Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 17:46 (about 11 minutes ago)
Text messages allegedly sent by Amazon founder and Washington Post owner Jeff Bezos may have been sold to tabloid newspaper the National Enquirer by his girlfriend?s brother, according to sources quoted by The Wall Street Journal.According to the paper, federal prosecutors are examining messages, including at least one photograph, first sent by the world?s richest man to news reporter Lauren Sanchez, with whom he was having an extramarital affair. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 17:46 (about 11 minutes ago)
Democratic presidential hopeful Bernie Sanders's decision to highlight an unofficial endorsement from Joe Rogan drew criticism on Friday due to the comedian's brand of humor that some see as dismissive of issues like equal pay and transgender rights. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 17:46 (about 11 minutes ago)
Each person infected with coronavirus is passing the disease on to between two and three other people on average at current transmission rates, according to two separate scientific analyses of the epidemic. "It is unclear at the current time whether this outbreak can be contained within China," said Neil Ferguson, an infectious disease specialist at Imperial College London who co-led one of the studies. #
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Was it a good idea? #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 17:46 (about 11 minutes ago)
Young demonstrators aim to make the climate crisis a central issue of the presidential campaignOrganizers in the youth climate movement plan an avalanche of activities beginning next week, determined to make the future of the climate the major issue of the 2020 election.Capitalizing on turnout in the September climate strikes, when 6 million people worldwide turned out to demand urgent action to address the escalating ecological emergency, young US organizers are making the leap from mobilization to demands. They?re planning widespread voter activation in the 2020 US presidential election as well as direct action targeting the fossil fuel industry and the banks and politicians that enable it.?The headline message of the strikes in 2020 is: the kids are taking to the streets to strike for climate and they?re asking you to vote,? said Katie Eder, the executive director of Future Coalition, a communications and training hub for youth climate groups.There are more than 300 organizations involved in the efforts, Eder said, including some of the largest youth and adult coalitions in climate movement: Fridays for Future, the Sunrise Movement, 350.org, Zero Hour, Extinction Rebellion.?We?re starting to have the conversation within the strikes about how we?re balancing both the political targets and the financial targets,? Eder said, calling power and money ?really key to the root causes of why we?re not addressing climate change?.Activists have planned widespread voter mobilization campaigns; three days of national strikes, marches, and direct action against politicians and banks beginning on Earth Day (22 April); regular strikes on Fridays and additional strikes targeting primary elections in every state; plus an international day of action, college divestment campaigns, and a huge push by the Sunrise Movement to turn out the vote for Bernie Sanders and a Green New Deal.Stories of climate awakening are a universal truth for young Americans living in the age of worsening climate conditions. Isabella Fallahi, who has asthma, for example, has lived within 14 miles of a coal-burning generating facility all of her life.?A lot of people don?t think of Indiana, or the midwest, for that matter, as frontline communities,? she said. ?We face the silent killers. The terrible air quality because of mining projects, the terrible water quality because of mining projects, the health effects associated with both of those, droughts that cripple the agricultural economies that we?re based off of.?But Fallahi, like many other young organizers, is also galvanized by the tech proficiency of her generation, born into the era of hashtags and the ubiquitous touchscreen. She was a speaker at the UN climate change conference in Madrid (COP 25) in December 2019, when she and other youth were nearly ejected for protesting against the fossil fuel executives on panels and in negotiations.Approximately 200 young people in 40 countries, many of whom were at the conference, organized a response called Polluters Out. In 20 days, they had a website, a multilingual launch video, a press release in seven languages, and a list of demands. In actions set for March, they will call for the exclusion of fossil fuel interests at COP26 and transparency in the UN framework on climate change, as well as inclusion of indigenous and human rights in the Paris agreement. Regional efforts in the US will also call for a Green New Deal, a halt to new fossil fuel infrastructure, divestments from fossil fuels by universities and campaign funds, and the targeting of specific banks for fossil fuel investments.The groups stay in touch through conference calls, Slack, Zoom, and Google Drive. Activists in Cuba ? who can?t download the apps because of the US trade embargo ? tune in through WhatsApp. There?s a Slack channel for supporting scientists, too. And meetings wait for organizers in the Amazon who need to travel to towns for internet access.For all of them, there is community. People to cry with over the photo of the bay in Australia, so covered in smoke that it is hardly visible.?Overall, I think the way to look at this perspective on the youth movement is: it is cohesive in that they do communicate, but the orgs are not all the same,? said Natalie Mebane, associate director of US Policy for 350.org and an adult mentor for Zero Hour, both organizations intensely focused on voter turnout for climate for 2020. ?We want to make sure that climate becomes the number one issue on voters? minds.?The Sunrise Movement, like 350.org and Zero Hour, has taken that to a grassroots level. That is how Naina Agrawal-Hardin ended up in the guidance office at Washtenaw high school outside Ann Arbor, Michigan, for an interview. She?s a leader for the Ann Arbor hub of the Sunrise Movement. And she?s 16, a junior. Her school, she said, was supportive.?Whenever I have to take conference calls or interviews during school hours, they usually will write me a pass to get out of class,? she said.Agrawal-Hardin is planning a watch party at her home ? a sneak peek at the forthcoming documentary Generation Green New Deal and a video about the Sunrise Movement?s 2020 campaign, as part of its annual kickoff. Sunrise provides the documentaries, discussion questions, and near-daily training on organizing and recruitment techniques. When Agrawal-Hardin hosts her event on 29 January, she?ll be one of more than 2,000 hosts nationwide.Through 2020, the Sunrise Movement will similarly activate its 300 chapters in support of Bernie Sanders, leveraging 10,000 volunteers in most of the 50 states for door knocks, voting pledges and climate education. Sunrise endorsed Sanders as the best-positioned candidate to lead a Green New Deal and address income inequality.?By primary/caucus day in Iowa and New Hampshire, we are going to have over 20,000 young people who have signed pledges to vote for Green New Deal champions? in the two states, said Sofie Karasek, a Sunrise Movement spokesperson. ?What we?re really expecting to see in 2020 is Young Green New Deal voters really become the margin of victory for whoever becomes the Democratic nominee.? #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 17:46 (about 11 minutes ago)
President Donald Trump?s personal attorney Rudy Giuliani showed up on the president?s favorite morning program on Friday?and apparently didn?t want to leave.A day after Giuliani claimed on Twitter that he was about to go public with evidence that will reveal the ?Biden Family Enterprise made millions by selling public office? when Joe Biden was vice president, the former New York City mayor sat down on Fox & Friends? curvy couch for what can generously be described as an unhinged, rambling, off-the-rails performance.Giuliani, whose involvement in the Ukraine scandal is at the heart of the president?s impeachment, continually left the hosts of the Fox News slack-jawed as he prattled on and bulldozed right through their efforts to keep him from incriminating and implicating himself.For example, as he claimed he would provide ?compelling? evidence later in the day on a podcast to support his wild assertions about the Bidens that seemingly ensnare the entire Obama administration AND Hillary Clinton, co-host Brian Kilmeade wanted to make sure ?the State Department and the White House know everything you were doing."Elsewhere in the interview, which was aired in front of a live studio audience, the one-time America?s Mayor dismissed text messages and call logs with shady businessman Lev Parnas and other figures associated with Ukraine, oddly boasting, ?How about all those phone records that show that I am a very hard-working lawyer??Finally, after Giuliani once again repeated his Biden-related conspiracies, co-host Steve Doocy stepped in to wrap up the segment.?I know you could go clear through noon when your podcast starts. Give it up for Rudy Giuliani,? Doocy exclaimed to cheers from the audience. ?We?re going to be watching.?The Trump lawyer, however, wasn?t budging, instead saying that he?d only shown the ?tip of the iceberg? while rambling on some more.?Rudy, we?re done,? Doocy begged, prompting Kilmeade to add, ?We have got to go. The president wants you to continue this investigation???Would you like me to give up?? Giuliani replied, before adding, ?Would you like me to say OK, Biden can keep his 8 million that he got in bribes. He can keep all the bribes that they got.?Again, Doocy tried to give the signal that the interview was over, telling Giuliani that ?we?re waiting for noon? for the podcast. Giuliani, meanwhile, ignored Doocy while asking Kilmeade if he should ?give it up? while grabbing his head and awkwardly leaning off the couch.The ex-mayor would continue to steamroll over Doocy?s efforts to go to commercial break so he could get yet another last word in, finally giving it up after Doocy?s fifth attempt to end the interview.Stephen Colbert Grills CNN?s Chris Cuomo on His ?Friend? Kellyanne ConwayRead more at The Daily Beast.Got a tip? Send it to The Daily Beast hereGet our top stories in your inbox every day. Sign up now!Daily Beast Membership: Beast Inside goes deeper on the stories that matter to you. Learn more. #
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The owners of a San Francisco Bay Area solar energy company pleaded guilty Friday to charges that they plotted a massive Ponzi scheme that defrauded investors of $1 billion. As part of their plea deal, prosecutors said the husband and wife team from Martinez agreed to forfeit over $120 million in assets, including a fleet of collector cars and v acation homes in the Caribbean, Lake Tahoe and Las Vegas purchased entirely with cash. Jeff Carpoff, 49, pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit wire fraud and money laundering, which carry a maximum penalty of up to 30 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney's office in Sacramento said. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 16:16 (about 1 hour ago)
President Trump's defense team will have 24 hours over three days to make its case to the Senate on why the president should not be convicted. #
Source: Yahoo News - Latest News & Headlines — 25th January 2020 at 16:16 (about 1 hour ago)
Republicans are more split than one might imagine: While 42% trust the Senate to do a fair trial, 33% do not. #
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Muslim religious leaders joined members of a U.S. Jewish group at Auschwitz on Thursday for what organizers described as ?the most senior Islamic leadership delegation" to visit the site of a Nazi German death camp. #