to solve problems, but they’re simply looking to kick the can down the road.”

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Sanders added, “The president is a leader, and Nancy Pelosi is nothing more than an obstructionist.”

The White House press secretary said Pelosi’s security concerns about the upcoming planned Jan. 29 State of the Union address were unfounded, and that the White House was “moving forward” with plans for the address in Congress.

“I don’t know if there would be a place that all of those members would attend, but the president’s focus is on speaking to the American people.”

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on Tuesday that he would have no objections to Trump delivering a State of the Union address in the House of Representatives, despite Pelosi’s repeated threats that the traditional speech be delayed.

“Sure,” Hoyer, D-Md., responded, when asked if he’d be open to Trump speaking in person in the House for the State of the Union. Asked if Pelosi would agree, he added, “I don’t know what the discussions have been.”

“What happened for BuzzFeed is a great lesson for the news media. Quit trying to be first, and start trying to be right.”

Sanders concluded by bashing BuzzFeed News, which authored a bombshell report alleging Trump directed his former lawyer Michael Cohen to lie to Congress — a report that Special Counsel Robert Mueller’s team dismissed as inaccurate. Sanders, like Donald Trump Jr. on Monday, said the episode was similar to the media coverage of a Catholic high school pro-life trip to Washington over the weekend.

A police car sits at the entrance to Covington Catholic High School in Park Hills, Ky., Saturday, Jan 19, 2019. A diocese in Kentucky apologized Saturday after videos emerged showing students from the Catholic boys’ high school mocking Native Americans outside the Lincoln Memorial on Friday after a rally in Washington. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

The Covington High School students stood near the Lincoln Memorial as activists identified as Black Hebrew Israelites shouted homophobic slurs at them, and a Native American man approached them banging a drum. Initial videos of the episode suggested that the students were harassing the man.

Many liberal and conservative commentators criticized the students — and, in some cases, called for them to be personally harassed and their school closed — based on initial, incomplete videos, only to walk back their comments after a fuller video showed that the students themselves had been harassed, and that the students did not appear to approach the Native American man or the activists at any point.

“I’ve never seen so many people so happy to destroy a kid’s life,” Sanders said, referring to the social media response to the episode — which included multiple death threats and verbal intimidation directed at the students.

Covington High School Principal Robert Rowe announced Tuesday that the school was closed for the day due to safety concerns.

Fox News’ Joseph A. Wulfsohn contributed to this report.

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House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer told Fox News’ “Your World with Neil Cavuto” on Tuesday that he would have no objections to President Trump delivering a State of the Union address in the House of Representatives on Jan. 29, despite House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s repeated threats that the traditional speech be delayed.

Hoyer, D-Md., also noted that the Senate plans to vote Thursday afternoon on both Republican and Democratic proposals to end the ongoing partial federal government shutdown, now in its 32nd day. Both are cloture votes, meaning they both need 60 yeas to pass.

“It’s certainly a step forward to have votes, and it’s my understanding … that one of the bills that we sent over, which reopens the government until Feb. 8, will be put on the floor,” Hoyer said, referring to the Democrats’ proposed bill, which does not include any funding for Trump’s proposed border wall. “I’m sure every Democrat will vote for that bill.”

The GOP bill tracks Trump’s proposal on Saturday, in which he offered Democrats a three-year extension of protections for 700,000 Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) recipients, in exchange for the $5.7 billion he has been seeking for a barrier along the nation’s southern border with Mexico.

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The White House’s proposed deal would also extend protections by three years for 300,000 recipients of the Temporary Protected Status (TPS) program — which protects immigrants from designated countries with conditions that prevent nationals from returning safely.

But Hoyer, the No. 2 House Democrat, said Senate Republicans can’t realistically count on even one Democrat supporting that legislation, meaning it would not come close to the 60-vote threshold required for passage. Republicans have a narrow 53-47 majority in the Senate.

“I don’t think he’s gonna peel off any Democrats,” Hoyer said, adding that the shutdown is “dangerous” amid reports that unprecedented numbers of federal airport security screeners are calling out sick. “They think the government ought to be reopened, then there ought to be a negotation.”

Hoyer’s comments came as Fox News reported that the White House is still planning to move ahead with next week’s scheduled State of the Union address, even as the details remain up in the air after Pelosi strongly urged the president to delay the speech or submit it in writing amid the government shutdown fight.

Fox News has learned that the White House sent a letter to the House Sergeant at Arms asking to schedule a walk-through for next week’s planned address. This comes after a previously scheduled walk-through last week was canceled at Pelosi’s request.

TSA worker Amelia Williams is given a bottle of milk at a food bank for government workers affected by the shutdown, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019, in the Brooklyn borough of New York. (AP Photo/Mark Lennihan)

According to multiple sources, it remains unclear whether the address scheduled for Jan. 29 will, in fact, go forward, or where it would be.

The White House is even planning for the possibility of a speech outside of Washington.

Pelosi has cited security threats to the event, given that key federal agencies are unfunded, but a senior Homeland Security official told Fox News that the agency is ready and well-prepared for the event. Republicans have accused Pelosi of playing politics with the address.

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“It’s certainly a step forward to have votes.”

— House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md.

Asked by host Neil Cavuto whether Trump can legally request to deliver the State of the Union in the House over Pelosi’s objection, Hoyer indicated that he could not. Although Pelosi has not formally disinvited Trump from giving the speech, she has suggested a speech would not be a good idea and should be delivered only in writing.

“Within his right — now that’s a technical term, and the answer to that is no,” Hoyer responded. “The president comes here at the invitation of the Congress, and particularly the House, to address the Congress of the United States.”

Article II, Section 3 of the U.S. Constitution also grants the president the ability “on extraordinary occasions” to convene either or both chambers of Congress. But that provision hasn’t been utilized since 1947 and 1948, when President Harry Truman explored this option twice, and “convening” does not necessarily mean Trump would be allowed to speak.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., leaves the chamber after speaking about his plan to move a 1,300-page spending measure, which includes $5.7 billion to fund President Donald Trump’s proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border, the sticking point in the standoff between Trump and Democrats that has led to a partial government shutdown, at the Capitol in Washington, Tuesday, Jan. 22, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

And when Truman made use of Article II, Section 3 to “convene” Congress, he did so when Congress was out of session. Both Democrats and Republicans have vowed to keep Congress in session until the shutdown is resolved.

Otherwise, for the speech in the House, both chambers of Congress must approve a resolution to use the House chamber and to have both bodies meet in a Joint Session of Congress. This has not happened yet. Should the Senate move to host the president instead, a resolution would still be needed.

But Hoyer, in an apparent break with Pelosi, seemingly had no problems with allowing Trump to speak.

“Sure,” Hoyer responded, when asked if he’d be open to Trump speaking in person in the House for the State of the Union. Asked if Pelosi would agree, he added, “I don’t know what the discussions have been.”

And in another split with Pelosi, Hoyer again demurred when asked if walls are indeed an “immorality.”

“Physical barriers are a part of the solution,” Hoyer said. “Look, if it’s protecting people it’s moral, if it’s imprisoning people, it may well be immoral.”

On Thursday afternoon, the Senate will vote on the president’s compromise plan to end the government shutdown and fund a border wall in exchange for various immigration-related concessions, followed by a vote on a Democratic proposal.

The Democratic plan would re-open the government through Feb. 8, without providing wall funding.

On Monday, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky. argued that Trump’s plan is the only realistic way to end the ongoing partial federal government shutdown that is now in its 32nd day. The GOP Senate bill, which tracks Trump’s proposal, also includes supplemental funding for disaster recovery.

“The opportunity to end all of this is staring us in the face,” McConnell said. “That’s why we will vote on this legislation on the Senate floor this week. All that needs to happen is Democrats agree it is time to put the country ahead of politics, take ‘yes’ for an answer, and vote to put this standoff behind us.”

Furloughed EPA worker Jeff Herrema holds a sign outside the offices of U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell, in Park Hills, Ky., Tuesday, Jan 22, 2019. (AP Photo/Bryan Woolston)

McConnell added: “To be clear, the proposal outlined by the President that we’ll consider here in the Senate is the only proposal currently before us that can be signed by the President and immediately reopen the government.”

But Hoyer, speaking to Cavuto, said that Trump “created those problems” with DACA by attempting to rescind it. “Now he says I’ll solve them for you. That’s not negotiation. …It is a stupid thing to have this president, uh, done.”

The GOP bill includes funding to allow Customs and Border Patrol to make “substantial investment in enhanced surveillance technologies, funding for the recruitment and training of 750 new Border Patrol agents… and $5.7 billion for the construction of a physical barrier along the highest-priority areas of the southern border,” McConnell said.

In his remarks, McConnell also pointed to Democrats who have publicly disputed House speaker Nancy Pelosi’s contention that a border wall would be an “immorality.”

“Is their plan truly to throw federal workers, DACA recipients, Customs and Border Patrol, and indeed all Americans under the bus just to extend this run of political theater? So they can look like champions of the so-called ‘Resistance’?” McConnell asked, referring to Democratic leaders.

“That’s not exactly surprising, considering that just a few weeks ago, the Speaker went way out on a limb and declared that physical border security is on its face, quote, ‘an immorality,'” he continued. “But not every Democrat seems to see it that way. And how could they? One Democrat from the state of Washington admitted, quote, ‘the wall is not in itself a bad idea… it’s been done.’ Another from Illinois asserted, quote, ‘If we have a partial wall, if we have fencing, if we have technology used to keep our border safe, all of that is fine.’ And one of the Speaker’s fellow members of the California delegation said, quote, ‘We will support border security… all of its elements including fences.’”

“You can’t have a compromise when one side declares, ‘This is what we want, and this is what you want,'” Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., said in his own remarks.

On Sunday, House Homeland Security Committee Chairman Bennie Thompson, D-Miss., broke with some of his fellow congressional Democrats by acknowledging in an interview with ABC News’ “This Week” that he “would not rule out a wall in certain instances,” although he cautioned that the White House needed a better “plan” than simply using a wall as a “talking point.”

Hoyer also appeared to side with Thompson’s position last Wednesday on Fox News’ “Special Report with Bret Baier,” arguing that border walls “obviously” work in some areas and rejecting suggestions that barriers should be removed where they already exist. Hoyer also said walls are not necessarily a question of morality.

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And earlier this month, in an interview with CNN, Democratic California Rep. Juan Vargas acknowledged that those physical defenses were effective and enhanced security for local residents.

“I mean, you go to the border and you see long lines of people waiting to come in … So we do have a problem of having huge wait lines to come in,” Vargas told anchor Don Lemon. “You know, there is fencing already there, to be honest with you. There are places where we already have fencing where it made sense for some security.”

Fox News’ Chad Pergram, Alex Pappas, John Roberts, and Neil Cavuto contributed to this report.

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MADISON, Wis. – With nearly all of southern Wisconsin under Winter Storm Warnings from Tuesday morning into Wednesday, some schools are deciding to get ahead of the storm before the snow starts falling.

Winter storm warnings go into effect at 6 a.m. Tuesday until 9 a.m. Wednesday for Juneau, Adams, Richland, Crawford, and Grant counties.

The warnings start a few hours later at 9 a.m. Tuesday until noon Wednesday for Marquette, Green Lake, Sauk, Columbia, Dodge, Iowa, Dane, Jefferson, Lafayette, Green, Rock, and Walworth counties.

Both the Prairie du Chien and Wauzeka-Steuben school districts announced overnight they would be cancelling classes on Tuesday morning.

More districts have also announced cancellations Tuesday morning. You can find a full list of school closings and delays as they come in on Channel3000.com.

Meteorologist Haddie McLean says the snow is expected to start falling by 10 a.m. Tuesday for the entire News 3 viewing area, with freezing rain also possible in Dane County and areas to the south. By the time the snow stops on Wednesday morning, a total of 4 to 10 inches could fall.

Following the storm, another blast of dangerously cold air is expected at the end of the week. The low temperature on Friday morning is forecast to be -11, with wind chills of -20 to -35. Highs on Friday will struggle to get into the double digits, with a high of 2 currently being forecast.

Lows on Saturday and Sunday morning are also expected to be below zero.

For the latest updates on the winter storm, download the First Alert Weather and Traffic app and stay tuned to Channel3000.com and News 3.

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January 22 at 8:18 PM

Dan Lavoie, a political strategist in New York, first saw the video on Saturday, like thousands of other people who logged on to social media that day.

A group of rowdy high school boys, many wearing “Make America great again” hats, had faced off with a Native American man near the Lincoln Memorial in Washington on Friday. And the encounter, with the hallmarks of a scene in the tense reality show that is modern life in the United States — confrontation and racial animosity — was recorded by many people nearby with phones and cameras.

By Saturday, Twitter’s algorithms had taken two snippets of these videos posted by random accounts and helped bring them into many people’s feeds. The tweets traveled quickly — another match thrown into the pool of anger and disenchantment that has been building up over race relations in the Trump era.

“I got very upset about it,” Lavoie said in a phone interview Tuesday. “Most of my Twitter network tends to be racial justice and social injustice. So I was seeing it amplified nonstop.”

The videos ignited a conversation that raged throughout the holiday weekend, having leaped from social media to newspapers and television broadcasts and then back to social media again. The debate grew as it took on layers — about whether important context had been missing from the original video (it had), whether the teens deserved such wide opprobrium (many said they did), and whether this was actually a debate between right and left — that continued with its entry on President Trump’s Twitter feed on Tuesday.

But it may have taken off with the help of fraud. Twitter announced Monday that one of the main accounts behind the viral tweets about the episode had been suspended, saying that its rules prohibit “deliberate attempts to manipulate the public conversation on Twitter by using misleading account information.”

The episode leaves more questions than answers, namely the identity and intentions behind the account. But it serves as a troubling reminder of the immense power social media networks wield over the political conversation in the United States, despite lingering concerns about their susceptibility to fraudulent and malicious use.

The account that Twitter suspended, @2020fight, purported to be a teacher named Talia living in California. “Teacher & Advocate. Fighting for 2020,” the bio noted. It had some 40,000 followers and used, at least recently, a photo not of a schoolteacher but an attractive woman who is a blogger in Brazil, according to CNN Business, which first reported the story.

The account tweeted a snippet of the faceoff between Covington Catholic High School junior Nick Sandmann and Native American elder Nathan Phillips on Friday night, which was eventually viewed 2.5 million times, drawing tens of thousands of retweets and likes. Another tweet with video of the stare-down, shared by the anonymous account @lulu_says2 went viral, as well. That tweet has since been deleted.

The user @lulu_says2, whose account has not been suspended, did not reply to a request for comment sent to an email address. Another anonymous user, @Chameleon876, which positions itself as a Janet Jackson fan account, quickly posted the school where the kids were from, in reply to @2020fight’s original tweet, as well as a short narrative that purported to be from someone who was at the event.

Sam Riddell, a master’s student at Georgetown, said in a tweet that he had found evidence that @2020fight was available for hire on the site Shoutcart, which allows people to pay influencers to post content.

“Someone *could* have paid @2020fight to post the viral video that sparked one of the most toxic 24-hr news cycles we’ve recently seen and led @POTUS to take sides and criticize the press,” he wrote. “This highlights an under-discussed aspect of information operations — information laundering. You don’t need a bot network or sockpuppet to make divisive information go viral — you just need a few bucks and an influencer or trusted source willing to do it for you.”

If the goal was to start an argument across the country’s yawning political divide, the tweets certainly achieved it.

“We know that this is a well-worn tactic of people who traffic in media manipulation,” Joan Donovan, director of the Technology and Social Change Research Project at Harvard’s Shorenstein Center, told The Washington Post. “But the larger story here is really about the evidence that people have been marshaling to describe the interaction and how everyone who is called to comment on this video sees something different.”

Matthew Hindman, a media professor at George Washington University who produced a detailed report last fall about the continued prominence of suspicious accounts on Twitter, said the company’s policy of removing tweets from suspended accounts, instead of freezing them, prevents researchers, journalists and other investigators from doing the necessary forensic work to figure out how the content was used and whether it received help from other networks of potentially suspicious accounts.

“That’s a policy choice Twitter has made, knowing the consequence,” he said in a phone interview. “The broader picture here is that there are networks of low-quality and automated accounts that are operating every day.”

Hindman said his research indicated that the majority of tweets about inflammatory and partisan content are automated on Twitter.

“A lot of what we think of as spontaneous and viral is not really spontaneous and viral,” he said. “And that if we did a better job at realizing that — that it’s manufactured, amplified and manipulated in lots of ways — we’d be better at resisting these kinds of efforts.”

Hindman said that Twitter’s suspension of the @2020fight account was an indication it probably found something significantly problematic about it.

Lavoie, the New York political strategist, who has seen the other videos of the incident that have since emerged, said he has complicated feelings about the whole affair. On one hand, the behavior shown in the videos was a striking demonstration of racism, white supremacy and entitlement, regardless of why they were promoted at first, he said.

But, he said, it’s important to know whether the videos were being used for a vague political end — whether they were exploiting the explosive issue of race for the purposes of propaganda.

“I don’t regret being outraged because it was outrageous,” he said. “I do worry about who is outraging us and what they have to get out of it.”

Russia was identified as being behind a large-scale campaign to sow division in advance of the 2016 election through the use of hateful, misleading and divisive information spread across major social media platforms.

Lavoie had previously written about the regret that he experienced after being influenced by one of the popular Facebook pages that Russia had set up as part of this effort, Blacktivist. That group, too, had played to resentments over racism and the treatment of minorities.

On Monday, he found himself taking to Twitter again.

“We all got played. Myself included,” he wrote of the Catholic-school-kid videos. “It’s important to truly recognize what’s happening to us, over and over.”

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Los Angeles public school teachers have reached a tentative deal with city leaders to end a strike that has shut down the nation’s second-largest school district for more than a week.

As part of the deal, teachers would get a 6 percent raise and slightly fewer students in each classroom, according to Alex Caputo-Pearl, president of United Teachers Los Angeles, a labor union that represents about 34,000 public school teachers, nurses, librarians, and support staff in the city.

“We have seen over the last week something pretty amazing happen,” Caputo-Pearl said at a press conference Tuesday morning at City Hall. “The creativity, innovation, passion, and love and emotion of our members was out on the street for everyone to see.” He was joined at the press conference by LA Mayor Eric Garcetti and District Superintendent Austin Beutner. The group said they reached a deal after an all-night negotiating session that ended at 6:15 am.

The deal includes hiring more nurses, guidance counselors, librarians, and support staff. The district will also try to limit the expansion of charters schools and will reevaluate testing requirements. Union members still need to vote on the contract before ending their strike, which has now lasted six days. If union and school board members ratify the contract, classes will resume on Wednesday and more than 600,000 students can return to school.

Randi Weingarten, president of the American Federation of Teachers, called the agreement a “paradigm shift.”

“For the first time in recent memory, the conversation has focused on how to fund our schools so students have the support they need,” Weingarten told me.

The deal follows a week of tense negotiating between teachers and school officials, who felt added pressure as the strike gained national — and even international — attention. Teachers pointed out that California is one of the wealthiest states in the country but ranks toward the bottom in how much money it invests per student. It’s unclear how much more money the state plans to funnel to its largest school district, but the strike certainly pushed local and state officials to hustle.

“The strike was painful and it had a cost, but it helped,” Garcetti said during Tuesday’s press conference.

The strike’s success adds new momentum to a national movement to boost investment in public education. Frustration over stagnant teacher wages, crumbling infrastructure, and deep budget cuts to education fueled a wave of teacher protests in conservative states in 2018. Educators went on strike in Arizona, West Virginia, Kentucky, and Oklahoma, forcing state lawmakers to raise their pay and spend more on schools.

The strike in Los Angeles suggests that the movement is expanding beyond the red states where it began, and could lead more progressive states to reexamine their investment in public education too.

The strike got school officials to move, fast

With 640,000 students, Los Angeles has the second-largest school district in the US (behind only New York City). Much of the student population is poor and underserved — about 80 percent of kids qualify for free or reduced-price lunch.

Yet California is among the states that spend the least on each student (adjusted for the cost of living), largely because of the state’s strict limits on property tax rates.

Union leaders and school district officials had spent more than a year negotiating a new contract but made little progress. Beutner, the school district’s superintendent, repeatedly blasted union leaders for trying “bankrupt” the city with its expensive proposals.

The teachers union has demanded a number of changes, including smaller class sizes; limited standardized testing; more support staff, such as nurses, librarians, and academic counselors; and a 6.5 percent salary increase. The union also wants the state to limit the expansion of public charter schools — privately run schools that receive state funding but are subject to fewer regulations.

Negotiations stalled even after teachers, nurses, and librarians voted in August to authorize a strike. It wasn’t until teachers walked out of class last week, shutting down every public school in the city, that talks began to move forward.

On Thursday, Gavin Newsom, California’s new Democratic governor, proposed a $209 billion budget that would increase school spending; school district officials also agreed to make some changes to classroom sizes and teacher salaries. Union leaders rejected the offer on Friday, calling it “woefully inadequate.”

After spending the weekend back at the negotiating table, there was a breakthrough.

On the surface, the deal appears to address most of the teachers’ concerns, though class sizes will only shrink by about four students — one each year for the next four years. The city’s middle and high school teachers currently have an average of 32 students in each classroom, double the national average.

During the press conference, Garcetti described the deal as “historic,” while the schools superintendent struck a more cautious tone. “We can’t solve 40 years of underinvestment in education in one week or one contract,” Beutner said.

Teachers and other union members are expected to vote Tuesday to approve the contract. If it fails, they go back to the table to strike another deal. If it passes, and the school board approves it, teachers will go back to work Wednesday.

Source Article from https://www.vox.com/2019/1/22/18193145/la-teachers-strike-deal

In response to President Trump’s good-faith offer of a compromise to fully reopen the government, Democrats should stop playing puerile politics and instead play ball.

The president’s position was a major compromise even before Saturday’s speech to the nation, while the Democrats’ position before the speech contradicted many of their own earlier positions.

Trump long has said he wants to put a wall across the whole border with Mexico, a project costing $20 billion at the very least, but began these negotiations asking for just $5.7 billion for security including a partial wall. Leading Democrats, on the other hand, long have acknowledged that a wall across large swaths of the border would make sense. So their current position, that any wall at all is “immoral,” borders on hypocrisy.

Trump has long argued that any form of “amnesty” is a violation of sovereignty, so his offer of three years’ grace period for a full million currently illegal residents (in three categories) is a significant concession for him. Democrats who say they are horrified by the partial government shutdown should accept his deal — or at the very least make a major counteroffer going most of the way towards his $5.7 billion request.

The public is ill-served by politicians so eager to “win” against the other side that they refuse even to come to the negotiating table. This is especially true when many of those politicians have said in the past that walls across significant parts of the border are a good idea. The public needs to know that our system can work, that a workable “middle” can be found, that ideology can bend a bit for the sake of the public weal. If Democrats truly believe the public is being harmed because about 400,000 government workers are being kept from providing important services, and if they think legislative protections for a million immigrants are important, then they should be willing to pay a little for a partial wall they once supported.

One can believe (as I do) that there is no “crisis” at the border, that immigration policy in general is a problem but nowhere near as important as both sides (especially conservatives) say it is, and that a wall would be merely a moderately helpful part of a much larger necessary overhaul of immigration policy, and still see that it is the Democrats who are negotiating in bad faith while refusing to put government employees back to work. Trump for now has given up on three-fourths of his wall and offered three years of amnesty he clearly detests, risking fury from his own base — while Democrats have actually retreated farther from the middle and asked not a thing from their own hard-line ideologues.

When even a critic of Trump in general and in his specific conduct of the shutdown wars can see Democrats are the ones being much more obstinate here, the political tide may start turning in a way that buoys the president and Republicans in general.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/democrats-deal-in-bad-faith-with-trumps-reasonable-offer

The White House is still planning to move ahead with next week’s scheduled State of the Union address, but the details remain up in the air after House Speaker Nancy Pelosi strongly urged the president to delay the speech or submit it in writing amid the government shutdown fight.

According to multiple sources, it remains unclear whether the address scheduled for Jan. 29 will in fact go forward, or what venue it would be in. The White House is even planning for the possibility of a speech outside of Washington.

PELOSI URGES TRUMP TO DELAY STATE OF THE UNION UNTIL GOVERNMENT SHUTDOWN ENDS

“We are still in a holding pattern,” one senior source said.

But Fox News has learned that the White House sent a letter to the House Sergeant at Arms asking to schedule a walk-through for next week’s planned address. This comes after a previously scheduled walk-through last week was canceled at Pelosi’s request.

At the moment, President Trump intends to be at the Capitol next Tuesday to deliver his speech as scheduled, sources said. White House officials told Fox News they essentially are preparing for two tracks for next week’s speech. The preferred track is an address, as per custom, at the Capitol. The second track is a backup plan for a speech outside of Washington, D.C.

Ultimately, whether the speech is given on the House floor is up to Pelosi. In an appearance on Fox News on Tuesday, White House Deputy Press Secretary Hogan Gidley suggested the president could move the location of the speech should Pelosi block it in the House.

“There are many ways he can deliver the State of the Union address,” Gidley said on “America’s Newsroom.” “I’m not going to get ahead of anything he would announce.”

Gidley accused Pelosi of “trying to play politics with that venue.” He also dinged the speaker for suggesting it may be difficult to provide security for the event because of the partial government shutdown.

“If the Secret Service can protect the president of the United States on a trip to Iraq, chances are they can protect the American president in the halls of Congress,” Gidley said.

A spokesman for Pelosi did not immediately return a request for comment. Neither did the House Sergeant at Arms office.

On Capitol Hill, there is immense uncertainty about what will happen. The offices of other congressional leaders referred questions about the speech to Pelosi.

“We are standing by to stand by,” one senior congressional official told Fox News when asked if the State of the Union speech would still unfold.

For that to happen in the House, both chambers of Congress must approve a resolution to use the House chamber and to have both bodies meet in a Joint Session of Congress. This has not happened yet.

Should the Senate move to host the president instead, a resolution would still be needed.

The White House and Pelosi have time to figure things out. Fox News is told Congress can actually put together the event rather quickly, though they would prefer to have at least 72 hours advance notice.

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Last week, Pelosi urged Trump to delay his State of the Union address until the partial government shutdown ends, or submit the address in writing.

“Sadly, given the security concerns and unless the government re-opens this week, I suggest that we work together to determine another suitable date after government has re-opened for this address or for you to consider delivering your State of the Union address in writing to Congress on January 29,” Pelosi wrote.

A senior Homeland Security official later told Fox News, however, that they have been preparing for months for the State of the Union event.

“We are ready,” the official said. “Despite the fact members of the Secret Service are not being paid, the protective mission has not changed.”

The official added: “It is a ‘no fail’ mission.”

On Tuesday, an official confirmed to Fox News that DHS and the Secret Service are continuing their plans for a State of the Union on Jan 29.

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After Pelosi called for a delay in the speech, Trump abruptly denied military aircraft to her and other Democrats for a foreign trip just minutes before the congressional delegation was set to depart.

The State of the Union address, historically, has not always been delivered in person. Thomas Jefferson started the practice of submitting the address in writing, and it was not until Woodrow Wilson’s administration that the speech was delivered in person again.

Pelosi’s letter to the White House comes as the shutdown, the longest in history, has left more than 800,000 federal employees and contractors without pay. Some employees are deemed essential to government functions and are required to work without pay. Others have been furloughed, and also do not receive paychecks.

The government first ran out of funding on Dec. 22, as the president requested $5.7 billion in funding for border security and construction of a border wall or physical barrier along the U.S.-Mexico border, citing an “invasion” and a “humanitarian crisis.”

Pelosi, and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, D-N.Y., have vowed to block any spending proposal that includes funding for a wall.

Fox News’ Chad Pergram and Brooke Singman contributed to this report.

Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/politics/white-house-planning-to-proceed-with-state-of-the-union-but-details-up-in-air-after-pelosi-threat

Certain newsrooms are in bargaining mode over the Covington Catholic fiasco.

The narrative alleging that an elderly Native American man was harassed this weekend by a group of racist, white high school students at the March for Life has fallen apart, leaving some news organizations scrounging for whatever they can to justify inciting an online riot to form against a group of Kentucky teenagers.

The New York Daily News has, for example, published a story this week accusing Covington Catholic students of donning “blackface” for a high school sporting event.

“SEE IT: Covington Catholic High students in blackface at past basketball game,” reads the New York Daily News headline. The report claims that a photo “said to be featuring Covington Catholic High School students clad in blackface during a 2015 basketball game made the rounds on Twitter Monday morning amid last week’s Indigenous Peoples March controversy.”

The Daily News seems to have misidentified the year of the photo, which likely comes from 2012.

“The photo depicts several white students, some in blackface, shouting at an opposing black player,” the report said. “While the photo’s origins couldn’t be verified, the official Covington Catholic High School YouTube account published a video last January boasting its basketball school spirit, and several clips, including one from 2012, showcase attendees chanting in black face, a mockery of the opposing players.”

The video was removed Monday from the Kentucky school’s YouTube page.

“The full-body black paint worn by the students in the school’s official video closely resembles that of the students in the photo being circulated on social media,” the Daily News report continues, going full Zapruder. “One student from the photo, not in blackface, is sporting a logo that also mirrors the Covington emblem.”

It added in reference to the most visible teen from the March for Life video from this weekend, “This won’t help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann’s case.”

Okay, a few things here: First, to suggest that the students were doing some sort of minstrel show in mockery of an opposing team seems like a stretch, to put it mildly. As many others have already noted, the Covington photos clearly depict a “blackout” game, where attendees are encouraged to dress completely in a single color in support of their team. The photo shows everyone clad in black. It also shows that some students have painted their entire bodies (not just their faces) in black.

Occam’s Razor, folks. Either these kids went all-out to promote the designated color for that specific game, or they publicly targeted an opposing team with extremely racist antics. It could be that the Covington teens in this photo engaged in extremely racist behavior, but let’s maybe wait until someone can confirm that that’s exactly what happened here before we accuse them of the worst. A rush to judgment based on incomplete information is what got us here in the first place.

Secondly, what does the New York Daily News mean by, “This won’t help Kentucky student Nick Sandmann’s case”? There is no case. Sandmann maintains that he did not harass or abuse an elderly Native American in the nation’s capital, and the videotape bears him out. How does a photo from 2012 dispute his claim? Sandmann was in elementary school at the time that the Covington basketball photo was taken.

Is the Daily News suggesting that because some students may have behaved badly in the past, then Sandmann probably behaved badly, too? That’s some solid reasoning.

Lastly, let’s recognize the Daily News’ report for what it is: A newsroom is looking for something after the fact to justify its earlier rush to paint the Covington teens as monsters. The narrative alleging that Covington students bullied a Native American protester was based on a single, incomplete video. It turned out almost immediately to be bogus. But rather than admit error, some are making the not-so-subtle attempt to prove that Covington is a bad school, and that therefore the MAGA hat-wearing teens from this weekend are also bad people, and so therefore it’s OK to gang up on and bully them.

Stand-up comedian Jeremy McLellan explains the motivation behind the Daily News’ lousy follow-up reporting best.

“We have now reached the ‘Bargaining’ phase of the ‘5 Stages of Grief That You Shared An Internet Hoax,’ which is when you pivot to smaller allegations in an attempt to justify the original mob. The smartest ones drop truth altogether and pivot to ‘the larger context,’” he writes. “What every single one of these ‘bargains’ has in common is it pivots the discussion away from the original (false) allegation that sparked the internet mob. PLEASE LET’S AGREE THEY ARE BAD. But if it’s not about the original claim, it’s bargaining.”

He adds, “Psychologically it makes you feel better about having unjustly attacked someone. ‘Well if he was bad anyway, or he did something else that was bad, or was simply from a bad group, what’s the harm?’ Most people think this way. It feels good. Meanwhile our souls rot.”

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/new-york-daily-news-searches-desperately-for-real-dirt-on-covington-students-accuses-them-of-blackface

The Board of Education at the Los Angeles Unified School District should cease negotiations with the Los Angeles teachers union. Instead, the board should divert funding to ensure that parents in Los Angeles are able to get their kids into one of the city’s numerous charter schools. Those schools remain in operation and have shown a penchant for impressive educational returns on investment.

As the Los Angeles teachers strike rumbles on this week, some might say that suspending negotiations would be arrogant or even malicious. But math doesn’t allow any other answer.

The Los Angeles teachers union’s demands are totally unaffordable. More than that, by calling on the district to add hundreds of new positions (more positions means more union members and more union dues), the union would actually increase structural costs on the already near-bankrupt school district. City officials have a responsibility to put families first.

Ultimately, that’s what’s most at stake here: the ability of families to send their children to good schools in confidence their children will gain good educations. And that’s simply not the case at present in Los Angeles. With the teachers union having extracted platinum health plans without any co-pays, and with teacher salaries busting inflation, the district is caught between ever-increasing class sizes and ever-increasing deficits. The teachers union says that the solution is simple: dig into the long-term savings account. But it knows full well that doing so would make matters worse. That’s because the savings account is needed to pay the looming retirement costs in pensions and healthcare for those currently employed.

That takes us back to the charter schools. Remaining open as other city schools are shuttered, the charter schools are providing children with what they need: education. And they’re providing parents with what they have paid for via their taxes: a critical public service.

The future of education in Los Angeles depends on the school board’s refusal to blink. Instead, finding inspiration from leaders such as Margaret Thatcher, it should stand firm in the better interest of those it is sworn to serve: LA families.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/suspend-negotiations-with-the-los-angeles-teachers-union

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The FBI association’s report says a lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism. | Mark Wilson/Getty Images

Government Shutdown

One FBI special agent said the partial government shutdown has “eliminated any ability to operate.” Another said the job has “never been so hard or thankless.” A third said agents cannot “protect and serve the American people.”

The anonymous testimonials came in a report Tuesday by the FBI Agents Association, which advocates for more than 14,000 active and former FBI special agents, detailing how the longest-ever partial government shutdown hinders the agency’s operations.

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“The shutdown has eliminated any ability to operate,” said one unnamed special agent, who the report said is working on counter-intelligence matters against a top threat to the United States’ national security. “It’s bad enough to work without pay, but we can only conduct administrative functions while doing it. The fear is our enemies know they can run freely.”

The Department of Justice did not respond to a request for comment on the report Tuesday.

No progress has been made by Republicans and Democrats to end the partial government shutdown, which is on day 32. President Donald Trump has not budged from his demand for more than $5 billion to fund a wall at the Mexican border, which Democrats have refused to accommodate.

The FBI association’s report, which includes anonymous accounts from special agents across the nation and some overseas, says the lack of funds has interfered with operations related to crimes against children and sex trafficking, drug and gang crimes, and counter-intelligence and counter-terrorism.

The anecdotes in the report are vague and include claims that forensic interviews of child victims are being delayed, that sources in counter-terrorism investigations have been lost and that travel has been restricted.

The report also warns of consequences agents could face if they are not paid.

Special agents are subjected to “rigorous and routine financial background check,” according to the report. The association warns that if agents get behind on payments, it could delay them securing or renewing security clearances, or even disqualify some agents from serving in some of their cases.

In addition, the association warns that pay uncertainty could dissuade individuals from being recruited to the FBI.

Source Article from https://www.politico.com/story/2019/01/22/fbi-shutdown-report-1119526

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Washington (CNN)Special counsel Robert Mueller’s team has expressed interest in the Trump campaign’s relationship with the National Rifle Association during the 2016 campaign.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/politics/mueller-nunberg-trump-campaign-nra/index.html

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    (CNN)The nominees for the 91st Academy Awards were revealed Tuesday morning.

    Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/01/22/entertainment/oscar-nominations-2019/index.html

    The Kentucky high school whose students are at the center of a viral video controversy after last week’s March for Life Rally says it will stay closed Tuesday due to safety concerns.

    The announcement by Covington High School Principal Robert Rowe was made in a letter sent to parents, students and staff. Students from the Catholic school are said to be facing death threats – and have been widely maligned and vilified online – after a video clip emerged Saturday that gave some commenters an inaccurate impression that the teens were harassing a Native American man, Nathan Phillips, following the pro-life demonstration.

    VIDEO SHOWS TENSION BETWEEN NATIVE AMERICANS, HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS BEFORE VIRAL CLIP

    “After meeting with local authorities, we have made the decision to cancel school and be closed on Tuesday, January 22, in order to ensure the safety of our students, faculty and staff,” Rowe said. “All activities on campus will be canceled for the entire day and evening.  Students, parents, faculty and staff are not to be on campus for any reason.”

    The Campbell County Boys Basketball team, which was supposed to be playing Covington tonight in a game, also announced its game was canceled Tuesday.

    “Please continue to keep the Covington Catholic Community in your prayers,” Rowe said.

    Subsequent video footage released over the weekend revealed the students were accosted and yelled at before Phillips and other Native American activists approached them. Another group – the so-called Black Hebrew Israelites – were heard shouting abuse at the students for wearing “Make America Great Again” hats.

    Jill Hamlin, a chaperone mother who says she was there with her son and the students during the incident, told ‘Fox & Friends’ Tuesday she believes the boys were “targeted for what they stood for, which is Christianity and the right for life,” and “partially because of the color of their skin.”

    “We were there for the March for Life – it’s an annual trip that the Covington Catholic High School goes to and we meet every year at the Lincoln Memorial at the end of the day to catch our buses,” Hamlin added. “We were not there for any other purpose other than to attend the peaceful March for Life, which we did.”

    Nick Sandmann, a junior at Covington Catholic High School who was caught in the center of the controversy, spoke out for the first time on Sunday. He released a statement saying he and his classmates were taunted by a group of African-American protesters.

    TODD STARNES: COVINGTON HIGH SCHOOL STUDENTS SMEARED BY MAINSTREAM MEDIA LIES — DON’T EXPECT AN APOLOGY

    He said he was “mortified that so many people have come to believe something that did not happen — that students from my school were chanting or acting in a racist fashion toward African Americans or Native Americans.”

    “I did not do that, do not have hateful feelings in my heart and did not witness any of my classmates doing that,” he added.

    Following the revelations of full video footage of the incident, some prominent social media users have backtracked their condemnation of the students — though many have left their criticism and calls to reveal private information still live on social media — admitting the initial footage didn’t reveal the full picture.

    President Trump has offered support to the students, accusing the media of smearing the teenagers.

    “Nick Sandmann and the students of Covington have become symbols of Fake News and how evil it can be,” he tweeted Tuesday. “They have captivated the attention of the world, and I know they will use it for the good – maybe even to bring people together. It started off unpleasant, but can end in a dream!”

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    Kenton County Commonwealth’s Attorney Rob Sanders told the Cincinnati Enquirer on Monday that threats against the school and students are being investigated.

    He didn’t reveal the exact nature of the threats, only that students and the school were threatened with actual violence.

    “It’s scary. My son works — I have been nervous to have him even go to his job because I don’t know who is out there and what they are doing,” Hamlin told ‘Fox & Friends’ about the threats. “My husband was going to follow my son to school this morning because we just don’t know what the volatility of the situation is with these people that react and they don’t know the full story.”

    Fox News’ Lukas Mikelionis contributed to this report.

    Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/covington-high-school-closes-tuesday-as-uproar-persists-following-viral-video-of-confrontation-with-native-american-man

    After Jason Leopold and Anthony Cormier dropped a questionably sourced article charging President Trump with directing his personal attorney Michael Cohen to lie to Congress about the Trump Tower Moscow project, the news cycle centered on examining the credibility of the piece. If special counsel Robert Mueller’s response is indeed accurate, then the BuzzFeed piece was yet another sham, and at least one anonymous source burned Cormier and Leopold, who told different cable news networks different explanations for their sourcing. It could mark the death-knell of the two reporters’ careers and seriously call BuzzFeed News’ legitimacy into question.

    CNN’s Senior Media Reporter Oliver Darcy published a piece following the scoop digging into Leopold’s ” checkered past,” namely instances of unsatisfactory attribution and sourcing. Darcy praised the reporting pair’s track record on Trump/Russia scoops, but noted on Twitter, “the intense attention has also resurfaced Leopold’s checkered past.”

    It was obviously worth examining the credibility of the reporters, but Leopold’s past didn’t really “resurface.” Darcy dug up details because Leopold’s name was in the news. It’s all fine and good to comment in the affirmative, “Perhaps we should consider whether or not this reporter is credible.” But to act as though these facts passively re-emerged, just by chance, is just intellectually dishonest.

    Todd Packer occasionally resurfaces in Scranton. Carter Baizen occasionally resurfaces in the Upper East Side. Gene Parmesan occasionally resurfaces in Newport Beach. Facts, inanimate objects with no power to emerge on their lonesome, do not resurface. Reporters dig.

    Most of the time, this digging is warranted. We should know if our elected officials engaged in corruption or dishonest business dealings. But digging through decades-old tweets of Kevin Hart’s just in time for him to host the Oscars isn’t tantamount to them being revealed on their own. Kyler Murray’s teenage tweets did not magically ” resurface” the night he won the Heisman Trophy. It’s a conscientious effort to try and find some incriminating detail in someone’s past at the moment of their greatest success.

    Reporting involves agency. Articles don’t just passively publish. Journalists ought to label their actions as such.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/journalists-digging-through-peoples-pasts-arent-resurfacing-anything

    Freshman New York Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-CortezAlexandria Ocasio-CortezJuan Williams: AOC fever shows appetite for new politics Ocasio-Cortez raises money for transgender youth on video game live stream Ocasio-Cortez responds to Aaron Sorkin directing young Dems to ‘stop acting like young people’ MORE (D) in an interview late Monday said she gives “zero” f—s about criticism she’s received from members of her own party.

    “Now, congresswoman, for you and other freshmen members of Congress, you’re getting a fair amount of pushback from even members of your own party saying ‘wait your turn, go slow, don’t ask for so much so fast right now, you’re new, wait your turn for everything and don’t make waves,'” late-night host Stephen Colbert said to the rising progressive star on CBS’s “The Late Show.”

    “I want to ask this question in a respectful manner, knowing also that you’re from Queens, so you will understand this question,” he continued.

    “And the BX,” Ocasio-Cortez, who is also from the Bronx, laughingly injected. 

    “On a scale from zero to some, how many f—s do you give?”

    After taking a moment to deliberate, Ocasio-Cortez reached into her side and pulled out her hand to make a circle, saying: “I think it’s zero.” 

    “That’s my thought!” Colbert exclaimed.

    When pressed further about her response to lawmakers who say her actions show a “divided front” for the Democratic Party, Ocasio-Cortez responded: “It’s how we choose to interpret items and how we choose to interpret events and things like activism and advocacy.” 

    “If you think activism is inherently divisive – I mean, today is Martin Luther King Day,” she continued. “People called Martin Luther King divisive in his time. We forget he was wildly unpopular when advocating for the Civil Rights Act. I think that what we really need to realize is that social movements are the moral compass and should be the moral compass for our politics.” 

    Ocasio-Cortez’s comments arrive weeks after several Democratic lawmakers have publicly pushed back against the lawmaker and her threat to support primary opponents who plan to challenge Democrat incumbents she considers to be too moderate. 

    Others also expressed their frustration with a grassroots movement behind the lawmaker that aimed to get her a high-ranking post on a committee in an interview with Politico earlier this month. 

    “I’m sure Ms. Cortez means well, but there’s almost an outstanding rule: Don’t attack your own people,” Rep. Emanuel Cleaver (D-Mo.) told the publication at the time. “We just don’t need sniping in our Democratic Caucus.”

    Source Article from https://thehill.com/homenews/house/426350-ocasio-cortez-on-how-many-f-ks-she-gives-i-think-its-zero

    LONDON (Reuters) – British opposition Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn moved a step closer to paving the way for another referendum on European Union membership by trying to use parliament to grab control of Brexit from Prime Minister Theresa May.

    With the clock ticking down to March 29, the date set in law for Brexit, the United Kingdom is in the deepest political crisis in half a century as it grapples with how, or even whether, to exit the European project it joined in 1973.

    Since May’s divorce deal with the EU was rejected by 432-202 lawmakers last week, the biggest defeat in modern British history, lawmakers have been trying to plot a course out of the crisis, yet no option has the majority support of parliament.

    Labour put forward an amendment seeking to force the government to give parliament time to consider and vote on options to prevent a “no deal” exit including a customs union with the EU, and “a public vote on a deal”.

    “It is time for Labour’s alternative plan to take center stage, while keeping all options on the table, including the option of a public vote,” said Corbyn, who put his name to the amendment.

    It was the first time the Labour leadership had put forward in parliament the possibility of a second vote, which was welcomed by some opponents of Brexit.

    However, the party said it did not mean it supported another referendum and lawmakers cautioned that the amendment would not garner the support of parliament.

    Clarity from London is some way off: lawmakers have so far put forward six amendments with proposals for a delay to Brexit, a new vote and even for parliament to grab control of the process. They will vote on the next steps on Jan. 29.

    “WORST CASE SCENARIO”

    Beyond the intrigues of British politics, the future of Brexit remains deeply unpredictable with options ranging from a disorderly exit that would spook investors across the world to a new referendum that could reverse the whole process.

    IMF Managing Director Christine Lagarde told CNBC on Tuesday that a no-deal Brexit was “obviously the worst case scenario”.

    Ever since the United Kingdom voted by 52-48 percent to leave the EU in June 2016, Britain’s leaders have repeatedly failed to reach a consensus on how to leave the EU.

    May on Monday proposed tweaking her deal, a bid to win over rebel Conservative lawmakers and the Northern Irish party which props up her government, but Labour said May was in denial about the crushing defeat of her plans.

    She refused to rule out a no-deal Brexit, warning that another referendum would strengthen the hand of those seeking to break up the United Kingdom and could damage social cohesion by undermining faith in democracy.

    With May’s Brexit policy in tatters, lawmakers in the British parliament are trying to wrest control of Brexit, though there is no clear majority for an alternative to May’s deal.

    The EU was not impressed with May’s speech on Monday, as highlighted by the fact that none of its top officials nor its Brexit negotiator made any comments – positive or negative.

    German Justice Minister Katarina Barley said on Tuesday she was disappointed by British Prime Minister Theresa May’s plan to break a deadlock over Brexit and suggested Britain hold a second referendum.

    Without a approved deal or an alternative, the world’s fifth largest economy will move to basic World Trade Organization rules on March 29 — a nightmare scenario for manufacturers dependent on delicate supply chains which stretch across Europe and beyond.

    Company chiefs are shocked at the political crisis and say it has already damaged Britain’s reputation as Europe’s pre-eminent destination for foreign investment.

    “Brexit is the most stupid economic decision for a long time, the worst thing that can happen,” Kasper Rorsted, boss of German sportswear firm Adidas, told the Suddeutsche Zeitung.

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    Asked if Brexit could be averted, he said: “I think the train has already left the station. Emotionally, I hope that all parties can come to their senses.”

    Supporters of Brexit say that while there may be some short-term disruption, the warnings of chaos are overblown and that in the long term, Britain will thrive if it cuts loose from what they cast as a doomed German-dominated experiment in European unity.

    Writing by Guy Faulconbridge; Additional reporting by Kylie MacLellan and William James in London, and Gabriela Baczynska; in Brussels; Editing by Michael Holden and Alison Williams

    Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu/opposition-leader-pushes-for-parliament-vote-on-new-brexit-referendum-idUSKCN1PG0I7

    The government shutdown — the longest in U.S. history — is estimated in 31 days to have cost the American economy almost as much as the $5.7 billion President Trump has demanded for his proposed southern border wall.

    Average weekly direct and indirect costs of the partial shutdown, which began Dec. 22, currently add up to $1.2 billion, according to Beth Ann Bovino, S&P Global’s U.S. chief economist. Monday marked the start of the shutdown’s fifth week, and the closure will have caused roughly $6 billion in damage to the economy if the government does not reopen by the end of the week, Bovino estimated in a recent research note

    And the average weekly cost of the shutdown is expected to grow as the damage to industries and consumers both widens and deepens. “The longer this shutdown drags on, the more collateral damage the economy will suffer,” Bovino wrote.

    Direct effects of the marathon shutdown include lost productivity from the hundreds of thousands of furloughed workers who haven’t been paid since the Dec. 22 closure. While the precise impact has not been calculated, the Bureau of Economic Analysis estimates that federal employees’ lost hours during a 16-day shutdown back in October 2013 reduced fourth-quarter GDP by 0.3 percentage points.

    NASA employees working without pay to protect critical missions

    “As in previous shutdowns, the productivity lost from furloughed government workers will never be regained. In real terms, GDP will be lower since no ‘product’ was created,” the S&P Global note said.

    Federal workers will be compensated when the government reopens, but workers in the roughly 4 million private-sector jobs that depend on the federal government won’t receive back pay, according to Capital Economics.

    The longer the shutdown extends, the more grave its impact could be if it starts to affect unpaid workers’ consumption, for example.

    The partial closure of the Securities and Exchange Commission will delay companies’ plans to file initial public offerings, at least until it reopens, and the Treasury’s shutdown threatens to delay income tax refunds, which could have a dampening effect on sectors that tend to benefit from tax-refund spending, including auto retailers, according to Raymond James.

    Private businesses that depend on visitors to national sites are also feeling the pinch as Americans cancel their vacations to national parks, museums and monuments that are closed.

    An extended shutdown could reach even further into American households by causing these businesses to reduce their staffs — taking wages away from private citizens. 

    The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, the nation’s largest business association, last week urged Mr. Trump and Congress to end the shutdown. Consequences from the shutdown are “wide and growing,” Neil L. Bradley, the group’s chief policy officer, wrote in a letter Tuesday. He listed a wide range of affected programs, data and functions.

    “Small businesses are unable to receive assistance from the Small Business Administration. Companies are delayed in their ability raise additional capital or complete the process of going public. The review of mergers and acquisitions is suspended. Companies ranging from manufacturers to brewers are unable to receive the approvals required by law to sell their products,” he wrote. “Travelers are delayed.”

    “Processing of imports is hindered, and tariff exclusion requests are unprocessed. Safety inspectors are sidelined, mortgage approvals are delayed, and research is halted. National Parks are closed and trash at the parks is not being collected. Grants, contracts, and payments for goods and services already provided are delayed,” the letter continued. “Federal rulemakings are halted, and hundreds of thousands of federal employees and contractors go without pay.”

    According to data compiled by Bloomberg, the thousands of businesses with contracts tied to the federal government could lose a cumulative $200 million a day.

    Source Article from https://www.cbsnews.com/news/government-shutdowns-damage-to-u-s-economy-to-soon-exceed-5-7-billion-cost-of-trumps-border-wall/

    The news media in the United States is horribly, perhaps irrevocably, broken.

    In the past 72 hours, there have been two major, all-consuming news cycles based on either inaccurate or outright false allegations. Equally distressing as the fact that the press promoted these stories despite obvious red flags is that some reporters continue to cling to the original bogus narratives. Because when it comes to accusations leveled against President Trump and conservatives, many in the nation’s largest and most powerful newsrooms are less arbiters of the truth and more active participants in the toxic, hyper-partisan culture wars.

    The first major news cycle came Thursday evening after BuzzFeed News published a report titled, “President Trump Directed His Attorney Michael Cohen To Lie To Congress About The Moscow Tower Project.”

    The press went wild, enthusiastically repeating the story’s central claim, ignoring all the while that it is based entirely on the say-so of two anonymous sources who claim they’re familiar with special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation. Newsrooms continued to parrot the BuzzFeed News article even after its authors contradicted each other over whether they had actually seen proof of the allegation made by their anonymous sources.

    The three networks, ABC, CBS, and NBC News, dedicated an impressive 27 minutes Friday to covering the report. The talking heads at CNN and MSNBC used the word “impeach” roughly 200 times Friday morning and afternoon while discussing how they thought the article would play out for the White House. Laughably enough, newsrooms and pundits also referred to the story as a “ bombshell” while also leaning heavily on the “ if true” qualifier.

    Then came Friday evening.

    “BuzzFeed’s description of specific statements to the Special Counsel’s Office, and characterization of documents and testimony obtained by this office, regarding Michael Cohen’s Congressional testimony are not accurate,” Mueller’s office said in a statement.

    Good thing those newsrooms couched their coverage with the ironclad “if true” qualifier.

    Absurdly enough, some in the news media maintain that maybe the denial isn’t even a denial. Others are criticizing the Office of Special Counsel for seeking to correct the record. More still say the news industry is the real victim of BuzzFeed News’ reporting.

    “Those trying to tar all media today aren’t interested in improving journalism but protecting themselves,” said MSNBC’s Chuck Todd. “There’s a lot more accountability in media these days than in our politics. We know we live in a glass house, we hope the folks we cover are as self aware.”

    His self-righteousness would be a lot more persuasive were it not for the fact that we’ve been down this exact same road maybe a dozen times already in the Trump era. Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: Newsrooms face-plant on a doubtful and thinly sourced Trump administration story, the president and his allies claim vindication in their anti-media crusade, and members of the news media say it’s unfair that people keep pointing out the news industry’s mistakes and that they all seem to go in one direction. This was a much more interesting story back in Trump’s first year.

    Todd’s claim that the press does a good job holding itself accountable would also be more convincing were it not for the fact that newsrooms were at it again less than 24 hours after the Mueller statement, eagerly propping up an obviously dubious story alleging several white teenagers at the March for Life had harassed Nathan Phillips, an elderly Native American protester. There have been calls for boycotts of the teens’ school. Some of the students have also been “doxed” and threatened with physical violence, and all based on the press’ endorsement of a single, incomplete video and Phillips’ say-so.

    “Boys in ‘Make America Great Again’ Hats Mob Native Elder at Indigenous Peoples March,” reported the New York Times this weekend.

    The Washington Post reported in a headline, “‘It was getting ugly’: Native American drummer speaks on his encounter with MAGA-hat-wearing teens.”

    “Viral video of Catholic school teens in ‘MAGA’ caps taunting Native Americans draws widespread condemnation; prompts a school investigation,” reported ABC News.

    The New Republic’s Jeet Heer called the teens in the video “ racists.” CNN’s Ana Navarro claimed the teens’ “ asswipe” parents had taught them “bigotry” and “racism.” Others uncritically repeated Phillips’ charge that the teens had chanted “ Build the wall” at him while blocking him from ascending the steps of the Lincoln Memorial.

    As it turns out, however, more complete footage of the incident tells a different story entirely. The longer tapes are so revealing, in fact, that it seems clear Phillips’ account in the Washington Post and elsewhere was deliberately misleading. The teens perhaps did not behave as well as one would hope, but there is nothing to show that they “mobbed” Phillips — he approached them. There is nothing to corroborate Phillips’ assertion that they chanted “Build the wall.” In short, there is nothing to show the incident played out the way newsrooms claimed it did.

    Several of the media commentators who had originally called for the boys’ destruction have since deleted their initial remarks, which, again, were based solely on a context-less video and the say-so of one person. Others, however, clung to the narrative that racist, white teenagers from a school in Kentucky had tormented a Native American. New York magazine even published a supposed first-hand account Monday, which a Vanity Fair staff writer claims refutes the complete footage of the incident.

    It should have never come to this. Newsrooms and reporters wouldn’t be backtracking frantically had they applied even a fraction of the normal amount of skepticism to both the BuzzFeed report and MAGA-teens video. Both stories should have been treated as thinly sourced allegations requiring additional context and further corroboration. But the news media can’t help itself, especially if it sees red.

    I’ve spent the last two years urging the press to do better, arguing that every misstep and face-plant feeds the president’s claim that the news media is an unreliable narrator. To a degree, he’s right. If there’s one takeaway from this weekend of clown-shoe news reporting, it’s that a disproportionate number of reporters care more about sticking it to the Right than they care about facts. The press has long been an unabashedly political machine, its many members leaning hard to the Left. But this weekend signals the national news media have gone far beyond politics. It’s straight-up culture war now in our leading newsrooms, much of it catering to the lowest, meanest partisans.

    Don’t expect the reporting to get better. So long as this industry continues its downward spiral into the supremely political, with journalists chasing blindly after “wins” for their respective teams, the reporting is only going to get worse. Much worse.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/were-well-past-the-point-of-urging-the-press-to-do-better-something-is-seriously-wrong

    With nearly two years to go, almost anything in the realm of the 2020 presidential election could change from now until Election Day. The one thing that won’t, however, is math.

    Any Democrat seeking to unseat President Trump will have to achieve at least one of the following: mobilize the base to achieve Obama-level turnout and enthuse the Left, or successfully splinter off ideological agnostics and the suburbs that defected from the GOP in the midterm elections.

    Candidates like Julian Castro or Sen. Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., will probably focus on the former, while Sens. Sherrod Brown, D-Ohio, or Amy Klobuchar, D-Minn., would emphasize the latter. But most candidates will likely require a blend of both to beat Trump.

    This is where Sen. Kamala Harris, D-Calif., will have a problem.

    To much left-wing fanfare, she’s running. By historical standards, she’s a weak presidential contender, if only for her lack of experience on the national stage, but given our current president’s resume, two years as a grandstanding senator hardly disqualifies her from the job.

    Harris fits the intersectional bill of the Left to a T: half-black, half-Indian, a woman, and as an added bonus, fairly young and attractive. She carries herself well and although her national record would be considered extremely weak tea in a normal election cycle, compared to failed Senate candidate and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke and even President Trump, she’s practically a political veteran. Harris passes the likeability test that killed Democrats in 2016, beating Hillary Clinton in that contest multiple times over. If she stops trying to out-cool her competitors as Beto and Warren have embarrassed themselves doing, she could amass popularity based on personal appeal alone.

    But Harris has billed herself as a left-wing candidate. Her presence on the national stage has been marked by fervent opposition to Trump and leaning into the identity politics heralded by the Democrats’ more extreme base. That’s where her entire career prior to entering the national arena becomes a problem.

    Although Harris has positioned herself on the national stage as the paragon of leftism, her tenures as district attorney and California attorney general were more evocative of Jeff Sessions than Bernie Sanders. Harris was an active proponent of civil asset forfeiture in California, fighting a state bill which would have curbed the questionable practice, and as early as 2015, she sponsored a bill to empower prosecutors to seize assets from people prior to criminal proceedings.

    Harris’ past of passivity on the death penalty and “hard on crime” approach has already spent years under careful examination by the hardcore Bernie base, but the lazier agents of the Left have remained largely ignorant of her policing. In a hypothetical universe, Trump, who somehow signed the most significant prison reform bill of a generation into law, could use serious missteps in her past, such as a California Superior Court ruling against Harris, finding that she had violated defendants’ rights by hiding potential exculpatory evidence from them.

    The socialist wing of the party has already decided Harris is a cop. The moniker may be extreme, but it raises the legitimate issue of a former prosecutor running for a Democratic nomination post-Black Lives Matter. As Dave Weigel at the Washington Post notes, her invocation of “For the people,” a motto she used to use in the courtroom, now in her campaign announcement shows that she’s not shying away from her prosecutorial past. But that hasn’t halted the growing refrain among the Left: Kamala is a cop.

    Harris can afford to lose soccer moms and barbecue dads, but if her tough on crime past costs her the base? Well, Trump may very well live to see another term.

    Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/the-left-decides-kamala-harris-is-a-cop-but-shes-running-anyways