Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter as politically motivated. – BBC News
Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter as politically motivated. – BBC News

The founder of Huawei has said there is “no way the US can crush” the company, in an exclusive interview with the BBC.

Ren Zhengfei described the arrest of his daughter Meng Wanzhou, the company’s chief financial officer, as politically motivated.

The US is pursuing criminal charges against Huawei and Ms Meng, including money laundering, bank fraud and stealing trade secrets.

Huawei denies any wrongdoing.

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Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut – The New York Times
Kamala Harris Faces Questions About ‘Democratic Socialist’ Label and Jussie Smollett in N.H. Debut – The New York Times

The audience also responded heartily to her veiled references to President Trump, whom she did not name. They rose to their feet and cheered when she denounced “his vanity project,” the wall on the southern border with Mexico.

Although Ms. Harris’s lack of history in the state might fly in the face of New Hampshire tradition, it does not seem to have hindered her in the slightest.

“There was some question about whether she was going to campaign here,” said Michael O’Leary, 62, a retired insurance manager. “But she made that commitment to retail politics, and that’s what people here expect.” He called her “fantastic.”

Ms. Harris has already hired a state campaign director, Craig Brown, as well as a political director here, Meredith Shevitz.

Dante Scala, a political scientist at the University of New Hampshire, said that with Ms. Warren and possibly Mr. Sanders in the race, New Hampshire was not an essential win for Ms. Harris, which may partly explain her late start.

“A third-place showing here would be fine,” he said. “For her, South Carolina is more of a make-or-break state.”

And in any event, he said, “she has California waiting for her,” referring to the earlier-than-usual 2020 primary in her home state that could play a major role in the nomination contest.

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/us/politics/kamala-harris-town-hall.html

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Illinois State Police acknowledge it wrongly issued a gun license to Aurora shooter – Chicago Tribune
Illinois State Police acknowledge it wrongly issued a gun license to Aurora shooter – Chicago Tribune

Illinois State Police acknowledged Monday that the agency wrongly issued a gun license to the shooter in the Aurora warehouse murders, but in a detailed statement the agency also suggested that the Aurora Police Department may have failed to do its part to ensure the man no longer owned a weapon.

According to state records, Gary Martin applied for a firearm owner’s identification card on Jan. 17, 2014. He provided his name and birth date for a background check, and falsely answered “no” when asked if he had ever been convicted of a felony.

A records search only returned Martin’s criminal history in Illinois, a series of minor infractions that did not disqualify him from owning a gun. The screening process failed to detect a mid-1990s felony conviction for aggravated assault in Mississippi for which he served five years in prison and was released in 1997.

Martin received his gun license on Jan. 31, 2014. Less than five weeks later, he purchased a .40-caliber Smith & Wesson from an Aurora gun dealer. The purchase was approved March 6, 2014, after Martin’s name and birth date cleared a second background check.

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Commander of US-backed forces fighting ISIS asks US to keep troops in Syria – CNN
Commander of US-backed forces fighting ISIS asks US to keep troops in Syria – CNN

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On wall, Trump made the worst deals — with worse to come – Washington Examiner
On wall, Trump made the worst deals — with worse to come – Washington Examiner

It would be nice if, just once, one of President Trump’s fervid supporters would admit just how stupendously incompetent he is proving to be.

The latest example is perhaps the most egregious. The very fact that this president is trying to use dubious executive authority to solve a spurious “national emergency,” to finance a wall he said Mexico would pay for, to make an end-run around a Congress that had offered him more wall money than he eventually settled for, after costing taxpayers billions of dollars and a nightmare of lost services in a government “shutdown” he deliberately engineered while having no idea how to “win” it, should make it blindingly obvious that he is as feeble a negotiator as the Oval Office has ever seen.

Toto has pulled back the curtain. The wizard is a blowhard and a fraud.

Trump was the one who elevated the “wall” from a moderately important need to a symbol of totemic importance. Trump was the one who said he could make it happen, and that it would be easy. It was Trump who said he would make Democrats bend to his will on the issue, thus turning a give-and-take negotiating scenario into a test of testosterone. How ironic that he lost that particular test to the nation’s first female speaker of the House.

Trump was effectively the head of a party that held both houses of Congress, yet could not pass the healthcare reform he so loudly promised. Trump could have insisted that Congress take another bite at that apple in 2018, but didn’t, thus demoralizing the Republican economic “base.” Trump, having been told Democrats were making mincemeat of Republicans on the campaign trail specifically on healthcare, could have countered with a message talking about Republicans’ own healthcare successes: Lower premiums. More options. No unwanted “mandate.” An end to a potential “death panel.”

Or, he could have taken the copious advice he received to the effect that he should make the 2018 campaign all about the apparently booming economy.

But no: Trump insisted this was a race about “the wall.” In event after event, he may as well have been Pink Floyd, insisting his imaginary wall was the be-all and end-all, not only keeping criminals out of the country but keeping Democrats out of power.

In short, he put all his eggs in a lopsided basket resting on the wall and dozens of Humpty Dumpty Republicans then lost their seats. All of Trump’s billions and all of Trump’s blather couldn’t put Trump’s majority back together again.

When Trump’s own miscalculations cost his party control of the House, Trump lost his bet on the wall right then. Trump chose the issue, Trump chose the message, and Trump chose the high-noon showdown. Result: The Democrats played Trump like a chump. To repeat: Trump ended up with less wall money than Democrats had offered him several different times before the government shutdown began.

So now Trump has declared an “emergency” for a project he himself said he “ didn’t need to do” right away. He has set a precedent that future Democratic presidents will gladly exploit. He has obliterated the spirit and design of the Constitution’s intention that only Congress can appropriate taxpayer money. And he has invited a major rebuke from courts across the land, including, I predict, from a unanimous Supreme Court — including two of his own appointees.

Trump promised the best deals, but now has delivered the biggest “fail.” At the border, the lone and level sands stretch far away.

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Melania Trump says she appreciates freedom after living in socialist country – Washington Examiner
Melania Trump says she appreciates freedom after living in socialist country – Washington Examiner

First lady Melania Trump took the stage at a Miami rally Monday to introduce her husband and told Venezuelan-Americans that she, too, knows what it is like to have lived without freedom.

“Many of you in the room know what it feels like to be blessed with freedom after living under the oppression of socialism and communism,” Trump told the Miami audience in a rare public appearance.

Trump was born in Slovenia in 1970. In 1990, the Socialist Republic of Slovenia dropped the “socialist” part of its name but did not officially become an independent republic until 1991.

Trump became a permanent resident of the U.S. in 2001 and obtained citizenship in 2006.

She told Venezuelan-Americans that their family and friends back home are “on the brink of reclaiming their own liberty.”

“Today we must let the Venezuelan people hear us all with one united voice. There’s hope. We are free and we pray together loudly and proudly that soon the people of Venezuela will be free as well,” said Trump. “My husband is here today because he cares deeply about the current suffering in Venezuela.”

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Kamala Harris gives awkward response when asked about Jussie Smollett claims – Fox News
Kamala Harris gives awkward response when asked about Jussie Smollett claims – Fox News
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Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris pressed on whether she still stands by her characterization of the alleged Smollett attack as a ‘modern day lynching’; Peter Doocy reports.

Democratic presidential candidate Kamala Harris appeared to be caught off guard Monday when she was asked about the latest developments in the alleged attack on “Empire” actor Jussie Smollett.

During an appearance at a bookstore in Concord, N.H., a female reporter asked the senator from California if she wanted to amend a tweet from Jan. 29, in which she said Smollett was the victim of “an attempted modern day lynching” and called the actor “one of the kindest, most gentle human beings I know.” Harris has also used the Smollett attack to push legislation that would make lynching a federal hate crime.

“Which tweet? What tweet?” Harris asked. As the reporter specified the tweet in question, Harris appeared to look around for a campaign staffer before responding.

“OK, so, I will say this about that case,” she said. “I think that the facts are still unfolding, and, um, I’m very, um, concerned about obviously, the initial, um, allegation that he made about what might have happened.

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“And it’s something we should all take seriously whenever anyone, um, alleges that kind of behavior, but there should be an investigation,” Harris added. “And I think that once the investigation has concluded then we can all comment, but I’m not going to comment until I know the outcome of the investigation.”

“Kamala Harris had no problem using inflammatory rhetoric to tie the #JussieSmollettHoax to @realDonaldTrump & his supporters,” Republican National Committee Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel tweeted late Monday. “Now that she has the facts, why can’t she even remember her divisive language? Why is she giggling about it?”

On Sunday, Harris’ fellow senator and Democratic presidential candidate, Cory Booker, told reporters he would “withhold” judgment on the matter “until all the information actually comes out from on-the-record sources.” Booker also referred to the alleged Jan. 29 attack on Smollett as “an attempted modern-day lynching” and called on Congress to make lynching a federal hate crime.

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Smollett, who is black and openly gay, claimed he was assaulted by two men who yelled racist and anti-gay slurs– as well as the phrase “This is MAGA country!” — as Smollett was walking to his Chicago apartment. Chicago police arrested and questioned two Nigerian brothers in the alleged attack, but released them on Friday without charges. Investigators said they’ve requested a follow-up interview with Smollett, but the actor’s representatives said there have been no plans to meet with police for the time being.

The Chicago Police Department has repeatedly declined to confirm local media reports that the attack was staged.

Fox News’ Mariah Haas contributed to this report.

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Andrew McCabe identifies as a victim: Here’s why I don’t believe him – Washington Examiner
Andrew McCabe identifies as a victim: Here’s why I don’t believe him – Washington Examiner

It has become difficult, almost painful, to watch: the public diminution of James Comey’s #2 at the FBI, Andrew G. McCabe, eerily following the post-bureau reputational arc of his former boss. McCabe’s interview with “60 Minutes” on Sunday had been billed as must-see-TV. But for this retired agent whose career had crossed with McCabe’s almost 20 years ago, the figure on the screen who’d once enjoyed a meteoric ascension to the apex of the bureau food chain has transformed into a pitiable figure. It was difficult to believe this was the same man I had once defended.

The fired former FBI deputy director has a book to sell: The Threat: How the FBI Protects America in the Age of Terror and Trump. A widely anticipated televised interview would assuredly bolster book sales.

The sit-down with CBS’s Scott Pelley was conducted in far cozier confines than the ones McCabe was subjected to by the Department of Justice’s Inspector General. In a blistering 35-page report released last year, McCabe was sanctioned for lying three times under oath, related to an unauthorized disclosure of sensitive information (media leak) predicated upon, as the IG asserts, making himself, not the FBI, “look good.” The IG made a recommendation to then-Attorney General Jeff Sessions that McCabe be fired from the FBI for intentionally misleading internal FBI and inspector general investigators. Sessions fired McCabe on March 16, 2018 — just more than 24 hours before his scheduled retirement.

McCabe claimed to have been “confused” by the questions and “distracted” by all the events swirling around him at the time. It was “stressful,” he laments. This is pitiable, coming from a man in that position. Many of his responses to Pelley were self-serving and reminiscent of the feckless director he had served under and so openly and fawningly admires. To hear McCabe speak about Comey is not to witness respectful, professional appreciation, but something bordering on sycophancy and idolatry.

He argues there was adequate predication to authorize the opening of a counterintelligence investigation into potential Russian meddling in the 2016 election. No sane person can find fault with this decision. But speaking from the position of someone familiar with FBI executive decisions, his decision was seemingly infected by confirmation bias. Comey’s seventh floor at FBI headquarters wasn’t exactly Lincoln’s “team of rivals.” It was a gaggle of many promoted-before-their-time, callow, overly ambitious, like-minded acolytes and activists.

His assertion that he ordered the opening of an obstruction of justice investigation into Trump following Comey’s firing is laughable and lamentable. McCabe misguidedly argues that he had became “very concerned that I was able to put the Russia case on absolutely solid ground, in an indelible fashion,” and that were he to be “removed quickly, or reassigned or fired, that the case could not be closed or vanish in the night without a trace.”

That sound you hear are the groans of countless FBI leaders who seemingly understand better than McCabe that innumerable levels of oversight by career professionals within the FBI and DOJ have always acted as a guardrail to prevent political interference into case investigations. Then again, it’s awfully rich that McCabe – rightly criticized for political influence in his own decision-making — would be the one to argue this fear.

McCabe, who only spent a few years conducting investigative work in the field, had been hustled through the obligatory senior assignments in order to be brought back as deputy director after the investigation into Hillary Clinton’s unauthorized email server case had been opened. He makes that point to Pelley. What he fails to mention is that he waited far too long to recuse himself from oversight of that case upon his return. He acknowledges that “I was a part of that team and those decisions.” Pelley curiously refuses to press on this point, gently reminding us that McCabe did recuse himself some months before the election.

The question is this: What ethical, experienced, mature, and sensitive-to-appearance-of-impropriety FBI senior executive in his right mind would not have steered clear of any perceived influence on a politically charged case when his spouse has decided to accept campaign funding from a governor with control of a political action committee and deep political ties to the Clintons? Answer: McCabe.

Pretending his decision here was not demonstrably reckless, selfish, and stupid makes you a partisan. His arguments that he acted “appropriately” only serve to further erode his credibility, cast more doubts on his other leadership decisions, and irrevocably tarnish the legacy of the FBI.

McCabe also exhibited poor judgment and a complete misunderstanding of his role as acting director while discussing that he had consulted with the Deputy Attorney General about invoking the 25 th Amendment following Comey’s firing. The FBI is not part of the decision-making process that the amendment provides to the vice-president and cabinet. McCabe had a bevy of FBI attorneys at his avail. Not one of them advised him this wasn’t his call to make, and that removal of a duly-elected president, via 25 th Amendment means, must be related to death, resignation, impeachment, or incapacitation?

There was not one question from McCabe’s television interviewer about his relationship with the disgraced former deputy assistant director, Peter Strzok, and one of his FBI attorneys, Lisa Page, regarding private discussions in his office that Strzok and Page had discussed in private text message exchanges. Discovery of the partisan communications resulted in their removals from the special prosecutor’s Russian election interference team. It’s hard not to view McCabe’s victim persona as pathetic, when explanations related to the “insurance policy” in the event Trump was elected have all fallen woefully short of passing the smell test.

McCabe still awaits notification of any criminal referral to the Justice Department on the IG’s findings, with no denials that he perjured himself by lying under oath — this is why he had to be fired. FBI agent trainees are warned that lying in an official capacity results in termination, as damning Giglio material will be generated. This witness-impeachment information is required to be turned over to defense attorneys in cases the agent would ordinarily testify in, rendering the agent incapable of doing the job.

So how should we take anything McCabe says now as truthful?

Politicians often misrepresent things. In reality, they lie. Trump (crowd size), Obama (keep your health plan), and Gillibrand/Klobuchar (serve out my term). But for a senior FBI executive to do so is egregious and intolerable. So when McCabe sharpens his axe to make second-hand claim that an FBI official at a meeting with Trump heard him reject a U.S. intelligence assessment on North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile capabilities and remark, “I don’t care. I believe Putin,” it’s not that we can’t necessarily imagine Trump saying this – it’s that it comes from McCabe.

His assertions that Rosenstein offered to wear a wire and record the president have been flatly denied by the deputy attorney general and resulted in a department spokesperson describing Rosenstein as having “never authorized any recording that Mr. McCabe references.”

In a more salacious section of his axe-grinding tome, McCabe alleges that former Attorney General Jeff Sessions made repugnant remarks about the composition of the FBI. “Back in the old days,” McCabe claims an openly racist Sessions confided in him, “you all only hired Irishmen. They were drunks, but they could be trusted.”

I served on various FBI protection details that required close travel and association with four Attorneys General – Janet Reno, John Ashcroft, Alberto Gonzales, and Michael Mukasey. It defies credulity that any modern AG would ever utter such blatantly racist remarks around anyone – much less the acting director of the FBI.

I don’t believe Andy McCabe, especially since the most prominent targets in his book are Trump, Sessions, and Rosenstein; three men who had a direct impact on the termination of his FBI career.

What I do believe is that a president who currently lives under an impeachment sword of Damocles appears to have been injudiciously targeted by a small group of supposedly apolitical public servants who panicked during a time of gravity-defying populism and ignored time-tested processes, protocols, and prohibitions for law enforcement intersection with the political process.

Andy McCabe has only served to convince me further of this abomination.

James A. Gagliano (@JamesAGagliano) worked in the FBI for 25 years. He is a law enforcement analyst for CNN and an adjunct assistant professor in homeland security and criminal justice at St. John’s University.

Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/andrew-mccabe-identifies-as-a-victim-heres-why-i-dont-believe-him

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George Mendonsa, US WWII ‘kissing sailor’, dies aged 95 – BBC News
George Mendonsa, US WWII ‘kissing sailor’, dies aged 95 – BBC News

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The photograph has appeared in exhibitions around the world

The US sailor famously photographed kissing a stranger in New York’s Times Square to celebrate the end of World War Two has died aged 95.

The picture of George Mendonsa bending over and kissing 21-year-old Greta Zimmer Friedman on VJ Day (Victory over Japan) became one of the most enduring images of the period.

It was one of four photographs taken by Alfred Eisenstadt as a round-up of celebration pictures for Life magazine.

Ms Friedman died in 2016 aged 92.

Mr Mendonsa’s daughter, Sharon Molleur, said her father suffered a seizure and died on Sunday after a fall at a care home in Middleton, Rhode Island.

Alfred Eisenstadt did not give the names of the kissing strangers and it was years before Mr Mendonsa and Ms Friedman were confirmed as the featured couple.

The photographer described how he watched the sailor running along the street on 14 August 1945, grabbing any girl in sight.

“I was running ahead of him with my Leica looking back over my shoulder but none of the pictures that were possible pleased me,” he wrote in the book Eisenstadt on Eisenstadt.

“Then suddenly, in a flash, I saw something white being grabbed. I turned around and clicked the moment the sailor kissed the nurse. If she had been dressed in a dark dress I would never have taken the picture.”

Ms Friedman, who had been working as a dental assistant, said she had not been aware of the photo until the 1960s.

“It wasn’t much of a kiss,” she later recalled. “It was just somebody celebrating. It wasn’t a romantic event.”

Mr Mendonsa had served in the Pacific and was on home leave when the picture was taken.

However, not everyone sees the photograph as something to celebrate. Although it was widely lauded as an expression of the joy felt across the US on the day Japan surrendered, in more recent times some have considered it, as Time Magazine wrote, “as little more than the documentation of a very public sexual assault”.

Source Article from https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47287116

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Radiation at the Grand Canyon. Tourists exposed. – USA TODAY
Radiation at the Grand Canyon. Tourists exposed. – USA TODAY

Hey, Short Listers: I’m jamming out to Dolly Parton as I write this because I enjoy the Queen of Country’s music, even if her husband doesn’t. It’s Kirk Bado in for Ashley Shaffer with today’s most-talked-about stories. 

First, the Grand Canyon: Tourists, employees and children were exposed to unsafe levels of radiation for nearly two decades inside a museum building at the Grand Canyon, according to the park’s safety director.

She called the first lady an ‘ape’. Looks like she committed fraud, too.

In 2016, Pamela Taylor called Michelle Obama an “ape in heels” on Facebook and lost her job at a nonprofit group, but it seems racist words were just the tip of the awful iceberg. Last week, a woman revealed she illegally registered for FEMA disaster benefits after a flood in 2016 that killed more than 20 people in West Virginia. That woman’s name and residences match those of the Pamela Taylor behind the racist post. Taylor defrauded the federal agency of more than $18,000 and could face up to 30 years in prison. 

A foldable iPhone? Apple hints yes

Apple’s “bendgate” controversy last year had everyone stress-testing iPhones, but a new patent filing suggests the tech giant might debut flexible phones – foldable iPhones, that is. Over Valentine’s Day, Apple applied for a patent, including 24 drawings that demonstrate ways in which future devices might be bent, such as a pyramid that suggests that two people sitting opposite each other could each view their own screen while competing in a game (Fortnite, anyone?). It’s unlikely we’ll see a model at the company’s showcase in September, but 2020? Apple might be flexible enough to pencil that in.    

An iconic photo’s sailor dies

George Mendonsa, identified as the sailor kissing a woman in a photo at the end of World War II, died over the weekend at 95. The timeless photo came to represent the soaring spirits of Americans after the war. The woman in the photo, identified as Greta Zimmer Friedman, described the kiss as “something that happened to her,” her son said.

Real quick 

Jussie Smollett’s story may be unraveling

“Empire” star Jussie Smollett claimed he was a victim of a racist, homophobic attack nearly one month ago. He said two masked men assaulted him, doused him in a chemical, yelled, “This is MAGA country” and put a rope around his neck. The claim sent shockwaves through the entertainment industry, but Smollett’s story seems to be unraveling. Police have questions for the actor after two brothers arrested in the assault said they were paid by the actor to orchestrate the attack. Chicago police may shift their investigation to Smollett within the next week as the baffling story drags on.

Trump’s national emergency may halt a Kentucky middle school

President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last week in an effort to circumvent Congress and fund his border wall. What’s that mean, exactly? We have a quick explainer. Construction of a middle school in Kentucky could be in limbo as a result of reallocated funds.

This is a compilation of stories from across the USA TODAY Network. Want The Short List straight to your inbox? Sign up, and tell your friends. 

Source Article from https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/2019/02/18/new-iphone-jussie-smollett-national-emergency-mondays-top-news/2875638002/

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Wife Of Aurora Shooting Victim Reveals Husband’s Final Text Message – HuffPost
Wife Of Aurora Shooting Victim Reveals Husband’s Final Text Message – HuffPost

Pinkard described Josh, the newly appointed plant manager, as “brilliant,” her “best friend” and “the man I would have leaned on during devastation like this who would tell me it’s ok Terra, it is all going to be fine.”

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Jussie Smollett Case: Clues Into Potential Motive Behind The Attack – CBS Chicago
Jussie Smollett Case: Clues Into Potential Motive Behind The Attack – CBS Chicago

(CBS) –“Empire” actor Jussie Smollett, upset after a racist letter sent to the show’s studio didn’t get a “bigger reaction,” is suspected of paying two men to attack him a week later, according to multiple sources with direct knowledge of the investigation.

“When the letter didn’t get enough attention, he concocted the staged attack,” a source told CBS 2 Investigator Brad Edwards. Other sources corroborated that information.

TIMELINE:  Key Developments In The Jussie Smollett Case 

FULL COVERAGE: Read CBS 2’s Coverage Of The Case

The blockbuster revelation into at least part of Smollett’s potential motive comes two days after CBS 2’s Charlie De Mar reported Smollett and two brothers — Ola and Abel Osundairo — staged the attack on Jan. 29 in Streeterville.

De Mar spoke on the phone exclusively with the Osundairo brothers Monday afternoon. In a joint statement, they said: “We are not racist. We are not homophobic and we are not anti-Trump. We were born and raised in Chicago and are American citizens.”

Smollett received a letter containing a white powder Jan. 22. The letter was mailed to Chicago’s Cinespace Studios, where the show “Empire” is filmed. The letter prompted a HAZMAT response. CPD says the “white substance” was later determined to be aspirin.

The letter that targeted Jussie Smollett, which was sent to the ‘Empire’ set. (Credit: ThatGrapeJuice.net)

The note was crafted with letters apparently cut out from magazines to form words. The pieced-together message contained racial and homophobic threats directed at Smollett. A magazine is one of the pieces of evidence retrieved from the brother’s home last week during a search conducted by CPD. Investigators also recovered a book of stamps.

The brothers are acquaintances of Smollett.

When asked about the letter in a televised interview last week, Smollett said, “On the letter, it had a stick figure hanging from a tree with a gun pointing toward it.” It also had “MAGA” — reference to President Donald Trump’s campaign slogan Make America Great Again – written as the return address.

“In due course all the facts will reveal themselves, and at the end of the day, my clients are honest and credible,” the brothers’ attorney Gloria Schmidt said.

During the search of the brothers’ home last week, a “piece of paper/writing” was also seized. CBS 2 is the only news source with video from inside that house. Police evidence logs exclusively obtained by CBS 2, show investigators took the writing sample, magazine, and a “wallet with stamps.”

Police left behind and inventory of items taken during the raid of the home of two potential suspects in the Jussie Smollett case.

Chicago police say the FBI is handling the investigation surrounding the letter, because that’s a federal-level concern.

Smollett claims two men attacked him in Streeterville early Jan. 29 as he was heading to his apartment. He said they yelled racial and homophobic slurs at him, poured a chemical on him and put a rope around his neck.

Sources say at least one of the brothers bought the rope used in the incident at Smollett’s request. The sources also say the “Empire” actor paid for the rope, which was purchased at the Crafty Beaver Hardware Store in the Ravenswood neighborhood the weekend of Jan. 25.

Sources said one of the brothers held the rope and poured bleach while the other wore a plain red hat and yelled slurs at Smollett.

The sources say the red hat was bought at an Uptown beauty supply store and that the attack was supposed to happen before Jan. 29. The brothers told detectives the three men rehearsed the attack days prior to it happening. Smollett paid the brothers $3,500.

When Edwards reached out to CPD, immediately prior to this reporting, a spokesperson responded via text:

“We are not doing any interviews or making any official statements until we can corroborate some information that was shared with police. Until we meet with the Empire cast member, we are not able to confirm, deny or comment on any of the information that was released unofficially.

“When this investigation is over, we will have a detailed accounting of the case. While we are not in a position to confirm, deny or comment on the validity of what’s been unofficially released, there are some developments in this investigation and detectives have some follow-ups to complete which include additional investigation and speaking to the individual who reported the incident.”

Source Article from https://chicago.cbslocal.com/2019/02/18/jussie-smollet-motive-staged-attack/

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Turn in Venezuela Crisis Hinges on Aid Showdown at Border – The New York Times
Turn in Venezuela Crisis Hinges on Aid Showdown at Border – The New York Times

In Curacao, opposition officials were buoyed by the willingness of the country’s foreign minister to stage aid along a sea corridor long used by Venezuelan migrants to flee the country. But in recent days, plans appeared to be falling apart as politicians in Curacao objected to the use of the aid as a political weapon.

The uncertainty has left some in Venezuela not counting on aid anytime soon.

“They say they are in charge of the government, but the ones who are in charge are the ones who control the bridge,” said Héctor Cárdenas, 52, who crossed the border to buys a month’s worth of cooking oil, vegetables, soap and medicines in Colombia. “The opposition has no real power.”

John R. Bolton, Mr. Trump’s national security adviser, said the United States did not plan to deploy American military personnel to deliver the aid. Instead, the plan is for it to be brought in by Venezuelan volunteers.

Regardless, the outcome would not be ideal for Mr. Maduro, Mr. Bolton told reporters in Miami before Mr. Trump’s speech.

If the Venezuelan military blocks the aid, Mr. Bolton said, the world would see Mr. Maduro’s “true colors,” Mr. Bolton said.

“We hope that the press will be there to see the Maduro loyalists stopping humanitarian assistance from going to the poor people of Venezuela,” Mr. Bolton said. “People want to know why the Venezuelan people are rising up. That act by Maduro would be proof beyond words.”

Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/18/world/americas/venezuela-guaido-maduro-trump.html

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California AG Becerra says states to sue over Trump’s national emergency declaration – CNN
California AG Becerra says states to sue over Trump’s national emergency declaration – CNN

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(CNN)California Attorney General Xavier Becerra is preparing to file a lawsuit challenging President Donald Trump’s national emergency declaration, Becerra told CNN’s Kate Bolduan Monday.

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Memo to Trump: If this be ‘treason,’ make the least of it – Washington Examiner
Memo to Trump: If this be ‘treason,’ make the least of it – Washington Examiner

When ordinary people too cavalierly throw around the word “treasonous,” they devalue civil discourse and constitutional understanding. When a president wantonly uses the word, he himself is being almost, well, treasonous.

And if that second sentence above is a slight overstatement, even with the modifier “almost” included, well, it’s still a lot closer to truth and reason than it was for President Trump to tweet the accusation Monday morning at two top law-enforcement officials. Trump concluded a series of tweets by saying that Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein and then-Acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe had done something “ illegal and treasonous” in questioning his fitness for office.

No, Mr. President. What they did was patriotic by some lights, and at the very least was dutiful. But what you do by your charges of “treason,” coming from the Oval Office, is to dangerously ratchet up the political temperature. The president is not a king. Opposition to him is not a crime. And mere consideration of a constitutional provision to remove him is nowhere near treason.

Trump was reacting to McCabe telling TV newsmagazine “60 Minutes” that he and Rosenstein were at least somewhat serious in wondering whether Trump was mentally fit for office, and in trying to figure out ways to ascertain the answer in a way that would be dispositive – including including a wiretap if it could be done legally. In doing so, they were in the very earliest stages of considering use of the Constitution’s 25th Amendment, a section of which allows for the removal of an incapacitated president.

It is almost inarguable that Trump acts strangely sometimes, and mercurially and rashly. It is beyond question that a spirited public debate was occurring about whether Trump was indeed mentally unfit in 25th Amendment terms. The amendment is there for good reason. Prior presidents have suffered incapacitation. Witness former President Woodrow Wilson, who suffered a stroke and was forced to rely on his wife to carry on his official duties.

The amendment is not to be used lightly, and it contains significant internal safeguards against misuse. It was a well-considered reaction by the public at large, supported by two thirds of Congress and by the legislatures of three-fourths of the states, to the assassination of former President John F. Kennedy.

To even suggest that the mere consideration of beginning a process of ascertaining a president’s mental fitness is illegal, much less treasonous, is to suggest that the 25th Amendment itself should be ignored. It is to suggest that the American people acted illegitimately in instituting the amendment, and that public officials are acting unlawfully by taking it seriously. It is to suggest that the president is a law unto himself, and that the mere act of questioning his fitness is not just a crime, but also is the single worst crime against the state itself that the Constitution recognizes.

A president holds a unique position of power. When he yells “treason,” it carries particular weight. And when he uses it to suggest that questioning him is illegitimate, he at least suggests that he is above the law.

For Trump to use the word treason in this way, as he now has done several times during his presidency, is to create a public impression which, if it takes hold, would undermine our constitutional order.

Of course, we all know that Trump tweets with abandon and often from ignorance. We know we aren’t supposed to take all his tweets literally. But that doesn’t excuse him. It just means we have even more reason to question his judgment, even if not his sanity.

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In North Carolina, Investigators Find Ballot ‘Scheme’ in House Race – The New York Times
In North Carolina, Investigators Find Ballot ‘Scheme’ in House Race – The New York Times

The fraud allegations, and especially the sprawling inquiry that resulted, have left the Ninth District without representation in the House since early January, when the new Congress convened. Republicans have held the seat since 1963, and Mr. Harris defeated Representative Robert M. Pittenger in a primary last year.

Even in a state capital that has lately a hub of headspinning political debates, Monday’s hearing bordered on the surreal. Before the proceedings began, a young girl stood next to her mother in the cold and held a sign reading: “Thou Shalt Not Covet Thy Neighbor’s Votes!”

Inside the State Bar of North Carolina building, which hosted the hearing, the Libertarian candidate stood in the lobby to hand out news releases and offer banana walnut bread. Outside Witness Room 2 stood Mr. Dowless, his hands in the pockets of his suit. Later, when his stepdaughter testified that she had sometimes filled in uncompleted ballots, Mr. Dowless listened from near the back of the hearing room, his head bowed and eyes closed.

Regardless of the state board’s decision, the United States House of Representatives might intervene.

The House, which has the constitutional authority to be “the judge of the elections, returns and qualifications of its own members,” was closely monitoring Monday’s proceedings. Rows ahead of Mr. Dowless, and just a few yards from Mr. Harris, a man quietly observed the proceedings.

His seat was reserved for a lawyer for the House.

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Sailor kissing woman in iconic V-J Day photo at Times Square dies at 95 – USA TODAY
Sailor kissing woman in iconic V-J Day photo at Times Square dies at 95 – USA TODAY
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George Mendonsa, the man in the photo of a sailor kissing a woman in New York City’s Times Square after World War II, died at age 95.
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The man in the iconic photo of an exuberant Navy sailor kissing a woman in New York City’s Times Square at the end of World War II has died. 

George Mendonsa, 95, had a seizure and fell in an assisted living facility in Middletown, Rhode Island, his daughter, Sharon Molleur, told the Providence Journal. He lived there with his wife of 70 years, Rita, and died Sunday, two days short of his 96th birthday. 

The photo was taken Aug. 14, 1945, which is known as V-J Day, the day Japan officially surrendered to the United States in World War II. Published in Life magazine as “V-J Day in Times Square,” it came to represent how joyful Americans and people across the world felt at the end of the war, in which 406,000 Americans died and 671,000 were wounded, according to the U.S. Census Bureau. Other commemorations of V-J Day mark Sept. 2, 1945, the Japan formally surrendered to Allied forces.

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When photographer Alfred Eisenstaedt snapped the picture in 1945, he did not document any information about the photo’s subjects, and their identities were a mystery for years. Even today, people have used everything from 3D face scanning to the position of the sun in the photo to try to determine exactly whom the couple was. 

Mendonsa kissed dental assistant Greta Zimmer Friedman, mistakenly thinking she was a nurse in the war because of her uniform. She came to represent the 342,000 women the Census Bureau says served in the war as pilots, nurses and more.

Friedman reached out to Life in the 1960s after seeing the photo in a book of Eisenstaedt’s photography to notify the magazine it was her in the picture. The magazine told her it was another woman until 1980 when representatives contacted her and she met with Eisenstaedt, according to an interview with the Library of Congress.   

Mendonsa’s identity was verified by a 2012 book titled “The Kissing Sailor: The Mystery Behind the Photo That Ended World War II,” although some are still skeptical. 

Friedman died in 2016 at 92 years old after a struggle with pneumonia. She was buried in Arlington National Cemetery with her husband.

Contributing: The Associated Press 

 

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The 47 most outrageous lines from Donald Trump’s wild national emergency declaration – CNN
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    Trump lashes out at ‘treasonous’ officials after McCabe interview – BBC News
    Trump lashes out at ‘treasonous’ officials after McCabe interview – BBC News
    Media captionMcCabe: “There were concerns about Trump’s intent”

    US President Donald Trump has issued an angry response after a TV interview on Sunday alleged that officials had held discussions to have him removed.

    Mr Trump tweeted of “illegal and treasonous” behaviour and an “illegal coup attempt”.

    In the interview, ex-acting FBI chief Andrew McCabe said talks had been held in 2017 about invoking a clause that can remove a president deemed unfit.

    The Senate Judiciary Committee chairman has vowed to investigate the claims.

    Lindsey Graham said the claims were an “attempted bureaucratic coup”.

    Mr McCabe said Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein had held discussions on the number of cabinet members and others needed to invoke the clause, the 25th Amendment of the US Constitution.

    How has Mr Trump responded to the claims?

    In a series of tweets on Monday morning, he condemned “so many lies by now disgraced acting FBI Director Andrew McCabe. He was fired for lying and now his story gets even more deranged.

    “He and Rod Rosenstein, who was hired by [then Attorney General] Jeff Sessions (another beauty), look like they were planning a very illegal act, and got caught.”

    Mr Trump added: “There is a lot of explaining to do to the millions of people who had just elected a president who they really like and who has done a great job for them with the military. Vets. Economy and so much more. This was the illegal and treasonous ‘insurance policy’ in full action!”

    The president quoted a comment on the Fox and Friends programme saying this was “an illegal coup attempt”, adding “True!”

    The White House said Mr McCabe, who was fired last year for allegedly lying to government investigators, had “no credibility”.

    The justice department said Mr McCabe’s account was “inaccurate and factually incorrect”.

    What’s the background to this?

    Allegations that Mr Rosenstein discussed invoking the 25th Amendment were first reported last year by the New York Times.

    However, Mr McCabe’s quotes are the first to be made on the record from someone present at the meeting where the alleged comments were reportedly made – in May 2017, after Mr Trump fired FBI director James Comey.

    “The discussion of the 25th Amendment was simply [that] Rod raised the issue and discussed it with me in the context of thinking about how many other cabinet officials might support such an effort,” he said.

    Mr McCabe also said Mr Rosenstein was openly “counting votes, or possible votes” and that he was “very concerned” about the president “his capacity and about his intent at that point in time.”

    “To be fair, it was an unbelievably stressful time… it was really something that he kind of threw out in a very frenzied chaotic conversation.”

    Mr Rosenstein has previously strongly denied having such discussions, saying there was “no basis” to invoking the amendment.

    What else did Mr McCabe say?

    In the 60 Minutes interview, aired on Sunday, Mr McCabe also covered allegations Mr Rosenstein had offered to secretly record Mr Trump, amid concerns about possible obstruction of justice relating to the investigation into alleged collusion between the president’s campaign team and Russia.

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    Rod Rosenstein previously said there was “no basis to invoke the 25th Amendment”

    When the allegations first emerged in the New York Times, Mr Rosenstein said the report was “inaccurate and factually incorrect”.

    A source told the BBC at the time that Mr Rosenstein’s comment “was sarcastic and was never discussed with any intention of recording a conversation with the president”.

    However, Mr McCabe said that Mr Rosenstein “was not joking. He was absolutely serious”.

    “It was incredibly turbulent, incredibly stressful. And it was clear to me that that stress was – was impacting the deputy attorney general.”

    He added: “I never actually considered taking him up on the offer.”

    What was Sen Graham’s response?

    He described Mr McCabe’s comments as “stunning” and pledged to hold a hearing at the Senate Judiciary Committee to determine “who’s telling the truth”.

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    Senator Lindsey Graham said he was “stunned” by the latest comments by Andrew McCabe

    H said he could issue subpoenas – a court order forcing a witness to appear to give testimony – “if that’s what it takes”.

    The powerful committee he chairs oversees the US judiciary.

    What is the 25th Amendment?

    It provides for the removal of a president if he or she is “unable to discharge the powers and duties of office”. What this exactly means is open to interpretation.

    Duties are transferred to the vice-president.

    Media captionThe 25th Amendment: Could it be used to unseat Trump?

    Activating the relevant section of the 25th Amendment would require the approval of eight of the 15 members of Mr Trump’s cabinet, the vice-president and two-thirds majorities in Congress.

    Ronald Reagan and George W Bush used the amendment to temporarily transfer power when they were medically anaesthetised.

    Who is Andrew McCabe?

    He took over as acting director of the FBI in 2017 and was himself fired as deputy director in March last year just two days before he was due to retire.

    He was sacked by Jeff Sessions, who said an internal review had found he leaked information and misled investigators.

    Mr McCabe denied the claims and said he was being targeted because of his involvement in the Russian collusion inquiry.

    He has now written a book on his time in his posts.

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    Aurora shooting victim texted his wife during rampage: ‘I love you, I’ve been shot at work’ – Fox News
    Aurora shooting victim texted his wife during rampage: ‘I love you, I’ve been shot at work’ – Fox News
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    Aurora shooting victim’s heartbreaking text to his wife during rampage

    Josh Pinkard was one of five people killed at the Henry Pratt warehouse in Aurora, Illinois. As he lay dying he managed to send one last text to his wife saying he loved her. Pinkard’s wife Terra details the heart-wrenching story of receiving the text and finally hearing the news before having to tell her children that their father has been killed.

    One of the victims in Friday’s workplace shooting in Illinois texted his wife as he lay dying to tell her he loved her, the man’s wife said.

    Josh Pinkard was one of five people killed at the Henry Pratt warehouse in Aurora by a man who police say opened fire after being terminated. Pinkard, 37, of Oswego, Ill., was the plant manager.

    “I received a text at 1:24 from my precious husband that said I love you, I’ve been shot at work,” Terra Pinkard said on Facebook Sunday. “It took me several times reading it for it to hit me that it was for real.”

    She said she tried to reach him — to no avail.

    “I called his phone several times, text, FaceTime, nothing,” she said. “I called his plant and a lady answered and said she was barricaded in her room and police were everywhere. Of course, my heart dropped.”

    AURORA SHOOTER OPENED FIRE AT TERMINATION MEETING; ONE VICTIM WAS HR INTERN ON FIRST DAY

    She said that hours later she was told her husband was one of those who had been killed.

    “With my pastor’s help, since my family was still on planes to get to us, I told my children their dad did not make it and is in heaven with Jesus,” Pinkard said. “I’ve never had to do something that hard.”

    Pinkard said her husband was the smartest person she ever met, her best friend and “the man I would have leaned on during devastation like this.”

    “The man who was dying and found the clarity of mind for just a second to send me one last text to let me know he would always love me,” she said.

    Authorities said Gary Martin pulled out a gun and began shooting after being told he was being fired after 15 years for various workplace violations. Martin, 45, was killed in a shootout with officers.

    MORE THAN 1,500 ATTEND VIGIL FOR AURORA SHOOTING VICTIMS

    The other four victims were Clayton Parks, Russell Beyer, Vicente Juarez and Trevor Wehner, a 21-year-old human resources intern on his first day on the job.

    Five cops were wounded after responding to the scene.

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    More than 1,500 people braved snow and freezing drizzle to attend a prayer vigil for the five victims Sunday in Aurora.

    The Associated Press contributed to this report.

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