A damaging recording shared with MSNBC by former White House aide Omarosa Manigault Newman of a conversation in which PresidentDonald Trump’s daughter-in-law Lara offers her $15,000 a month to work on the president’s campaign after she was fired from the administration was released Thursday further added to the imbroglio, The Hill reported ... "They wrote about you ... Everything, everybody positive, right?" she adds....
Officials have been warning about the dangerous condition of infrastructure across Europe before the fatal collapse of the motorway in Genoa, with some experts warning similar tragedies can happen all over the EU, according to The Guardian...Italy has as many as 300 bridges which are at risk of failure, including a bridge designed by the same engineer who was involved in the Genovese bridge, RicardoMorandi, in Agrigento, Sicily ... ... ... ....
Security researchers released a new report detailing how hackers from a Chinese university targeted American companies and the Alaskan state government for espionage opportunities after a United States trade delegation visited China earlier this year, according to Reuters ...Bill Walker, spent a week in China in May ... as the two are enmeshed in a tit-for-tat trade war ... I’ve never heard of this, so I have no way to give a response." ... ....
Jurors in the bank and tax fraud trial of Paul Manafort sent the judge four questions on Thursday as they started deliberations on the case, according to The Washington Post. The group will continue deliberations on Friday for the 18 counts of bank fraud and lying Manafort faces, and if convicted, could spend the rest of his life in prison. U.S.District JudgeT.S ... ... “Mr ... ... ... “Guess who the coach of that team is?” Andres said....
Residents across the East Coast could smell the lingering smoke in Baltimore and Washington D.C. on Thursday morning after high-altitude winds carried the scent from the dozens of fires burning across the Western United States, according to The Washington Post. Even though the flames were more than 3,000 miles away, social media posts from Virginia to Maryland from local residents said they could detect the particular scent ... ... ... Ryan M ... ....
The Associated Press reports a Georgia woman is to be sentenced to the “longest sentence” ever next week for a federal crime involving leaks to the news media after she mailed a secret U.S. report to a news organization, prosecutors said in a court filing Thursday.Former National Security Agency contractor RealityWinner, 26, will be sentenced next Thursday by U.S DistrictCourtJudge J. Randal Hall in Augusta, the report said....
Music legend Aretha Franklin died early Thursday at the age of 76 after a long illness, The Associated Press reported. Reports began circulating Sunday evening the R&B; singer was in the hospital and “gravely ill,” the report said.Franklin’s final public performance took place in November 2017, the AP reported. Born in Memphis, the report said, Franklin grew up in Detroit as a singer in her father’s church....
PresidentDonald Trump's demands for a spectacular Veterans Day military parade would cost nearly $92 million, according to preliminary estimates from United States officials released on Thursday, but that price tag is three times the price first quoted by the White House when they announced the plan, according to The Associated Press. ... Col ... We will announce more information when it is available." ... U.S....
The Turkish lira continued to retreat from its historic low against the dollar on Thursday after Qatar announced a $15 billion funding package for Turkey's wobbling economy ...BST (3.12 a.m. ET) on Thursday morning ... ....
Poland's president said he would veto a law which was approved by Parliament in July and was proposed by the ruling Law and Justice (PiS) party which would have benefitted larger political parties on Thursday, according to Politico ...Duda said he was sending the law "back to parliament for reconsideration" before he was headed to Australia for an official trip ... The threshold established by European law is 5 percent....
The chief executives of America’s top 350 companies earned 312 times more than their workers on average last year, according to a new report published Thursday by the Economic Policy Institute. The rise came after the bosses of America’s largest companies got an average pay rise of 17.6% in 2017, taking home an average of $18.9m in compensation while their employees’ wages stalled, rising just 0.3% over the year ... Read more ... Read more....
A group of neighbors stumbled on a lost fragment of history in an overgrown portion of central Berlin, uncovering a 20-meter length of concrete wall splattered with vines and faded graffiti in early June, according to The New York Times ... “Our experts were able to confirm its authenticity based on the materials used to build it and its measurements,” Beutin said ... We need places and objects where we can keep the memories alive.”....