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One of the most talented and decorated female gymnasts in the history of the sport has come forward claiming she was sexually abused by the US team doctor.
In an interview set to air on 60 Minutes this Sunday, Aly Raisman says that she too was a victim of Larry Nassar.
Raisman, who will detail her experience in her upcoming memoir 'Fierce,' lashed out at those who protected Nassar and allowed these alleged offenses to go on for so long.
Captain Sulu accused of abusing model in 1981
A former model and actor is accusing Star Trek icon George Takei of sexual assault in 1981. The accuser, Scott R. Brunton, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident, claims that Takei took advantage of him when he was most vulnerable.
Benny Medina accused of sexual assault
Benny Medina, best known for managing Jennifer Lopez and Will Smith, has been accused of attempting to rape “Sordid Lives” actor Jason Dottley in 2008.
Writer denies Anthony Edward's accusation of molestation
A publicist for writer-producer Gary Goddard, who Anthony Edwards has accused of molesting him when the actor was 14, issued a statement tonight in his client’s name: “As to the allegations that Mr. Edwards made in his post today, I can unequivocally deny them on Gary’s behalf,” Sam Singer wrote. Read the full statement below.
[KRQE] A Federal Appeals Court Judge was left angry and confused when he tried to do his civic duty earlier this week in Albuquerque. He was turned away because, apparently, someone had already used his name to vote.
It all started on Wednesday.
“There was no one there to vote so I thought this was going to go really quickly,” said Judge Harris Hartz.
Judge Hartz showed up to the city’s Record Center on 6th and Menaul with his driver’s license, to vote early in the mayor’s race.
What he thought would be a quick trip turned into an ordeal.
“They’re getting some report of activity in my account. I don’t remember the language they used. I said ‘What does that mean?’ They said somebody voted,” said Judge Hartz. “They reported to me that I had voted at City Hall at 4:15, about an hour and fifteen minutes earlier,” he continued.
Judge Hartz, of course, knew was impossible.
“I knew I hadn’t voted so I thought there was this foul-up, and that can happen,” said Judge Hartz.
On top of that, Judge Hartz says he has people to confirm he was not at City Hall during that time.
“I was in my office. We have a small office. I have four law clerks. I have a judicial assistant and I was working with them,” said Judge Hartz.
The City Clerk’s Office tells News 13 they met with Judge Hartz Friday morning to review the signed ballot, and could not make out the name.
“It was not my signature. It wasn’t close to my signature and they gave me provisional ballot,” said Judge Hartz.
The Clerk’s Office also says this has never happened to them before. Having gone through the experience, Judge Hartz hopes they have learned their lesson.
“It shouldn’t happen and if it does happen, there ought to be a way to get a provisional ballot so you don’t have to spend hours, as I have, trying to get it straightened out,” said Judge Hartz.
It is not clear if someone used an ID and impersonated the judge, if someone accidentally printed the wrong ballot, or if they checked off the wrong name.
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Being a good federal judge, this experience will convince him each voter should be allows to vote 2-3 times during voting hours, 2-3 times early voting and 4-5 times extended voting hours.
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It is not clear if someone used an ID and impersonated the judge, if someone accidentally printed the wrong ballot, or if they checked off the wrong name.
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[FOX] UK’s Cambridge University physical sciences professor came under fire this week from mental health campaigners and students after he suggested undergraduates will have to work hard and abstain from drinking to pass the course.
Eugene Terentjev draw the fury of students and mental health activists after sending out an email last week to first-year natural sciences undergraduates at Cambridge, telling them the course will be difficult and thus they should refrain from drinking and other social activities if they wish to succeed, according to an email leaked to student-run publication Varsity.
“Physical sciences is a VERY hard subject, which will require ALL of your attention and your FULL brain capacity (and for a large fraction of you, even that will not be quite enough),” Terentjev wrote to the students.
“You can ONLY do well (ie achieve your potential, which rightly or wrongly several people here assumed you have) if you are completely focused, and learn to enjoy the course. People who just TAKE the course, but enjoy their social life, can easily survive in many subjects — but not in this one.”
[DAWN] Russia and the United States gave mixed messages on Friday about whether their leaders will meet on the sidelines of a regional summit in Vietnam, with the White House ruling out an encounter but the Kremlin saying it could still happen.
Relations between Moscow and Washington have plummeted as a US probe has accused Trump's former campaign aides of secretly meeting Kremlin-connected officials ‐ a charge Moscow denies.
Both leaders are attending the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) forum in the city of Danang and there have been conflicting indications in recent days on whether a face-to-face was on the cards.
The issue appeared to be finally settled shortly before Trump's touchdown in Danang on Friday afternoon when press secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders briefed news hounds on board Air Force One that there was not enough time for the pair to meet.
"There was never a meeting confirmed, and there will not be one that takes place due to scheduling conflicts on both sides," she said.
But Putin's team said a tete-a-tete could still take place.
"There is contradictory information coming from our American colleagues," Putin's front man Dmitry Peskov told news hounds after Sanders' comments. "In any case, a meeting will take place on the sidelines."
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[Mail] He's an officer and a gentleman! Meet U.S. Army chopper pilot Bobby Zizelman who took pity on Trump spokeswoman Sarah Sanders and gave her his coat on a chilly Korea day.
When President Donald Trump tried to visit Korea's demilitarized zone on Wednesday during his 12-day trip through Asia, a U.S. Army Ranger made headlines by lending White House press secretary Sarah Sanders his camouflage jacket on a chilly morning.
Now the Army has exclusively shared photos of the new face of American chivalry with DailyMail.com.
Meet Chief Warrant Officer 2 Bobby Zizelman, a helicopter test pilot who stepped in to warm Sanders up on the tarmac at U.S. Army Garrison Yongsan.
[DAWN] Ever so cautiously, North Korea is going online.
Doctors can consult via live, online video conferencing, and lectures at prestigious Kim Il Sung University are streamed to faraway factories and agricultural communes.
People use online dictionaries and text each other on their smart phones. In the wallets of the privileged are "Jonsong" or "Narae" cards for e-shopping and online banking. Cash registers at major department stores are plugged into the web.
It's just not the World Wide Web ─ this is all done on a tightly sealed intranet of the sort a medium-sized company might use for its employees.
The free flow of information is anathema to authoritarian regimes, and with the possible exception of the African dictatorship of Eritrea ...is run by the People's Front for Democracy and Justice (PFDJ), with about the amounts of democracy and justice you'd expect from a party with that name. National elections have been periodically scheduled and cancelled; none have ever been held in the country. The president, Isaias Afewerki, has been in office since independence in 1993 and will probably die there of old age... , North Korea is still the least Internet-friendly country on Earth.
Access to the global Internet for most is unimaginable.
Hardly anyone has a personal computer or an email address that isn't shared, and the price for trying to get around the government's rules can be severe.
But for Kim Pudge Jong-un ...the overweight, pouty-looking hereditary potentate of North Korea. Pudge appears to believe in his own divinity, but has yet to produce any loaves and fishes, so his subjects remain malnourished... , the country's first leader to come of age with the Internet, the idea of a more wired North Korea is also attractive.
It comes with the potential for great benefits to the nation from information technology and for new forms of social and political control that promise to be more effective than anything his father and grandfather could have dreamed of.
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[DAWN] The United Nations ...boodling on the grand scale... is set to host the first-ever talks on the use of autonomous weapons, but those hoping for a ban on the machines dubbed killer robots will be disappointed, the ambassador leading the discussions said on Friday.
More than 100 artificial intelligence entrepreneurs led by Tesla's Elon Musk in August urged the UN to enforce a global ban on fully-automated weapons, echoing calls from activists who have warned the machines will put civilians at enormous risk.
A UN disarmament grouping known as the Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons (CCW) will on Monday hold five days of talks on the issue in Geneva.
But anything resembling a ban, or even a treaty, remains far off, said the Indian ambassador on disarmament, Amandeep Gill, who is chairing the meeting. "It would be very easy to just legislate a ban but I think... rushing ahead in a very complex subject is not wise," he told news hounds.
"We are just at the starting line," he added.
He said the discussion, which will also include civil society and technology companies, will be partly focused on understanding the types of weapons in the pipeline.
Proponents of a ban, including the Campaign to Stop Killer Robots pressure group, insist that human beings must ultimately be responsible for the final decision to kill or destroy. They argue that any weapons system that delegates the decision on an individual strike to an algorithm is by definition illegal because computers cannot be held accountable under the international humanitarian law.
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[IsraelTimes] Number of new immigrants colonists in 2017 up 2 percent from year before despite decrease in new arrivals from US, La Belle France.
Bucking a slump in Western immigration to Israel under its law of return for Jews, the number of new arrivals from Russia has increased in 2017 and more than doubled from The Sick Man of Europe Turkey ...the only place on the face of the earth that misses the Ottoman Empire.....
In total, the 23,415 immigrants colonists who have come to Israel from January 1 to September 30 constituted a 2 percent increase over the corresponding period last year, an interim report by the Jewish Agency for Israel showed.
The 8% rise in immigration from the former Soviet Union, representing 13,192 individuals, helped make up for an 11% decrease from the United States, which brought 2,282 immigrants colonists to Israel. Among the FSU figures, 5,661 immigrants colonists came from Russia, where sanctions and a financial crisis exacerbated by low oil prices have halved the value of the ruble against the dollar since 2014.
Ukraine, where the economy crashed following a revolution and territorial disputes with Russia after 2013, provided Israel with nearly 6,000 newcomers.
Immigration from La Belle France, which in 2015 was for the second year straight Israel’s largest source of immigrants colonists with 7,328 newcomers, continued to plummet, registering a 26% drop this year to a total of 3,138 newcomers. La Belle France, which is seeing an economic improvement following several stagnant years, also has recorded a decrease in anti-Semitic incidents since 2015 that the government attributes to its security measures. Immigration from Britannia also decreased by 16% to 459 newcomers.
In recent years, immigration tallies for the first three quarters of the year rarely have changed dramatically as the large waves of immigration, or aliyah, by families usually occur in the summer ahead of the new school year. In 2016, the tally for the first three quarters of the year accounted for 75% of the total annual number.
Another noticeable increase came from Turkey, where many Jews are exploring immigration options amid political instability and allegations of state-tolerated anti-Semitism under President Sultan Recep Tayyip Erdogan the First ... Turkey's version of Mohammed Morsi but they voted him back in so they deserve him... of the Islamist Justice and Development Party. This year, more than 350 Ottoman Turkish Jews came, compared to 164 in the corresponding period last year.
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[NYup.com] A church in Central New York has responded to the Texas church shooting by inviting its members to bring their guns to services.
"We are not a gun-free zone," a sign outside the Lighthouse Mexico Church of God in Oswego County says. The church's official website also includes a scrolling message that says "We are NOT a 'Gun free zone'- we protect our people!"
Pastor Ronald Russell tells Spectrum News that his church, located on S. Jefferson Street in Mexico, N.Y., has allowed congregants to openly carry guns since a shooting at a South Carolina church in 2015. Dylann Roof, a self-identified white supremacist, was convicted last year of killing nine black church members at the Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Charleston, S.C.
Russell says he put the open-carry sign up this week after a Texas gunman killed 26 people and injured 20 at the First Baptist Church of Sutherland Springs on Sunday. Police say Devin Patrick Kelley's attack was likely motivated by a "domestic situation" with his second wife's in-laws, but the deadly incident has raised questions of gun control across America.
"Times are changing," Russell told Spectrum News on Thursday. "It's not the congregation, per se, but the leadership. People say 'well, pastor, you're talking about killing some,' and I say 'well, if I don't protect my people, I'm being complicit.' A shooting here, that's not going to happen."
A real shocking revelation, this one...
[HolleywoodRporter] The 'Star Trek' icon denies a claim by Scott R. Brunton, who says he was groped at the actor's Los Angeles condo.
A former model and actor is accusing Star Trek icon George Takei of sexual assault in 1981. The accuser, Scott R. Brunton, who was 23 at the time of the alleged incident, claims that Takei took advantage of him when he was most vulnerable.
"This happened a long time ago, but I have never forgotten it," Brunton tells The Hollywood Reporter in an interview. "It is one of those stories you tell with a group of people when people are recounting bizarre instances in their lives, this always comes up. I have been telling it for years, but I am suddenly very nervous telling it."
A multi-volume chronology and reference guide set detailing three years of the Mexican Drug War between 2010 and 2012.
Rantburg.com and borderlandbeat.com correspondent and author Chris Covert presents his first non-fiction work detailing
the drug and gang related violence in Mexico.
Chris gives us Mexican press dispatches of drug and gang war violence
over three years, presented in a multi volume set intended to chronicle the death, violence and mayhem which has
dominated Mexico for six years.
Rantburg was assembled from recycled algorithms in the United States of America. No
trees were destroyed in the production of this weblog. We did hurt some, though. Sorry.
[FOX] UK’s Cambridge University physical sciences professor came under fire this week from mental health campaigners and students after he suggested undergraduates will have to work hard and abstain from drinking to pass the course.
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