The accidents have put Boeing on the defensive. The 737 Max is Boeing’s best-selling jet ever and expected to be a major driver of profit with around 5,000 of the planes on order. Its shares have fallen about 13 percent this week.

Following the Indonesia crash, Boeing was expected to updated its software and training guidelines so that airlines can teach their pilots to fly the planes more safely and easily. That software update is planned for April.

“Boeing is an incredible company,” Mr. Trump said. “They are working very, very hard right now and hopefully they’ll very quickly come up with the answer, but until they do, the planes are grounded.”

On Tuesday morning, Boeing’s chief executive, Dennis A. Muilenburg, had called Mr. Trump to personally express his confidence in the safety of the jets, according to two people briefed on the conversation.

The brief call had already been in the works, but it happened to come shortly after Mr. Trump raised concerns that airplanes were becoming too complex to fly and therefore endangering passengers. “Pilots are no longer needed, but rather computer scientists from MIT,” he wrote on Twitter.

Boeing said it supported the decision to ground the planes.

“We are supporting this proactive step out of an abundance of caution,” Mr. Muilenburg said. “We are doing everything we can to understand the cause of the accidents in partnership with the investigators, deploy safety enhancements and help ensure this does not happen again.”

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NEW YORK –  State prosecutors in Manhattan hit Paul Manafort with a new indictment Wednesday, roughly an hour after the disgraced former Trump campaign manager received his latest federal prison term.

Unlike the two federal cases in which Manafort has been sentenced to prison, a conviction on the charges announced by Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus Vance would be beyond the reach of any pardon issued by President Donald Trump.

Federal prosecutors have said they suspect Manafort could be angling for a pardon to secure his freedom. The White House has not ruled out the possibility that he could receive one. Asked about the possibility of a pardon at the White House on Wednesday, Trump said he has “not even given it a thought,” though added he feels “very badly” for his former campaign chairman.

The 16-count New York indictment alleges that Manafort received more than $1 million by working with unnamed others to willfully submit false financial statements when applying for residential mortgage loans.

The charges include residential mortgage fraud, conspiracy, falsifying business records, and participating in a scheme to defraud. The alleged crimes were committed between December 22, 2015, and approximately March 7, 2016, the indictment charged. 

“No one is beyond the law in New York,” Vance said in a statement issued with the charges. “Following an investigation commenced by our office in March 2017, a Manhattan grand jury has charged Mr. Manafort with state criminal violations which strike at the heart of New York’s sovereign interests, including the integrity of our residential mortgage market.”

Manafort’s lawyers did not immediately respond to questions about the new charges.

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A federal judge on Wednesday sentenced the longtime political operative to a total of 7½ years in federal prison, adding 43 months to the sentence he received in another federal case in Virginia last week.

Manafort had pleaded guilty to two felonies in Washington as part of special counsel Robert Mueller’s nearly two-year investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election. A federal jury in Virginia separately convicted him of tax and bank fraud charges in a related case. 

The pair of prison sentences marked a dramatic downfall for Manafort, who helped guide Trump to the presidency. 

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Some of the federal charges against Manafort included evidence about New York City properties he bought and the mortgages obtained for the transactions. Vance has legal jurisdiction because at least one of the real estate transactions allegedly involving mortgages issued on the basis of falsified financial information took place in Manhattan.

Vance’s office did not immediately respond to a question about whether the new indictment was meant as a way to prevent Manafort from going free if Trump decides to pardon him. 

Andrew Weissmann, a member of Mueller’s legal team, told U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson on  Feb. 4 that prosecutors thought Manafort, who had promised to cooperate with the Russia investigation, executed an about-face and lied to the prosecutors as a way to “augment his chances for a pardon.”

Trump has tweeted praise of Manafort as a “brave man!” and someone who refused to “break” like Michael Cohen, the president’s former personal lawyer, who has provided evidence in at least two criminal probes centered on Trump and denounced his former boss in spectacular testimony before Congress.

However, Trump has declined to comment repeatedly on whether he’s considering a move to spare Manafort from punishment.

White House spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said Monday that Trump “has made his position on that clear, and he’ll make a decision when he is ready.” 

The legal question of defendants can be prosecuted twice for the same offenses – once by federal authorities and once by state law enforcement officials – is a subject in a pending U.S. Supreme Court case. Such dual prosecutions have been authorized under the 1959 “dual sovereignty” exception to the Fifth Amendment’s Double Jeopardy clause; the court is considering whether to reverse that position. 

A coalition of liberal and conservative justices appeared unlikely to do that when the nation’s top court heard oral arguments on the issue in December.

Jansen reported from Washington. Contributing: Richard Wolf and John Fritze

 

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British lawmakers on Wednesday took another step towards delaying Brexit, when it voted to reject the U.K. leaving the European Union without a withdrawal agreement — just weeks before the country is scheduled to do exactly that.

The vote, on an amendment to reject a “no-deal” Brexit under any circumstance, squeezed by 312-308 and marks the latest defeat for the Conservative-led government a day after Parliament overwhelmingly voted down Prime Minister Theresa May’s deal for a second time, just weeks before the U.K. is due to leave the bloc on March 29.

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The defeat is yet another blow for May, who has seen defeat after defeat for her approach to Brexit, plunging Britain into an even deeper political crisis — with no immediate end in sight. The amendment that passed changed the language of a government motion that May had announced a day earlier that would have expressed disapproval of ‘no-deal Brexit” but the language in the so-called Spelman Amendment goes a step further and rules it out entirely.

Wednesday’s motion is entirely symbolic and does not change the situation on the ground that Britain will leave the E.U. on March 29 without a deal unless an extension to its departure is secured, or May’s withdrawal agreement is approved by lawmakers. But it will lead to a vote on Thursday, in which lawmakers will vote on a motion to request that Britain’s depature be extended until June — but it is far from clear that the E.U. will grant such a request.

‘We live under a system of law, and a motion passed in Parliament does not override the law,” Pro-Brexit MP Jacob Rees-Mogg told Sky News after the Wednesday vote. “The Withdrawal Act means we live on the March 29 under UK law and the Article 50 Act we means leave on March 29 under E.U. law.”

In the absence of a delay or a withdrawal agreement, Britain is scheduled to leave the bloc without a deal and revert to World Trade Organization (WTO) terms. Business groups and pro-E.U. politicians, including some in May’s government, have said that a “no deal” Brexit would be catastrophic, leading to chaos at ports and shortages across the country. Some pro-Brexit lawmakers have called that such fears are overblown and part of what they have dubbed “Project Fear.”

But on Wednesday before the vote, May’s opponents declared her to be responsible for Britain’s political uncertainty and said that she had lost the ability to lead the country through the choppy waters ahead.

“The prime minister’s deal has failed, she no longer has the ability to lead, this is a rudderless government in the face of a huge national crisis,” Labour Party leader Jeremy Corbyn declared in Parliament on Wednesday.

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Earlier, he called on her to abandon her red lines for a deal “and face the reality of the situation she has got herself, this party, this parliament and this country into.”

May, her voice hoarse and weak as she apparently battles illness, was defiant, and accused Corbyn of voting “in a way that brings no-deal closer.”

“I may not have my own voice but I do understand the voice of the country,” she said. “People want to leave the E.U., they want to end free movement, they want to have our own trade policy, they want to make sure laws are made in this country and judged in our courts. That’s what the deal delivers, that’s what I will continue to work to deliver.”

Corbyn, a day earlier, said it was time for a general election, after declaring “the clock has been run out” on May.

May was also under intense pressure from her own ranks, particularly members of the fiercely pro-Brexit wing of her party who helped vote the deal down over concerns about the backstop — a safety net that would keep Britain in a customs union until a trade deal was agreed to so as to prevent a hard border between Ireland and Northern Ireland.

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Brexiteers have expressed concern that the lack of a unilateral exit mechanism could lead to Britain never actually leaving the E.U. or being forced to accept bad terms. May sought changes to the deal to assure jumpy MPs but it wasn’t enough to assuage Parliament on Tuesday, where her agreement was defeated 391-242.

May fought off a vote of no confidence in her leadership of the party in December, and in the government in January. But the latest rejection of her deal has seemingly refueled calls for her to stand down or call a general election.

“I think there is an issue that the Prime Minister is not capable of changing course, and that is catastrophic for the country and I think she should stand down,” Labour Party MP Liz Kendall said on BBC.

When asked about Kendall’s comments, Tory Party MP Steve Baker — who previously called for her to stand down — appeared to agree with Kendall’s assessment of May’s attitude but said that “given past events, I’d be well advised to say no more about it”

Pro-Remain Tory MP Nicky Morgan, meanwhile told Sky News that: “If votes today go against her I do think it makes her position very, very difficult”

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Ahead of the vote on Wednesday, the Times of London reported that May, in an effort to face off another rebellion from her backbenches, was to allow a free vote on an alternative Brexit plan known as the Malthouse compromise — named after housing minister Kit Malthouse who had forged the agreement between Brexiteers and Remainer MPs.

That compromise plan would extend Britain’s departure until May, and then place Britain and the E.U.’s relationship in a “transitional standstill” until 2021 to allow for a “no deal” Brexit if a trade deal was not achieved. But that vote was shot down 374-164.

Even if the E.U agrees to a Brexit delay, it is unclear what would change in three months to resolve the impasse.

The alternatives are a general election, for May to step down voluntarily (she cannot be challenged by her own party until December) and be replaced by another prime minister who would offer a different approach, a no-deal Brexit or a second referendum — something that the Labour Party and other pro-E.U. parties have called for.

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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi provided a Band-Aid to President Trump’s unconstitutional yet literally legal national emergency in the form of a vote to overturn his declaration. Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, has now unveiled the permanent solution.

Lee’s Article One Act would formally update the National Emergencies Act, mandating that Congress vote to approve a national emergency within 30 days of its declaration, otherwise it expires. Congress abdicated their responsibility to check the emergency powers of the president long ago, and the necessary solution would always be a bill that restricts the president’s emergency powers — temporarily or for good. Lee’s bill does the latter.

Predictably, the Article One Act is dead on arrival in the House if it provides cover for Republicans not to vote to overturn Trump’s declaration. So Republicans are left with one real option: vote yes on both Pelosi and Lee’s bills.

If Trump’s declaration passes, Democrats will come back gloating in two or six years with their own phony national emergencies. Gun confiscation? It’s an emergency! Funding federal jobs guarantees? It’s an emergency! Killing all the farting cows? It’s an emergency.

Sure, Pelosi’s resolution will give the White House an embarrassing news cycle, but Lee’s would actually fix the problem for good. Republican cowards who refuse to overturn the emergency declaration now that Lee’s bill is on the table aren’t just betraying their duty to check the executive branch, they’re throwing away a pristine opportunity to protect the public from socialist insanity if one of the most insane Democratic candidates wins back the White House in 2020 or beyond.

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SUZANO, Brazil, March 13 (Reuters) – Two armed men wearing face masks entered a Brazilian elementary school Wednesday and shot and killed at least six children who were on their snack breaks, as well as two school officials, before fatally turning their guns on themselves, police said.

Ten people, including the gunmen, were killed in total, Sao Paulo police said.

The unidentified gunmen, who appeared to be between 20 and 25 years of age, shot and killed a worker at a nearby car wash before their attack at the Raul Brasil school, police said. More than 1,000 children aged between 11 and 15 attend classes there.

Another 17 people – mostly school kids – were shot and injured, and several of them were in serious condition, said police, who were not yet aware of a motive for the violence.

Marcelo Salles, commander of police forces in Sao Paulo state, spoke just outside the school and said that in his over three decades of service, he had “never seen anything like this, it was an unspeakably brutal crime.”

Salles said the gunmen used at least one .38 caliber pistol, along with homemade bombs and a crossbow. Police arrived eight minutes after the shooting started and did not confront the gunmen, who had already killed themselves, he said.

A homemade video taken during the shooting and aired by Globo TV showed children screaming, running and begging for their lives as loud shots were heard all around.

Security cameras from homes near the school showed children climbing and jumping over a white wall that surrounds the Raul Brasil building, and sprinting down streets, screaming for help.

School shootings are rare in Brazil, even though the country is one of the world’s most violent, with more annual homicides than any other. The last major school shooting was in 2011, when 12 children were shot dead by a former pupil in Rio de Janeiro.

While gun laws are extremely strict in Brazil, it is not difficult to illegally purchase a weapon.

Police said the two men, who they did not believe were former students at the school, entered the building and started shooting at about 9:30 a.m. local time.

Another shooting took place about 500 meters from the Raul Brasil school shortly before the killings at the school, but it was not yet clear if the two incidents were related.

Sao Paulo Governor Joao Doria said as he stood outside the school that “our solidarity goes out to the families of the victims.”

“I was shocked with the scenes I saw inside that school,” Doria said. “It is the saddest thing I have seen in my life.” (Reporting by Leonardo Benassatto in Suzano, Brad Brooks in Sao Paulo and Pedro Fonseca in Rio de Janeiro; Additional reporting by Caroline Mandl in Sao Paulo; Writing by Brad Brooks; Editing by Bernadette Baum)

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Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday’s crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner’s flight controls just before the plane went down.

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Relatives of the 157 people who died in Sunday’s crash of a Boeing 737 Max 8 were allowed to visit the site of the disaster Wednesday. Ethiopian Airlines says its pilot was well-trained — and that he had reported trouble with the jetliner’s flight controls just before the plane went down.

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The Federal Aviation Administration says it is temporarily grounding all Boeing 737 Max aircraft operated by U.S. airlines or in U.S. territory.

The announcement Wednesday afternoon follows decisions by many other countries to ground the planes after 157 people died in Sunday’s crash of an Ethiopian Airlines 737 Max 8.

“The grounding will remain in effect pending further investigation, including examination of information from the aircraft’s flight data recorders and cockpit voice recorders,” the FAA said in a statement. “The agency made this decision as a result of the data gathering process and new evidence collected at the site and analyzed today. This evidence, together with newly refined satellite data available to FAA this morning, led to this decision.”

President Trump said earlier that any affected plane currently in the air will go to its destination and then will be grounded until further notice.

In a statement, Boeing said it “continues to have full confidence in the safety of the 737 MAX.”

“However, after consultation with the U.S. Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), the U.S. National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB), and aviation authorities and its customers around the world, Boeing has determined — out of an abundance of caution and in order to reassure the flying public of the aircraft’s safety — to recommend to the FAA the temporary suspension of operations of the entire global fleet of 371 737 MAX aircraft.”

For days, the FAA had said the planes are safe to fly. Major U.S. airlines such as Southwest— which uses 34 Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft — also expressed confidence in the plane.

Southwest seemed to indicate in a statement Wednesday that it had been caught off guard by the U.S. decision to ground the planes, saying the airline is “aware of media reports stating that the Boeing 737 MAX 8 fleet will be grounded in the United States. We are currently seeking confirmation and additional guidance from the FAA and will respond accordingly in the interest of aviation safety.”

American Airlines said it had been informed earlier in the day that the entire Boeing 737 MAX fleet would be grounded “out of an abundance of caution.” The emergency order will affect 24 of the airline’s planes.

The FAA said Monday that it would require Boeing to improve how its flight control systems work, along with other design changes. The agency says there are 74 Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes registered in the U.S., with 387 worldwide.

After Sunday’s crash, Ethiopian Airlines grounded its four remaining 737 Max 8 planes. Dozens of countries, including Germany and China, also grounded their airlines’ 737 MAX 8s. In some places, such as India, Australia and the European Union, aviation authorities have banned the entire 737 Max family of planes from their airspace.

Canada took action Wednesday, with Transport Minister Marc Garneau announcing restrictions barring “any air operator, both domestic and foreign,” from flying the Boeing 737 Max 8 and 9 through Canadian airspace. Air Canada has taken delivery of 23 of the 737 Max planes, according to Boeing.

Despite previous reassurances in the U.S. about safety, concerns have continued to mount. Peter Goelz, a former managing director of the National Transportation Safety Board, told NPR:

“I have to say that yesterday was the first time I started to really have concerns myself, because I’ve worked with the British investigators and regulators. I’ve also worked with the German investigators. And I have the highest regard for them. These are not folks that would make haphazard judgments. So, I am concerned that some of the finest regulatory and investigative groups have now called for the grounding.

“I am beginning to be concerned about this airplane.”

Describing how the FAA functions, Goelz said the agency — which has sent a team of investigators to the crash site in Ethiopia — is “data-driven” and doesn’t make decisions on anecdotal evidence. “They really have a close working and regulatory relationship with Boeing,” he said.

The U.S. aviation system is essentially governed through cooperative and voluntary relationships between the government and manufacturers, Goelz said.

“There are not enough inspectors on the payroll to really have a ‘Gotcha!’ oversight,” he said. “So they cooperate very closely. And it’s a relationship that encourages the admittance of mistakes, it’s a relationship that has given us a very great system. But in times like this, it’s a relationship that certainly people question.”

Those questions include speculation about whether Boeing executives might have tried to influence the Trump administration in an effort to tamp down safety concerns about the 737 Max 8 — the fastest-selling plane in Boeing’s history, with more than 5,000 ordered.

Boeing CEO Dennis Muilenburg has spoken directly to Trump about the crash, according to Reuters, which notes that the two men have also spoken several times in the past — including negotiations over the price of the new Air Force One. The news agency also notes that acting Defense Secretary Patrick Shanahan was a longtime Boeing manager. And Nikki Haley, Trump’s former U.N. ambassador, has been nominated to join Boeing’s board.

The questions are surfacing months after U.S. pilots criticized Boeing in the wake of the Lion Air disaster, saying the plane-maker had not provided enough information or training about a critical aspect of its new flight control system, as NPR’s David Schaper reported in November.

The pilot of Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302 reported having flight control problems with the Boeing 737 Max 8 in the minutes before it crashed, airline CEO Tewolde GebreMariam says, providing new details about the disaster that killed 157 people on Sunday.

Pilot Yared Getachew, who had more than 8,000 flight hours of experience, “was having difficulties with the flight control” and requested a return to the airport in Addis Ababa, GebreMariam told CNN, citing recordings of communications between the plane and air traffic controllers.

Clearance for an immediate return was granted. But the plane didn’t make it back, crashing just six minutes after takeoff and stoking concerns about Boeing’s new Max 8 passenger jet — which was involved in another deadly crash under similar circumstances in Indonesia less than five months ago.

In both disasters, flight tracking data shows the pilots struggled to keep their aircrafts’ noses up and maintain altitude — an issue that U.S. regulators sought to address late last year, sending an emergency directive for all Boeing 737 Max 8 and Max 9 planes and warning of an “unsafe condition” that could lead to “excessive nose-down attitude, significant altitude loss, and possible impact with terrain.”

The Federal Aviation Administration ordered changes to the planes’ flight manuals and procedures in November — and Ethiopian Air says it followed those guidelines.

“There was an AD [airworthiness directive] released by Boeing” that was circulated to the airline’s pilots, GebreMariam said, referring to the emergency airworthiness directive that came out shortly after the Lion Air crash in Indonesian in October 2018.

“There was also a briefing on the AD,” the CEO said. “So yes, the pilots were well-briefed on the airworthiness directive.”

Several U.S. pilots who reported having trouble controlling Boeing 737 Max planes early in their flights used NASA’s Aviation Safety Reporting System to flag issues they encountered.

“In two cases, pilots flying in the U.S. late last year had their planes pitch down unexpectedly after departures. Both times, the crew disengaged the autopilot and were able to keep flying safely,” NPR’s Russell Lewis reports. “In a third report, a pilot complained that the Boeing 737 MAX’s flight manual was inadequate and ‘almost criminally insufficient.’ “

On Tuesday, the Allied Pilots Association, which represents American Airlines’ 15,000 pilots, issued a statement saying the union “remains confident in the Boeing 737 Max and in our members’ ability to safely fly it.”

The group said its pilots “have the necessary training and experience to troubleshoot problems and take decisive actions on the flight deck to protect our passengers and crew.”

While the union endorsed the continued use of the 737 Max, it added, “The flying public should also be aware that American Airlines’ Boeing 737 Max planes are unique.”

“The two dozen 737 Max aircraft in the American Airlines fleet are the only ones equipped with two AOA [Angle of Attack] displays, one for each pilot, providing an extra layer of awareness and warning,” the union said.

Those displays could be crucial in avoiding a sudden downward pitch, which Boeing and the FAA have acknowledged as a risk in the airworthiness bulletin that was issued shortly after the crash of Lion Air Flight 610.

The airworthiness directive said Boeing had found the automated anti-stall system on its 737 Max 8 and Max 9 models can be triggered by a sensor reporting an erroneously high angle of attack — meaning the system believes the nose is too high and the plane is stalling, even though it’s not.

The problem presents “a potential for repeated nose-down trim commands,” the directive states, noting, “This condition, if not addressed, could cause the flight crew to have difficulty controlling the airplane” and possibly resulting in a crash.

The investigation into the Ethiopian crash is still in its early stages, and experts have warned against drawing conclusions, despite similarities between the two deadly disasters. The Ethiopian Airlines plane’s digital flight data recorder and cockpit voice recorder were recovered Monday, and GebreMariam said they will be sent overseas for analysis, likely to either the U.S. or a European country.

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Washington (CNN)An attorney who said he was speaking with President Donald Trump’s lawyer Rudy Giuliani reassured Michael Cohen in an April 2018 email that Cohen could “sleep well tonight” because he had “friends in high places,” according to a copy of an email obtained by CNN.

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    (CNN)US pilots who fly the Boeing 737 Max have registered complaints about the way the jet has performed in flight, according to a federal database accessed by CNN.

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      LONDON (Reuters) – British lawmakers were on Wednesday set to stave off the threat of a no-deal exit from the European Union on March 29 but the second defeat of Prime Minister Theresa May’s divorce treaty has left the country heading into the Brexit unknown.

      After two-and-a-half years of tortuous divorce negotiations with the EU and two failed attempts to get her exit deal ratified by parliament, May said she would vote against a no-deal exit that investors fear would spook financial markets, dislocate supply chains and damage the world’s fifth largest economy.

      Lawmakers will vote shortly after 1900 GMT on a government motion which states that parliament rejects leaving the EU without a deal on March 29 but notes that leaving without a deal remains the legal default unless a deal is agreed.

      While the motion has no legal force and ultimately does not prevent a no-deal exit, if lawmakers support it as expected then they will get a vote on Thursday on whether to delay Brexit, probably by months.

      Finance minister Philip Hammond said he could free billions of pounds for extra public spending or tax cuts if parliament spared Britain the shock of leaving the world’s biggest trading bloc without an agreement to smooth the transition.

      “Leaving with no deal would mean significant disruption in the short and medium term and a smaller, less prosperous economy in the long term, than if we leave with a deal,” Hammond told parliament.

      Sterling was unmoved during Hammond’s speech, holding its earlier gains on the back of hopes that lawmakers will vote against a no-deal Brexit.

      After lawmakers crushed her deal for a second time on Tuesday, May said it was still the best option for leaving in an orderly fashion.

      “I want to leave the European Union with a good deal, I believe we have a good deal,” she told parliament. May said the government would not instruct her Conservative Party’s lawmakers how to vote.

      Lawmakers have submitted alternative proposals, including a plan for a “managed” no-deal exit, which could also be voted upon on Tuesday.

      As the United Kingdom’s three-year Brexit crisis spins towards its finale, diplomats and investors see four main options: a delay, May’s deal passing at the last minute, an accidental no-deal exit or another referendum.

      German Chancellor Angela Merkel said: “We have not given up the goal of an orderly exit (for Britain) but yesterday’s events mean the options have become narrower.”

      BREXIT DELAY?

      If Britain does seek a delay, all the bloc’s other 27 members must agree to it.

      The EU would prefer a short extension, with the deadline of EU-wide parliamentary elections due May 24-26. It is unclear how such a short extension could solve the Brexit impasse in London.

      EU Brexit negotiator Michel Barnier said the bloc would need to know why Britain wanted to extend talks and it was up to London to find a way out of the deadlock.

      “If the UK still wants to leave the EU in an orderly manner, this treaty is – and will remain – the only treaty possible,” Barnier told the European Parliament in Strasbourg.

      As Brexit uncertainty spills into foreign exchange, stock and bond markets across the world, investment banks such as Goldman Sachs and JPMorgan are offering different probabilities on the outcomes.

      “We continue to see a 55 percent chance that a close variant of the prime minister’s Brexit deal is eventually ratified, after a three-month extension of Article 50,” Goldman said. Its best guess was that a reversal of Brexit had a 35 percent probability and a no-deal Brexit a 10 percent probability.

      Brexit minister Stephen Barclay said no-deal remained preferable to staying in the EU.

      “If you pushed me to the end point where it’s a choice between no deal and no Brexit … I think no deal is going to be very disruptive for the economy and I think no deal also has serious questions for the union,” he told BBC radio.

      “But I think no Brexit is catastrophic for our democracy. Between those very unpleasant choices, I think no Brexit is the bigger risk.”

      The EU said there could be no more negotiations with London on the divorce terms.

      Britons voted by 52-48 percent in 2016 to leave the bloc, a decision that has split the main political parties and exposed deep rifts in British society.

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      Many fear Brexit will divide the West as it grapples with both the unconventional U.S. presidency of Donald Trump and growing assertiveness from Russia and China, leaving Britain economically weaker and with its security capabilities depleted.

      Supporters say it allows Britain to control immigration and take advantage of global trade opportunities, while keeping close links to the EU.

      Additional reporting by Elisabeth O’Leary and Alastair Macdonald in Brussels; Writing by Michael Holden and Guy Faulconbridge; Editing by Janet Lawrence

      Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu/britain-heads-into-brexit-unknown-as-parliament-votes-on-no-deal-exit-idUSKBN1QU0Z5

      William Rick Singer, founder of for-profit college prep business Edge College & Career Network also known as “The Key,” is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the largest college admissions scams to ever hit the U.S. and went to great lengths — which included pricey fees — to ensure his clients’ demands were met.

      Singer, 58, has been called the “ringleader” behind the scheme, purportedly collecting roughly $25 million from dozens of individuals including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin over the course of nearly a decade to bribe school coaches and administrators into pretending their children were athletic recruits to ensure their admission into top tier colleges, prosecutors say.

      The Newport Beach, Calif., businessman agreed to plead guilty in Boston federal court Tuesday to charges including racketeering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. As a part of his guilty plea, Singer said he would pay at least $3.4 million to the feds, The Boston Globe reports.

      3 OF THE MOST BIZARRE DETAILS OF THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL

      On his website for The Key, Singer describes himself as a dedicated father and coach who understands the pressure put on families surrounding college acceptances. The Key calls itself “the nation’s largest private life coaching and college counseling company.”

      William Rick Singer, founder of the Edge College and Career Network, pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. 
      (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

      “As founder of The Key, I have spent the past 25 years helping students discover their life passion, and guiding them along with their families through the complex college admissions maze. Using The Key method, our coaches help unlock the full potential of your son or daughter, and set them on a course to excel in life,” Singer stated online, providing biographies for seven other “coaches.”

      Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, reportedly claimed Singer’s clients paid him “anywhere between $200,000 and $6.5 million” for his unique services.

      FELICITY HUFFMAN, LORI LOUGHLIN AMONG 50 SNARED IN ELITE COLLEGE CHEATING SCAM, AUTHORITIES SAY

      Parents of prospective students allegedly conspired with a college entrance consultant to beat the system and ensure their students were admitted or had a better chance to be admitted to certain colleges or universities, including Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

      “According to the charging documents, Singer facilitated cheating on the SAT and ACT exams for his clients by instructing them to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the children purport to have learning disabilities in order to obtain the required medical documentation,” the U.S. Justice Department explained, in part, in an online statement.

      “Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do.”

      — Andrew Lelling

      However, that was just one of many ways Singer ensured the students got accepted to elite schools.

      “Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do,” Lelling said, adding that it “appears that the schools are not involved.”

      Prosecutors say the consultant represented to parents that the scheme had worked successfully more than 800 times.

      Singer also served as CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a non-profit he claimed was a charity. Bribery payments were disguised as donations to KWF in sums up to $75,000 per SAT or ACT exam, the Justice Department said, noting that many students didn’t realize their parents had staged anything.

      “This is a case where [the parents] flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat the system so they could set their children up for success with the best money can buy,” Joseph Bonavolonta from the FBI Boston Field Office said in a Tuesday news conference.

      In total, 50 people — including more than 30 parents and nine coaches — were charged Tuesday in the scheme.

      Fox News’ Katherine Lam,Travis Fedschun and The Assocaited Press contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-is-william-rick-singer-college-admissions-cheating-scandals-alleged-ringleader

      Judge Amy Berman Jackson spoke directly to Paul Manafort, President Trump’s former campaign chairman, about foreign lobbying, saying that he was lying directly to Americans and Congress.

      Manafort was watching Jackson with no smile, almost sheepishly.

      She then moved on to describing the witness tampering offense against Manafort.

      Jackson said Manafort “immediately began reaching out to witnesses” involved in Hapsburg group to “remind them” all the work in Europe he did.

      “He isn’t being straight with me now” about it, she said.

      Jackson continued: “He did not plead guilty to contacting witnesses. He pled guilty to conspiring” with his Russian associate Konstantin Kilimnik to contact the witnesses.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/paul-manafort-sentencing-dc/index.html

      As the Senate prepares to join the House in rebuking President Trump’s emergency declaration to seize money to build his wall, the president hasn’t quite got the message that Congress isn’t on board with pouring billions of dollars into barriers at the southern border.

      Nevertheless, Trump is ready to try again with his well-worn strategy of simply demanding money. Indeed, on Monday, the White House submitted the administration’s 2020 budget proposal to Congress, which includes an $8.6 billion ask for a border wall funding.

      For a bit of comparison, that $8.6 billion contained in the new budget proposal is more than Trump was hoping to get even when both chambers of Congress were controlled by Republicans. Indeed, the wall funding fight that shutdown the government in December, before the House flipped to Democrats, was over $5.7 billion.

      It’s also more than the current split Congress was willing to give him earlier this year ($1.375 billion) and more than he’s currently able to get through his controversial emergency declaration ( up to $8 billion).

      Perhaps Trump is betting that lawmakers have changed their minds, or that this time they will cave to presidential wishes. Either way, those are bets he’s bound to lose. More demands aren’t going to make much headway in convincing Congress to increase funding for border security.

      If Trump is serious about border security and thinks that more wall is the best way to do it, he’d do well to start with the $1.375 billion already allocated and makes his case on the success of the new sections he builds. Or if he is desperate to have the funding now, he’d find a new, less sure-to-fail way to ask for it — perhaps by first working with Congress to reach an agreement on what amount of funding might be possible.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/banging-his-head-against-the-wall-trump-still-wont-get-his-billions

      Scores of children are feared dead or trapped inside after a three-story school building collapsed during school hours in Lagos, Nigeria, prompting frantic rescue efforts.

      Some children were rescued from the rubble by the first-responders, with hundreds of onlookers cheering the efforts as they stood in narrow streets and on rooftops of rusted, corrugated metal.

      In this image taken from video rescue workers and emergency teams work at the scene of a building collapse in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday March 13, 2019. A three-story building has collapsed in Lagos, and rescuers rush to pull out scores of children thought to be inside. There was no immediate official word on numbers of casualties.
      (AP)

      Others volunteered in the rescue operations, jumping into the rubble with hacksaws and mallets in their hands.

      MAN NARROWLY AVOIDS FALLING BRICKS AS HE WALKS PAST COLLAPSING BUILDING

      So far it remains unclear how many children exactly have died or are still trapped.

      “For now we don’t have any word on casualties as we are still busy with rescue work,” said Sani Datti, a spokesman with Nigeria’s National Emergency Management Agency.

      “It is believed that many people including children are currently trapped in the building,” another spokesperson for the agency told the BBC.

      RESCUE OPERATION IN ISTANBUL AFTER 8-STORY BUILDING COLLAPSES, KILLING ONE, TRAPPING OTHERS UNDER RUBBLE

      Emergency services attend the scene after a school building collapsed in Lagos, Nigeria, Wednesday March 13, 2019. Rescue efforts are underway in Nigeria after a three-storey school building collapsed while classes were in session, with some scores of children thought to be inside at the time.
      (AP)

      The school was on the top floor of the building in Ita Faji on Lagos Island, Nigeria’s commercial capital and a city of some 20 million people.

      Nigeria has been suffering from frequent building collapses due to lack of building regulations that would ensure the safety of the buildings.

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      Over 100 people died in 2016 after a church roof collapsed in south of Nigeria.

      The Associated Press contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/world/children-feared-dead-trapped-inside-in-nigeria-after-3-story-school-collapses

      ADDIS ABABA, Ethiopia—The pilot of the Ethiopian Airlines jet that crashed Sunday reported that he was having flight-control problems and wanted to return to the airport, the chief executive of the airline said.

      In recordings of the pilot’s conversations with controllers, he didn’t indicate any external problems with the jet or the flight, like a bird collision, CEO Tewolde Gebremariam told The Wall Street Journal.

      The pilot “reported back to air-traffic controllers that he was having flight-control problems” and wanted to return to Addis Ababa, Mr. Gebremariam said.

      The executive said he had listened to the recording and there were no other problems cited by the pilot.

      Mr. Gebremariam said the black boxes recovered from the jet would be sent to Europe for analysis, although a final determination as to which country hasn’t been made.

      He said the U.K., France and Germany were being considered, as well as the European Union Aviation Safety Agency based in Cologne, Germany, and that a decision would be made Wednesday.

      The Wall Street Journal earlier reported that U.S. and Ethiopian officials were discussing the destination of the black boxes, with American officials quietly pushing for them to be sent to the U.S.

      Black boxes are devices that contain voice recordings and data from the flight that are crucial in any crash investigation. Downloading the data takes technical expertise and equipment that only a few countries possess.

      The Ethiopian Airlines Boeing 737 MAX crashed shortly after takeoff while on a scheduled Addis Ababa-Nairobi flight, killing all 157 people on board.

      Boeing

      has maintained the jet is safe to fly after Sunday’s crash in Ethiopia and the crash of another 737 MAX 8 in Indonesia in October.

      The U.S. Federal Aviation Administration reiterated Tuesday that the aircraft is safe.

      “Our review shows no systemic performance issues and provides no basis to order grounding the aircraft,” the agency said. U.S. carriers, sticking by the FAA guidance, have said they have no plans to ground flights.

      Write to Matina Stevis-Gridneff at matina.stevis@wsj.com

      Source Article from https://www.wsj.com/articles/pilot-of-crashed-ethiopian-airlines-jet-reported-flight-control-problems-11552473593

      LONDON (Reuters) – Britain said it would eliminate import tariffs on a wide range of goods and keep the border between Ireland and Northern Ireland free of customs checks if it leaves the European Union without a transition deal.

      The government announced the temporary measures, which it hopes would soften the immediate impact of a no-deal Brexit, as lawmakers prepared to vote on Wednesday on whether Britain should leave the EU without any transition agreement.

      That prospect is alarming many employers as the March 29 departure date looms large. The government’s no-deal tariff plan, which would last for up to 12 months, would seek to keep prices down for consumers while also minimizing job losses among manufacturers in the world’s fifth-biggest economy.

      Eighty-seven percent of total imports to the United Kingdom by value would be eligible for tariff-free access, up from 80 percent now.

      Some protections for British producers would remain in place, including for carmakers — who are major employers in Britain — and beef, lamb, pork, poultry and dairy farmers.

      Aluminum, steel, machinery, arms and ammunition, footwear, paper and wood products would be exempt from tariffs.

      The plan would expose many manufacturers to cheaper competition from abroad. A group representing farmers said it was concerned that eggs, cereals, fruit and vegetables would also not be protected by tariffs.

      If maintained, the plan could make it harder Britain to extract concessions from other countries in future trade talks.

      LITTLE CONSOLATION

      Cutting tariffs on imported goods would ease the hit to British consumers from an expected jump in inflation in the event of a no-deal Brexit which would probably cause sterling to tumble and make imports more expensive.

      However, the price of cars and food imported from the EU could rise because the new plan would introduce tariffs.

      The head of a British carmakers industry group said the protections offered — which included no tariffs on parts imported from the EU — would not resolve the “devastating effect” of a no-deal Brexit.

      “No policy on tariffs can come close to compensating for the disruption, cost and job losses that would result,” said Mike Hawes, chief executive of the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders.

      “It’s staggering that we are in this position with only days until we are due to leave.”

      “MODEST LIBERALIZATION”

      May says she wants to avoid a no-deal Brexit. Her finance minister Philip Hammond is set to offer lawmakers an incentive to reverse their opposition to her plan by promising later on Wednesday to free up billions of pounds in extra public spending or tax cuts if a no-deal Brexit is avoided.

      Trade minister Liam Fox has invited business leaders to join a call at 1500 GMT to discuss tariffs and Brexit, a senior company source said.

      Brexit minister Stephen Barclay called the measures a “modest liberalization”.

      “It is a temporary measure, this is for a short term while we engage with business and we see what the real term consequences are,” he told BBC radio.

      The new system would mean 82 percent of imports from the EU would be tariff-free, down from all of them now, while 92 percent of imports from the rest of the world would pay no duties at the border, up from 56 percent now.

      IRISH BORDER

      The government said it would not introduce checks or controls on goods moving from the Irish Republic to the British province of Northern Ireland.

      “The measures announced today recognize the unique circumstances of Northern Ireland,” Karen Bradley, Britain’s secretary of state for Northern Ireland said in a statement. “These arrangements can only be temporary and short-term.”

      Britain, Ireland and the EU have said they want to avoid physical checks on the border, which was marked by military checkpoints before a 1998 peace deal ended three decades of violence in the region. But they disagree on the “backstop”, or insurance mechanism, to exclude such border checks.

      Goods crossing the border from Ireland into Northern Ireland would not be covered by the new import tariff regime, posing a challenge for British authorities to stop importers from using Northern Ireland as a backdoor route to avoid British tariffs.

      Additional reporting by Elisabeth O’Leary and Michael Holden; Editing by Janet Lawrence and Keith Weir

      Source Article from https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-eu-borders/uk-says-would-cut-tariffs-no-checks-on-irish-border-in-no-deal-brexit-idUSKBN1QU0PB

      William Rick Singer, founder of for-profit college prep business Edge College & Career Network also known as “The Key,” is allegedly the mastermind behind one of the largest college admissions scams to ever hit the U.S. and went to great lengths — which included pricey fees — to ensure his clients’ demands were met.

      Singer, 58, has been called the “ringleader” behind the scheme, purportedly collecting roughly $25 million from dozens of individuals including actresses Felicity Huffman and Lori Loughlin over the course of nearly a decade to bribe school coaches and administrators into pretending their children were athletic recruits to ensure their admission into top tier colleges, prosecutors say.

      The Newport Beach, Calif., businessman agreed to plead guilty in Boston federal court Tuesday to charges including racketeering conspiracy and obstruction of justice. As a part of his guilty plea, Singer said he would pay at least $3.4 million to the feds, The Boston Globe reports.

      3 OF THE MOST BIZARRE DETAILS OF THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS CHEATING SCANDAL

      On his website for The Key, Singer describes himself as a dedicated father and coach who understands the pressure put on families surrounding college acceptances. The Key calls itself “the nation’s largest private life coaching and college counseling company.”

      William Rick Singer, founder of the Edge College and Career Network, pleaded guilty to charges in a nationwide college admissions bribery scandal. 
      (AP Photo/Steven Senne)

      “As founder of The Key, I have spent the past 25 years helping students discover their life passion, and guiding them along with their families through the complex college admissions maze. Using The Key method, our coaches help unlock the full potential of your son or daughter, and set them on a course to excel in life,” Singer stated online, providing biographies for seven other “coaches.”

      Andrew Lelling, U.S. attorney for the District of Massachusetts, reportedly claimed Singer’s clients paid him “anywhere between $200,000 and $6.5 million” for his unique services.

      FELICITY HUFFMAN, LORI LOUGHLIN AMONG 50 SNARED IN ELITE COLLEGE CHEATING SCAM, AUTHORITIES SAY

      Parents of prospective students conspired with a college entrance consultant to beat the system and ensure their students were admitted or had a better chance to be admitted to certain colleges or universities, including Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

      “According to the charging documents, Singer facilitated cheating on the SAT and ACT exams for his clients by instructing them to seek extended time for their children on college entrance exams, which included having the children purport to have learning disabilities in order to obtain the required medical documentation,” the U.S. Justice Department explained, in part, in an online statement.

      “Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do.”

      — Andrew Lelling

      However, that was just one of many ways Singer ensured the students got accepted to elite schools such as Yale, Stanford, Texas, UCLA, USC, Wake Forest and others.

      “Singer would accommodate what parents wanted to do,” Lelling said, adding that it “appears that the schools are not involved.”

      Prosecutors say the consultant represented to parents that the scheme had worked successfully more than 800 times.

      Singer also served as CEO of the Key Worldwide Foundation (KWF), a non-profit he claimed was a charity. Bribery payments were disguised as donations to KWF in sums up to $75,000 per SAT or ACT exam, the Justice Department said, noting that many students didn’t realize their parents had staged anything.

      “This is a case where [the parents] flaunted their wealth, sparing no expense to cheat the system so they could set their children up for success with the best money can buy,” Joseph Bonavolonta from the FBI Boston Field Office said in a Tuesday news conference.

      In total, 50 people — including more than 30 parents and nine coaches — were charged Tuesday in the scheme.

      Fox News’ Katherine Lam,Travis Fedschun and The Assocaited Press contributed to this report.

      Source Article from https://www.foxnews.com/us/who-is-william-rick-singer-college-admissions-cheating-scandals-alleged-ringleader

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      In February, the United Nations released a report criticizing Italy for “the numerous cases of children who have been sexually abused by religious personnel of the Catholic church,” and “the low number of investigations and criminal prosecutions.”

      Mexico has the second largest Catholic population in the world after Brazil, but only four priests in the country have been convicted of sexual abuse in the past decade. In part, as in the United States, this is because of restrictive statutes of limitations.

      A deep Catholic heritage and weak reporting laws — which only require clergy to notify civil authorities of abuse if it occurs during religious worship or on church property — also play a part, experts say.

      “In Mexico we don’t have a lot of cases denounced, but we have an estimation of about 500 cases that could be prosecuted,” said Adalberto Méndez, a human rights attorney in Mexico and a member of Ending Clergy Abuse, a victims’ advocacy group.

      “This is a really Catholic country,” Mr. Méndez added. “The authorities don’t want problems with the church.”

      Searing government reports exposing the scope and severity of the abuse problem in Ireland — which relied on the Catholic church to run schools, orphanages and other social service organizations for decades have undermined the country’s trust in the church. Ninety-three priests and brothers have been convicted there, according to BishopAccountability.org.

      “The government would have bowed down to the church” said Marie Collins, a survivor of clergy sexual abuse in Ireland, and a former member of the Pontifical Commission for the Protection of Minors, a group created to advise Pope Francis.

      Source Article from https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/12/world/australia/cardinal-pell-child-sexual-abuse.html

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      (CNN)More than 3,000 ISIS fighters have surrendered amid a pitched battle by US-backed forces to retake the last ISIS stronghold in Syria.

      Source Article from https://www.cnn.com/2019/03/13/middleeast/syria-isis-stronghold-surrender-intl/index.html

      Adam Schiff, the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee, hinted Tuesday that it could be a while before the panel releases the transcripts of Michael Cohen’s private testimony.

      “We would certainly like to release those transcripts as soon as we are able to, but at the same time, there may be evidence in those transcripts that would prejudice the investigation if they were disclosed before we did other investigative work,” the California Democrat told reporters at the Christian Science Monitor breakfast, according to Politico.

      Cohen testified behind closed doors to the committee Feb. 28 and March 6. After the first interview, Schiff said President Trump’s former fixer “shed light on a lot of issues that are very core to our investigation.”

      Schiff said Tuesday the committee’s investigators need to follow up on the leads from Cohen’s testimony, including interviews with other witnesses, before transcripts are released.

      Cohen reportedly gave the committee documents that showed his false testimony to the panel in 2017 about Trump Tower negotiations was edited. Cohen has pleaded guilty to lying about the time frame of the talks. In a public hearing with the House Oversight Committee in late February, Cohen told lawmakers one of Trump’s attorneys edited the false statement. The lawyer, Jay Sekulow, has denied the claim.

      Cohen is set to report to prison May 6 to serve three years for lying to Congress, tax fraud, and campaign finance violations related to payments to women alleging they had affairs with Trump.

      Source Article from https://www.washingtonexaminer.com/news/adam-schiff-wont-release-michael-cohen-transcripts-anytime-soon

      Boeing has said the planes are safe to fly, but has pledged to upgrade their software and improve pilot training.

      Sunwing, a Canadian carrier, said on Tuesday that it was temporarily grounding its four Boeing 737 Max 8 aircraft even though Canada’s government, like that of the United States, has not ordered the move.

      In a statement, the company said the step was “unrelated to safety.” Instead, the airline said, the move was prompted by growing airspace bans by countries and “evolving commercial reasons.”

      The European Union on Tuesday joined the governments of the United Arab Emirates, Malaysia, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Singapore and other countries in suspending all Max 8 flights into or out of their airports. At least 34 airlines have now grounded the model, which means roughly two-thirds of the Max 8 planes in operation are now idled.

      The Federal Aviation Administration in the United States has resisted pressure to ground the Max 8.

      [We answered readers’ questions about the Boeing 737 Max 8.]

      While regulators in much of the world have ordered temporary groundings of the Boeing 737 Max 8 as a precautionary measure, the United Nations civil aviation agency said it would await definitive findings about what went wrong on Ethiopian Airlines Flight 302.

      “Once the final report into this accident is available we will have verified and official causes and recommendations to consider,” the agency, the International Civil Aviation Organization, said in a statement on Tuesday.

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