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Kiple finished with seven strikeouts and allowed five hits over his five innings.\nThe Knights took a 2-1 lead in the third and never trailed again, although Westminster (7-4, 6-4) didn’t wilt. The Owls scored twice in the fifth, cutting the deficit to 4-3. Century responded, however, with two runs in the sixth and secured the win.\n“With the rain and all this, tough day,” Kiple said. “But you’ve got to hang in there, scrap, and just figure out a way to win.”\nThe Knights can win by 10-run rule with their potent lineup — they’ve done so four times this spring — but they can also take advantage of the closer contests. Junior third baseman Jared Lamb, who had two hits and two RBIs on Tuesday, said depth is a big reason why Century is such a threat this spring.\nKiple agreed, and said defense has been the Knights’ strong point so far. They lost an all-county player when senior Rob Martin suffered a season-ending shoulder injury April 11 against Liberty, but haven’t faltered.\n“Our hitting has always been good, but if we don’t have defense and … honestly, our pitching too,” Kiple said. “We’ve all stayed healthy other than Rob. That’s a key loss. But other than that, pitching and defense is what’s key.”\nKen Koons / Carroll County Times Century's Brandon Will scores against Westminster. Century's Brandon Will scores against Westminster. (Ken Koons / Carroll County Times)\nThe Knights committed three errors, but only one led to a Westminster run.\nLamb drove in a run in the third with a single, and Nathanael Hibbs added one with a sac fly. Lamb’s second RBI came in the fifth inning, and Michael Marrale (two hits, two runs) provided Century’s other run when he raced home on a wild pitch.\nDylan Breitenbach and Jake Diehl provided run-scoring singles in the sixth and seventh innings.\nWestminster stayed close, however, and Billy Scanlon drove in a run with a single in the fifth to make it 4-2. Marcos Mendez’s RBI groundout cut Century’s lead to one, and the Owls nearly tied the score on an infield hit by Hunter Barber.\nHibbs took a tough hop at short and fired to first — the ball arrived just as Barber did, and he was called out on a close play.\nHaden Hoff doubled in a run in the sixth, the game’s only extra-base hit, but the Owls couldn’t get any closer. Kiple struck out pinch-hitter Cory Moran for the final out in the seventh.\nCentury started its four-game week off with a win, and the Knights now prepare for Winters Mill on Wednesday, Manchester Valley on Thursday, both road games, and Liberty on Friday at home. The rest of Carroll’s teams have three or more county losses, so the Knights can clinch their second consecutive Carroll County Athletic League title with a win Wednesday (WM is 5-3 in county play).\n“We always have each other’s backs, we’re always picking each other up,” Lamb said. “We’re there for each other. … I think we’re feeling pretty good right now.”\nCentury 002 022 1 — 7 10 3\nWestminster 010 021 0 — 4 6 3\nC-Jeremy Lapp, Ethan Kiple (3) and Zach Raico; W-Connor Thompson, Hunter Barber (5), Adam McCartan (7) and Haden Hoff. 2B: W-Hoff. WP: Kiple. LP: Thompson.\nCAPTION Weiss, Evans and MacKenzie chat with us post-game. Weiss, Evans and MacKenzie chat with us post-game. CAPTION Weiss, Evans and MacKenzie chat with us post-game. Weiss, Evans and MacKenzie chat with us post-game. CAPTION Grace Bruce and Christina Haspert chat with us post-game. Grace Bruce and Christina Haspert chat with us post-game. CAPTION Anna Ruby and Hannah Dintino led the Owls to an 18-7 county win over the Lions on April 23, 2018. Anna Ruby and Hannah Dintino led the Owls to an 18-7 county win over the Lions on April 23, 2018. CAPTION Westminster scored seven runs in the third inning en route to a 9-5 victory April 13, 2018. Westminster scored seven runs in the third inning en route to a 9-5 victory April 13, 2018. CAPTION The Cavaliers improved to 1-1 in Carroll County Athletic League play. 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Question: RPT-UPDATE 5-Sunoco to sell 1,110 U.S. stores to 7-Eleven operator for $3.3 bln

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* Seven & i unit to buy 1,108 stores in Texas, other states
* Sunoco to supply about 2.2 bln gallons of fuel to 7-Eleven unit
* Proceeds will be used primarily to repay debt - Sunoco
* Sunoco shares jump as much as 24 pct
By Taiga Uranaka and Vishaka George
April 6 Sunoco LP said on Thursday it would sell 1,110 convenience stores to Japan's Seven & i Holdings Co for $3.3 billion as the Texas-based company shifts its focus to its fuel supply business.
Sunoco's shares jumped as much as 24 percent to $29.50 on Thursday - their biggest intraday percentage rise in three years.
As part of the deal, the U.S. company will also supply about 2.2 billion gallons of fuel annually for 15 years to a unit of the operator of 7-Eleven chain of convenience stores.
Sunoco, a publicly-traded partnership controlled by pipeline operator Energy Transfer Equity, operates about 1,350 retail fuelling sites and convenience stores under brands such as APlus and Stripes, the company's website showed.
The company said it planned to sell another 200 stores by the end of the fourth quarter and expand its distribution business, partly through acquisitions.
Energy Transfer's chief financial officer, Thomas Long, said there are no plans to dissolve the partnership.
Energy Transfer wants Sunoco to remain a standalone business and continue on the M&A front to expand its business, Long said. "That is very much the directive."
Sunoco said it expected to use the proceeds from the sale primarily to repay debt, which was about $4.51 billion as of December.
7-ELEVEN'S U.S. PUSH
Seven & i Holdings has been aggressively expanding in Japan and the United States, where it has been acquiring stores from local retailers.
Its latest purchase comes as operators of traditional big-box retailers, including Seven & i, have been suffering weak sales as changing tastes and modest wage growth prompt shoppers to defect to cheaper speciality chains and online outlets.
"The U.S. convenience store market has growth momentum. We see opportunities there," Seven & i President Ryuichi Isaka said.
Seven & i runs general merchandise, department and speciality stores, but the bulk of its operating profit comes from convenience stores.
The deal would be the biggest by the Japanese company's U.S. unit 7-Eleven Inc.
Seven & i has about 19,400 7-Eleven stores in Japan and 8,700 in the United States and Canada, including those run by franchisees.
7-Eleven Inc, known for its "Slurpee" frozen beverage, has said it aims to increase its number of stores to 10,000 over the three years through 2019.
(Reporting by Taiga Uranaka; Additional reporting by Ritsuko Shimizu, Chris Gallagher and Gary McWilliams; Editing by Christopher Cushing, Martina D'Couto, Saumyadeb Chakrabarty and Anil D'Silva)

Gateway Casinos in talks for C$500 mln Vancouver sale-leaseback deal
TORONTO, June 14 Canadian gaming company Gateway Casinos & Entertainment Ltd is in talks with Asia and North America investors for a sale-lease-back agreement for up to three Vancouver properties worth over C$500 million ($378 million), top company executives told Reuters.


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Question: ‘I forgive you’: Daughter of Facebook killing victim calls for suspect to surrender

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CLEVELAND -- The children of a 74-year-old man gunned down on his way home from an Easter meal have a message for his suspected killer, who is now the target of a nationwide manhunt.
Steve Stephens, 37, is wanted for aggravated murder after he allegedly shot Robert Godwin Sr. Sunday afternoon – then posted a video of the homicide on Facebook, according to Cleveland police.
Tonya Godwin-Baines, one of Godwin's daughters, said the family is absolutely devastated and is calling for Stephens to turn himself in.
"To the young man who murdered my daddy, I ask that you please surrender," Godwin-Baines said. "I forgive you, and love you but most importantly, God loves you. God can heal your mind and save your soul. Please!"
Godwin was the father of 10 children -- six girls and four boys.
Godwin's children say the reason they are able to forgive Stephens is because of their father, who took them to church every Sunday, and always stressed the importance of forgiveness.
Robert Godwin Jr. said the woman who Stephens blames in the Facebook video is also in the family's thoughts and prayers. "We know it is not her fault. She should not feel like it's her fault."
Godwin Sr.'s children described him as a wonderful person who loved his family, and said they want their father to be remembered for the good he did in his life, not for the horrific video.
"If you do watch it, it should make you want to change," Godwin Jr. said. The family is asking people not to share the disturbing footage, but, for those who do, Godwin Jr. asked that they "take something from it."
There is now a $50,000 reward for information leading to the Stephens' arrest. The FBI, Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and U.S. Marshals provided the money for the reward.
Anyone with information about the suspect's whereabouts should call 1-800-CALL-FBI. If you see Stephens, do not approach. He is considered armed and dangerous.

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Prince kept dozens of prescription painkillers stashed in various rooms in his house, it emerged on Monday, as police continue their investigation into how the singer obtained the powerful opioid fentanyl that killed him.
Some of the pills were disguised in over-the-counter bottles for aspirin or vitamins. Others were labelled with prescriptions made out in the name of his aide, Kirk Johnson.
The bottles were found in his bedroom, dressing room and laundry, after the singer was found dead in the lift of his Minnesota home, Paisley Park.
Coroners said that the cause of the 57-year-old’s death, on April 21 last year, was an overdose of fentanyl, which is often used to manufacture counterfeit pills sold on the black market as oxycodone and other pain relievers. Prince, a Jehovah’s Witness, was famously clean living but suffered from a long-term hip complaint.

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Question: Trump administration open to additional strikes on Syria - White House

White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer holds the daily press briefing at the White House in Washington, U.S. March 30, 2017. REUTERS/Jonathan Ernst
WASHINGTON U.S. President Donald Trump is open to authorizing additional strikes on Syria if its government uses chemical weapons again or deploys barrel bombs in the country, the White House said on Monday.
"The sight of people being gassed and blown away by barrel bombs ensures that if we see this kind of action again, we hold open the possibility of future action," White House spokesman Sean Spicer told reporters.
"If you gas a baby, if you put a barrel bomb in to innocent people ... you will see a response from this president."
Barrel bombs are oil drums or cylinders packed with explosives and shrapnel.
Trump ordered a cruise missile strike on Syria's Shayrat air base last week in response to what his administration and U.S. allies say was a poison gas attack by Syria's military in which scores of civilians, including many children, died.
Spicer said later his mention of barrel bombs as a potential trigger for further action by the United States did not reflect a change in position.
"Nothing has changed in our posture," he said by email.
"The president retains the option to act in Syria against the Assad regime whenever it is in the national interest, as was determined following that government's use of chemical weapons against its own citizens. And as the president has repeatedly made clear, he will not be telegraphing his military responses."
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Heather Heyer was killed in Charlottesville, Va., this Saturday when a car plowed into a crowd that was protesting the white nationalist rally. Those who knew Heyer—including her parents and her boss —describe the 32-year-old as someone who cared passionately about the plight of the disenfranchised and was dedicated to doing her part to make the world a better, fairer place. "No mother wants to lose a child, but I’m proud of her,” Heyer\'s mother, Susan Bro, told the HuffPost . “I’m proud of what she did.” She was attending the protest with coworkers from the law firm where she worked as a paralegal when she was struck and by the car that James Alex Fields Jr. drove into the crowd. Fields has been charged with second-degree murder, three counts of malicious wounding and failing to stop at the scene of a crash that resulted in a death. 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Question: Peru authorities order arrest of two suspects in B.C. man’s killing

On Monday, officials backed away from reports that he was the principal suspect.
Canadian Sebastian Woodroffe who travelled to Peru to study hallucinogenic medicine was killed by a mob in a remote corner of the Amazon rain forest. Facebook photo
Peru’s attorney general has ordered the arrest of two suspects in the killing of a Vancouver Island man who travelled to the Amazon rainforest to study hallucinogenic medicine, officials said Monday.
Authorities said over the weekend that a mob dragged Sebastian Woodroffe by the neck to his death shortly after people accused him of killing Olivia Arevalo, an octogenarian plant healer from the Shipibo-Konibo tribe of northeastern Peru.
Prosecutors said Monday the two suspects were identified in a video shot on a cellphone showing the moment Woodroffe, who was 41, was killed last week.
Officials said forensic experts were studying Woodroffe’s body to determine whether he had any involvement in Arevalo’s killing, as was initially suggested. On Monday, officials backed away from reports that he was the principal suspect.
Arevalo and Woodroffe were both killed Thursday in the Indigenous community of Victoria Gracia, officials said. But police did not begin to investigate until a cellphone video appeared in local media showing a man purported to be Woodroffe begging for mercy while being dragged between thatch-roofed homes. He was then left motionless on the muddy ground.
On Saturday, officials dug up Woodroffe’s body from an unmarked grave where he had been hastily buried.
Global Affairs Canada spokeswoman Brianne Maxwell said Monday the department was aware of the case and had been in touch with the man’s family and Peruvian officials but no further information would be provided due to privacy concerns.
Every year thousands of foreign tourists travel to the Peruvian Amazon to experiment with ayahuasca — a bitter, dark-coloured brew made of a mixture of native plants.
The hallucinogenic cocktail, also known as yage, has been venerated for centuries by indigenous tribes in Brazil, Peru, Ecuador and Colombia as a cure for all sorts of ailments. It’s also increasingly consumed by Western tourists looking for mind-altering experiences, sometimes with deadly consequences.
Arevalo was a staunch defender of Indigenous people’s rights in the region. She also practised a traditional form of singing medicine that the Shipibo believe removes negative energies from individuals.
Woodroffe, who was from Cumberland on Vancouver Island, said before going to Peru that he hoped an apprenticeship with a plant healer from the Shipibo tribe would help his goal of changing careers to become an addiction counsellor using hallucinogenic medicine.
“A recent family intervention for a relative with an alcohol addiction has opened my eyes to what I should be doing for work,” he wrote on the Indiegogo crowd-funding website seeking financial help to advance his studies.
“The plant medicine I have the opportunity of learning is far deeper than ingesting a plant and being healed. It is not about getting ‘high’ either. It is true some of the plants I will be learning about do have a perception-altering effect, but these are a few plants out of thousands I will be working with,” he said.
Friends of Woodroffe have posted messages of condolences on social media pages, and Woodroffe’s Facebook profile has changed to ‘Remembering Sebastian Woodroffe.’
Yarrow Willard, a close friend of Woodroffe, said in a Facebook message he was a loving father and kind man, “who was not capable of the crimes he was accused of.”
Friend Brodie Dawson echoed Willard’s statement.
“(Sebastian) was well-loved in the community and he was a sweet and loving person, and … this was very out of character for him,” she noted.
-With files from Erin Haluschak

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Question: Taylor Swift Performs ‘Reputation’ Tracks During Six-Song Set

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Taylor Swift has kept a relatively low profile while her sixth studio album Reputation tops the charts and her fans gobble up a holiday helping of confessional new music. Over the weekend, however, Swift made an exception by performing at the Jingle Bell Ball in London.
Related: Taylor Swift Pens New Poem ‘The Trick to Holding On’
Her headlining set included a combination of hits from 1989 and Reputation including “Blank Space” and “Shake It Off” from the former. From the latter, Taylor performed “Gorgeous,” “Look What You Made Me Do” and “…Ready For It?” For good measure, Swift threw in a solo rendition of her duet with Zayn Malik: “I Don’t Wanna Live Forever.”
The performance followed almost a month after her November 11 appearance on Saturday Night Live. Other acts at the Jingle Bell Ball included Ed Sheeran and Liam Payne.
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Provided: "['represent this text to find a news title for it!', 'Here is our guide of the best comic book and games stores in the region.\nThat Comic Shop, Preston\nInfinity Comics\nThat Comic Shop, in Friargate, Preston, has recently celebrated its 10th anniversary. The store receives a delivery of new comics every week, including Marvel, DC and other independent publishers. It stocks Magic the Gathering Card games and holds weekly Friday Magic fun nights, as well as regular Magic drafts, pre-release tournaments and friendly games in store. Players are welcome at anytime to have a friendly game in store with drinks and snacks. The store also has a large choice of trade paper backs, magazines, novels, t-shirts, action figures, keyrings, mugs, glasses, stickers, badges and free posters. The owner, Noel Corless, holds regular bake sales to raise money for different causes.\nFirst Age Comics, Lancaster\nLocated in Moor Lane, Lancaster, First Age Comics stocks comics and graphic novels from major publishers such as DC, Marvel, Dark Horse, IDW and Image. It also supports material from independent publishers, small press and local creators.\nIn addition to a plentiful back issue section with comics dating from the 1960s onwards, there is also a good selection of action figures, toys, games, as well as film and TV merchandise.\nThe store, which has been running for 10 years, is open Tuesday to Saturday from 10am until 5pm.\nInfinity Comics, Blackpool\nConnor Mitchel took over the former Thunderbooks, in Lytham Road, late last year and relaunched Infinity Comics. It stocks all the latest comics, as well as related memorabilia. It is open Wednesday to Sunday.\nBat Cave, Blackburn\nBat Cave, in Lower Cockcroft, Blackburn, stocks comics, graphic novels, Games Workshop, Magic The Gathering, memorabilia, Pop figures and lots more.\nIt is open Monday to Saturday 10.30am until 5.30pm. It also hosts a variety of events.\nWallpaper Supplies, Wigan\nWallpaper Supplies, in Library Street, Wigan, may well be a home decor shop, but located deep within its walls lies a comic store.\nIt has new releases delivered every week, selling toys, action figures from Marvel Legends and Universe, statues, Manga books, Heroclix and comics.\nIt also has one of the largest stocks of graphic novels.\nThe store is open seven days a week.']" Match: "['Represent this title to get a news article that provides more details about it', 'Lancashire recommends.... comic book stores']"

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The Brazilian Post, Correios, is preparing a large deployment of mobile devices to nearly 60.000 staff nationwide.
Correios will be launching a procurement exercise that will resume the smartphone rollout that started back in 2013 to parcel delivery staff.
With the new deployment, 58.679 devices will be purchased to be used by all postal delivery personnel and the government-owned postal service expects to spend R$63.9m ($16.3m) in the hardware purchase alone.
The devices that are already in use by parcel delivery staff at the Brazilian Post are supplied by Claro/Embratel, companies owned by Mexican telco giant América Móvil.
The requirements for the devices are rather basic: the smartphones should be Android-based (version 4.3 and up), with 4,3-inch screens at least, 3G connectivity, 1GB RAM and internal memory of 8GB, as well as USB ports Bluetooth, GPS and Wi-Fi capability.
According to the tender, products manufactured in Brazil will take preference, according to the Informatics Law.

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For example, ['Represent this text to find a news title for it', 'In this Sunday, Dec. 10, 2017 photo released by Santa Barbara County Fire Department, a home burns early Sunday morning off Gobernador Canyon Road in Carpinteria, Calif. A flare-up on the western edge of Southern California’s largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through canyons and down hillsides toward coastal towns. Crews with help from water-dropping aircraft saved several homes as unpredictable gusts sent the blaze churning deeper into foothill areas northwest of Los Angeles that haven’t burned in decades. New evacuations were ordered in Carpinteria, a seaside city in Santa Barbara County that has been under fire threat for days. (Mike Eliason/Santa Barbara County Fire Department via AP)\nLOS ANGELES >> A powerful flare-up on the western edge of Southern California’s largest and most destructive wildfire sent residents fleeing Sunday, as wind-fanned flames churned through old-growth brush in canyons and along hillsides toward coastal towns.\nCrews with help from a fleet of water-dropping planes and helicopters saved homes as unpredictable gusts sent the blaze deeper into residential foothill areas northwest of Los Angeles that haven’t burned in decades. New evacuations were ordered as the fire sent up an enormous plume near Montecito and Carpinteria, seaside areas in Santa Barbara County that had been under fire threat for days and were now choked with smoke.\n“The winds are kind of squirrely right now,” said county fire spokesman Mike Eliason. “Some places the smoke is going straight up in the air, and others it’s blowing sideways. Depends on what canyon we’re in.”\nThe blaze had consumed more than 230,000 acres and was 10 percent contained, down from 15 percent, as of Sunday evening, according to Cal Fire.\nThe containment number decreased from 15 percent not because of a lack of progress, but because of the fire’s growth, said Santa Barbara County Sheriff Bill Brown.\nVentura County fire behavioral analyst Brendan Ripley said he believes the fire is the fifth largest in California’s history.\nMore than 30,000 people are under mandatory evacuation orders.\nAuthorities warned residents at a community meeting Sunday in Santa Barbara not to ignore evacuation orders.\n“This fire has acted in an unpredictable manner; it has been very rapidly moving, and it’s going to be a multi-day event so please do what you can now to prepare to evacuate either yourselves and your family members and get them out of harm’s way if it’s necessary,” Brown said at the Sunday meeting.\n“There is a lot of anxiety out there, there’s a lot of visible flame, particularly in the Carpinteria area tonight,” Brown added. “This is a menacing fire certainly, but we have a lot of people who are working very diligently to bring this fire under control and some of the finest fire service and law enforcement professionals that there are, are working on this fire together.”\nThe department posted a photo of one residence engulfed in flames. It’s unclear whether other structures burned. Thousands of homes and businesses in the county were without power.\nAdvertisement\nThe air thick with acrid smoke, even residents of areas not under evacuation orders took the opportunity to leave, fearing another shutdown of U.S. 101, a key coastal highway that was closed intermittently last week. Officials handed out masks to residents who stayed behind in Montecito, the wealthy hillside enclave that’s home to celebrities such as Oprah Winfrey, Jeff Bridges and Rob Lowe.\n“Our house is under threat of being burned,” Ellen DeGeneres tweeted at midday Sunday. “We just had to evacuate our pets. I’m praying for everyone in our community and thankful to all the incredible firefighters.”\nA few miles to the west, the Santa Barbara Zoo was closed to the public and its 500 animals confined to their night quarters all day. 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CHICAGO (AP) — Children with a rare, incurable disease that causes rapid aging and early death may live longer if treated with an experimental drug first developed for cancer patients, a study suggests.
The small, preliminary study isn't proof the drug works and it found only a small benefit: Treated children with the disease progeria were more likely than others to survive during the two-year study. But some kids taking the drug in this and other studies have lived into their late teens. Researchers and others say the results suggest a potential breakthrough for a heartbreaking condition that typically kills kids before they reach adulthood.
"Anything we can do to try to provide them hope of a longer life is well worth doing and well worth celebrating," said Dr. Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, who was not part of the new study. A geneticist, Collins led laboratory experiments that in 2003 identified the genetic basis for the disease, formally known as Hutchinson-Gilford progeria.
Among 27 children with progeria who got the drug lonafarnib, one died during the 2007-2010 study. That's compared with nine of 27 untreated children with the disease. Thirteen of the treated children are still alive; most began taking other experimental drugs too.
"For the first time ever we have a drug that is shown to extend lifespan for children with progeria," said lead author Dr. Leslie Gordon of Brown University. Her son was a study participant and died in 2014 at age 17.
The results were published Tuesday in the Journal of the American Medical Association.
The study, conducted at Boston Children's Hospital, was unusually designed, comparing children given the drug with other progeria patients worldwide who weren't enrolled in the study. The untreated kids were matched as closely as possible with study participants by age, gender and other characteristics, but they weren't a standard control group and didn't receive dummy medication.
That design weakens the study conclusions, said Dr. Howard Worman, a Columbia University biologist. "You really cannot say anything 'worked' without a contemporary placebo control."
The children in the study were also involved in earlier research testing the same drug combined with two others. Within a period of about five years, survival was extended by about 19 months. It wasn't clear if all three drugs or just one or two of them contributed to the improvement. Lonafarnib also appeared to reduce blood vessel damage.
Average life expectancy for progeria children is about 14 years. Though many die younger, usually from heart attacks or strokes, some lonafarnib-treated kids have lived to their late teens.
For parents, who want to see their children grow up, that sliver of extra time is a bittersweet blessing.
"If you're a mom and you're told that life expectancy is 13 years, that 1.6 years is gold," said Heather Unsinger. Her 7-year-old daughter, Carly, was a study participant and has been taking lonafarnib since age 3. "But it's really hard to jump up and down."
Affected children are typically small, bald and fragile-looking but intellectually normal. Carly "has full-throttle dreams" and envisions becoming an art teacher one day, her mom said.
Other kids "always think I'm a baby," Carly said. But "I'm a regular kid."
Progeria is caused by a mutation in a gene that regulates production of a protein that helps shape and support the nucleus of cells throughout the body. In normal aging, the protein accumulates in cells but in children with progeria, an abnormal buildup occurs that severely damages cells. Lonafarnib helps block that abnormal buildup.
The disease affects about 1 in 20 million people. It is a chance mutation and isn't inherited. Affected children are born looking healthy, but fail to grow normally, lose body fat and hair and develop aged-looking skin, stiff joints and diseased arteries.
Lonafarnib was initially developed as a potential cancer treatment but without much success. Schering Plough/Merck supplied the study drug; the research was paid for by the Progeria Research Foundation.
Gordon, the lead author, and her husband, Dr. Scott Berns, started the foundation in 1999 after their son, Sam, was diagnosed. She is continuing to study lonafarnib and other drugs in kids with progeria.
University of Washington geneticist Dr. Fuki Hisama predicted that lonafarnib will eventually become standard treatment for progeria, though not a cure.
The study "gives other people the message that there is hope for rare diseases," said Hisama, who wrote an accompanying journal editorial.
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Boys, who have an X and a Y, only have the mutated gene, which generally results in their death either in utero or shortly after they are born. There is currently no treatment or cure.
Henry has Rett syndrome, which is extremely rare in boys. Courtesy Richard Engel
Engel's son, Henry, is alive because his mutation isn’t severe enough to kill him, although it has affected the toddler's cognitive and motor skills. The protein produced by his cells is somewhat functional, albeit at lower levels than optimal.
“In Henry’s case, it doesn’t totally inactivate the protein,” said Dr. Huda Zoghbi, one of Henry’s doctors and the discoverer of the gene for Rett. “But it’s not functioning fully and not at 100 percent at normal level.”
Engel and his wife, Mary Forrest, knew early on that something wasn't right with their son, Henry. Even as the boy approached the second year of his life, he couldn’t talk or clap his hands. He also couldn't walk or even sit up straight, Engel told TODAY on Tuesday.
“It was a mystery and we thought, ‘Okay, well, there are late bloomers,’” Engel said.
Children who have Rett syndrome develop normally at first but they start to show a variety of neurological problems during the first year. Courtesy Richard Engel
The MeCP2 protein, it turns out, is very important for building connections in the brain, said Dr. Jeffrey Neul, a Rett specialist and a professor of pediatrics and director of the Vanderbilt Kennedy Center at the Vanderbilt University Medical Center. “This gene works inside the nucleus — the control center — of the cell,” Neul said. “It’s controlling what other genes and proteins are made within the cell in response to stimuli.”
Without enough functional protein, the brain can’t cement connections that are built when a person acquires new abilities, such as walking and talking.
There may be a potential for actually making things better or even significantly reversing the disease. Now the challenge is figuring out how you do that. There may be a potential for actually making things better or even significantly reversing the disease. Now the challenge is figuring out how you do that.
Henry has offered researchers a window on the disease and made it easier to study because every single cell in his body has the mutated gene, said Zoghbi, an investigator at the Howard Hughes Medical Institute and a professor and director of the Texas Children’s Duncan Neurological Research Institute at Baylor College of Medicine.
Fortunately, the disease doesn’t kill brain cells. So if a way can be found to boost levels of the protein or correct the actual gene, people with the disease would be able to start learning everything they couldn’t before treatment. And this might result in a complete cure, especially in children.
Dr. Huda Zoghbi https://t.co/gr65xO8GSk and her team discovered the origin of RETT Syndrome, now with Henry’s help she wants to beat it. Go Huda! pic.twitter.com/FAGo1CrrVP — Richard Engel (@RichardEngel) January 30, 2018
The most promising evidence for that comes from animal studies, Neul said. Using a mouse model that allowed the gene to be turned off and on, researchers showed that when the gene wasn’t working, the mice developed Rett-like symptoms. When the gene was turned back on, the mice got better, Neul said.
“That told us where to go,” he added. “And that there may be a potential for actually making things better or even significantly reversing the disease. Now the challenge is figuring out how you do that. That initial work gave us a lot of hope.”
Researchers are using Henry's cells with hopes of finding a key to treatment. Courtesy Richard Engel
Some groups are working on a treatment that would help girls, by turning on the working copy of the gene in cells currently running with the dysfunctional one, said neurologist Dr. David Lieberman, director of the Rett Clinic at Harvard Medical School’s Boston Children’s Hospital. Another group is looking at the possibility of using gene therapy to deliver normal copies of the gene to cells in the brain, Lieberman said.
“There’s one caveat with gene therapy,” Lieberman said. “There exists another disorder, described first by Huda Zoghbi, if there are too many copies of the MeCP2 gene. So you have to be able to adjust the protein level so there’s enough, but not too much.”
While a cure isn’t likely to happen soon, “I think we’re on the right path,” Zoghbi said. “I think the technology, and the genetic approaches, and everything that’s available, empowers us. It’s hard to say we’re close. We’re just starting. We have to do the work.”
Linda Carroll is a regular contributor to NBCNews.com and TODAY.com


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Question: UMB receives Corporate Bank of the Year Award, Ghana

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Universal Merchant Bank(UMB)
The UMB has been presented with the prestigious Global Banking and Finance Award in London by The European for outstanding achievement in corporate banking in Ghana.
For the second consecutive year, the financial magazine, The European, named UMB as the Corporate Bank of the Year in Ghana.
A statement issued by the UMB and copied to the Ghana News Agency said UMB came out tops in the Corporate Bank of the Year category amid firm competition.
It said a high-level delegation from UMB was in London, United Kingdom to participate in a number of events.
It said the Bank’s delegation was led by the Chief Executive Officer, Mr John Awuah accompanied by Director, Consumer and Business Banking, Mr Kevin Cain; Director, Treasury, Mr Kevin Adarkwah; and Director Marketing and Communications, Ms Yvonne Botchey.
It said they were in London to participate in the UK Ghana Investment Summit, honour a BBC interview on Focus on Africa and then receive the Global Banking and Finance Award for 2018 Corporate Bank of the Year Ghana.
It noted that Mr Awuah was invited to the UK Ghana Investment Summit organised by the UK Ghana Chamber of Commerce to participate in a panel discussion on the topic: Trade and Industrialisation.
The statement said the Summit was attended by the President, Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo together with several government functionaries as well as stakeholders from the business community.
It noted that Mr Awuah, receiving the award plaque stated that, “UMB aims to deliver the best services, innovative products and ace customer experiences.
“The award demonstrates our consistent commitment to providing our clients with holistic banking solutions in Ghana”.
He added that “we are grateful that our efforts have been recognized by our clients and we will continue to exceed their expectations.”
On the sidelines, BBC invited Mr Awuah to speak on Focus on Africa to provide insight on Ghana’s banking industry as well as to comment on UMB’s impressive performance and plans for the future.
UMB is a full-service financial institution specializing in customized banking products and services.
UMB, formally known as the Universal Merchant Bank, opened on March 15, 1972 and is a leading Ghanaian indigenous bank with considerable financial expertise.
UMB is recognised for its entrepreneurial approach, innovative use of technology, and distinctive banking solutions.
It currently has 36 branches, three UMB Centres for Businesses, one UMB Public Private Partnership (PPP) Incubator Centre and a vast network of ATMs.

The Business Assistance Center , an Oak Cliff, Texas-based nonprofit, has been awarded a $21,000 grant through the Partnership Grant Program from the Federal Home Loan Bank of Dallas and FHLB Dallas member institution, Comerica Bank. The grant was presented to BAC at a ceremonious check presentation today in Dallas.
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BOSTON (AP) — District attorneys in Massachusetts are facing a key deadline as they continue to deal with the damage caused by the misconduct of a former state drug lab chemist.
The state’s highest court ordered the DAs to produce lists by Tuesday indicating how many of the approximately 24,000 tainted cases they would not or could not prosecute if new trials were ordered. Those cases would be dismissed.
Annie Dookhan pleaded guilty to tampering with evidence and falsifying thousands of tests in criminal drug cases, calling into question evidence used to prosecute the defendants.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts estimates some 20,000 cases will be thrown out, which the group says could make it the largest mass dismissal of criminal convictions in U.S. history.
Dookhan served three years in prison.

A DuPage County judge has rejected a request that details be kept under wraps in the case of a former Schaumburg police officer who confessed to operating a drug ring but now wants his conviction tossed out.
Matthew Hudak is seeking to have his 2014 guilty plea overturned after prosecutors abruptly dropped charges against another officer who was accused in the same scheme.
On Monday, Judge Liam Brennan declined to a request from Hudak’s attorney that new documents in the case be kept under seal. The judge, though, told Hudak attorney Thomas Glasgow that he would allow some private information to be kept under wraps in files that will otherwise be available to the public.
Glasgow filed a petition earlier this month seeking to reverse Hudak’s conviction, despite the fact that he admitted involvement in a scheme with two other officers to use an informant to sell drugs the officers confiscated.
In February, prosecutors suddenly announced that they were dropping the charges against John Cichy, one of the other officers who was arrested alongside Hudak. DuPage County State’s Attorney Robert Berlin later said that decision was made after prosecutors discovered that wrongdoing involving the informant — who would have been a main witness in the trial — had not been revealed to Cichy’s attorney.
Hudak’s attorney said in a court motion that prosecutors’ failure to disclose new allegations of criminal behavior by the informant hampered possible defenses for Hudak, including that the informant entrapped him.
But Glasgow said additional filings he’s planning in the case could disclose sensitive employment information of the prosecutor who reportedly withheld the information. So he asked to file it under seal. Brennan, though, did not agree.
“That’s not a concern of mine,” the judge said.
The case involving the former officers is of public interest, said Brennan, who said he wanted to keep as much information as possible accessible to the public. He told Glasgow to file a redacted copy of the motion by next week.
Hudak is serving a 26-year prison sentence. Another officer charged in the alleged drug ring, Terrance O’Brien, is serving a similar sentence. O’Brien’s attorney has said he’s also considering a potential challenge to that conviction.
Clifford Ward is a freelance reporter.
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The legal battle between Taylor Swift and former Denver country radio DJ David Mueller is over.
Related: Taylor Swift Takes Stand in Trial Vs Former Denver DJ
A jury ruled in Swift’s favor awarding her the symbolic $1 she was countersuing for, according to CNN.
In a statement Swift wrote:
I want to thank Judge William J. Martinez and the jury for their careful consideration, my attorneys Doug Baldridge, Danielle Foley, Jay Schaudies and Katie Wright for fighting for me and anyone who feels silenced by a sexual assault, and especially anyone who offered their support throughout this four-year ordeal and two-year long trial process.
I acknowledge the privilege that I benefit from in life, in society and in my ability to shoulder the enormous cost of defending myself in a trial like this. My hope is to help those whose voices should also be heard. Therefore, I will be making donations in the near future to multiple organizations that help sexual assault victims defend themselves.
The jury also found the singer’s mother, Andrea Swift, and manager Frank Bell not liable for tortious interference.

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Question: Delhi: Four teachers get showcause notice over poor pre-board exam results

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A day after Education Minister Manish Sisodia wrote a letter to the Education Director, asking her to initiate action on a case by case basis against teachers at schools where pass percentage in pre-board exam was “abysmally low”, four teachers of a government school have been issued showcause notices.
The Mathematics, Natural Science, History and English teachers, from the Government Boys Senior Secondary School, Bela Road, have been asked to explain within three days the reasons for poor performance.
Sisodia’s directions on Friday came after the poor performance of government school students in the pre-board exams, in which only 31.5 per cent of the 1,34,200 students managed to pass.
The letter, issued by the Deputy Director of Education, states, “It has been noticed, during the inspection and appraisal of the performance of teachers of Class IX, X and XII, that their performance has been poor since the pass percentage with respect to mid-term examination and periodic-II/pre-board in Class IX and X is quite low.”
The pass percentage in the New Delhi and central zone was 24.0% in the mid-term exams, and 35.4% in pre-board exam. At the Government Boys Senior Secondary School, the pass percentage of the pre-board exam was 2.53%. “The pass percentage has come down because mathematics has been made compulsory. Teachers have been working hard but there is problem on the students’ end as well; there is no practice. Our focus has been on completing the syllabus. In a few days, there will be a revision and we are confident our results will be fine,” said school vice-principal Mahendra Pal Singh.
Class X Boards are being re-introduced this year; in 2011, the Continuous and Comprehensive Evaluation scheme was brought in to reduce stress on students.
Sisodia reviewed the performance of students and asked the deputy director of education to prepare a list of the 10 worst-performing schools in each zone, as well as an action plan to ensure that performance in Board examinations is better.
The teachers have to explain in writing why suitable disciplinary action for “negligence, dereliction of duties and lack of devotion to your official duties may not be taken against you”.
However, Ajay Veer Yadav, general secretary of the Government School Teachers Association, said, “Poor performance of students is due to shortage of teachers, vision-less policy of government and lack of motivation among guest teachers. We will protest against it.”
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Harried over re-reading the syllabus and anxious whether they will match or improve their previous performance, about 600,000 class 12 CBSE students across the country will appear for their re-exam for economics paper on Wednesday. The exam, which was earlier cancelled by the CBSE after the question paper got leaked, will be conducted at 4,000 centres across the country. The board had exempted the foreign students from appearing for the exam again, since in its investigation, it did not find the leak to have impacted their results.
"About 600,000 students will appear for the exam on Wednesday at 4,000 centres," an official from the Central Board of Secondary Education said, adding that the board has taken some extra security measures for the conduct of the exam, which, for the sake of security, cannot be revealed.
The leak of the Class 10 maths and Class 12 economics question papers has affected lakhs of students across India. Unsurprisingly, there was uproar among students and parents and Congress president Rahul Gandhi mocked Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Twitter with a pun on the latter’s just launched book for examinees titled, Exam Warriors. There were also calls for removal of the CBSE Chairperson Anita Karwal and HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar, who sought suggestions from students at a hackathon to solve the paper leak.
Top 10 developments on CBSE Class 12 Economics paper re-exam; CBSE paper leak
1. CBSE issues guidelines to Class 12 Economics students: Students are hereby informed that certain social media networks and online news channel(s) are unnecessarily floating rumours that new Admit Cards will be issued by the Board for the exam tomorrow. It is hereby clarified that CBSE has already issued press release dated 30.03.2018 also available on the CBSE official website in conveying that: “The candidates will appear from the same allotted centres using the same admit card.” Students are advised to follow the instructions as displayed earlier as no change has been made in the arrangements already notified.
2. CBSE children tense over Class 12 Economics re-exams: Many students said they were a little worried, not on account of being ill-prepared but because of the possibility of a tougher question paper this time.
"It is very irritating to have to repeat the paper again. I am just as prepared for it as I was last time. But can't say if they set a tough question paper," said Srishti, a student of Tagore Senior Secondary School, Mayapuri.
"I am fully prepared and making sure to revise the question paper which came last time also. The only worry is that the question paper last time was very easy. I knew it all. It's not about just passing. I want to make sure that I better my previous performance," said Yatin of New Delhi Public School, Vikaspuri.
3. CBSE Class 12 Economics students fret over re-exam: A student from Tagore School, Manpreet, complained of having to accord time for this exam's revision, which he could have used to prepare for other competitive exams.
"One of my main worry is that I had done so well last time and the paper was easy. So there is some psychological pressure of course. And also, I could have spent this time on preparing for other entrance exams," he said.
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4. CBI questions CBSE official: On the eve of Class 12 economics paper re-test, police questioned the CBSE official who was suspended for laxity in supervising an examination centre in outer Delhi's Bawana area, from where the paper was leaked. Investigators say at least two modules were involved in leaking the CBSE question papers - other than the Class 12 economics paper, the mathematics paper of Class 10 had also surfaced online before the scheduled examination. Police busted the second module in Una town in Himachal Pradesh earlier this month. A woman was among the six persons arrested in connection with leaking the CBSE question papers. In the Bawana module, three persons, including two teachers of a private school, were involved. The teachers - Rishabh and Rohit - had taken photographs of the economics paper and sent it Tauqeer, who gives private tuitions. Tauqeer circulated the paper among his students about an hour before the examination commenced, police said, adding, he had received the paper via WhatsApp from Rishabh and Rohit.
ALSO READ: CBSE paper leak: Bank officials arrested on charges of criminal negligence
5. Delhi HC rejects plea to change date of CBSE Class 12 economics exam: The Delhi High Court last week dismissed a plea seeking to change the date of the re-examination of the Class 12 economics paper, which the CBSE has decided to conduct on April 25 after the paper was leaked. Apart from this, the court was hearing two different pleas related to the Central Board for Secondary Education (CBSE) Class 10 mathematics paper. While hearing one of the pleas by a group of students seeking re-test of Class 10 mathematics paper, the court asked the CBSE to submit the records relating to the board's decision not to conduct re-examination and listed the matter for April 20. The order came after the court was apprised by the CBSE's counsel that it has issued a notification that the Class 10 maths examination will not be re-conducted as it cannot afford to hold it again and make over 16 lakh students appear in it.
ALSO READ: CBSE Class 12 economics re-exam on April 25; CBSE Class 10 spared; updates
6. School teacher leaked CBSE papers to realise his dream of becoming principal: The Una-based teacher, Rakesh Kumar, allegedly involved in leaking CBSE Class 12 economics and Class 10 mathematics papers, harboured the ambition of becoming the principal of the school where he taught, and a relative had assured him she would get it done if he helped her get the papers, an official privy to the probe said.
The CBSE Class 10 mathematics question paper was leaked by Rakesh Kumar, an economics teacher at DAV Centenary School in Una in Himachal Pradesh, who was arrested last week along with two other employees of the school - Amit Sharma and Ashok Kumar - in connection with the economics paper leak. Police said there was no monetary transaction involved and Rakesh Kumar did it only to realise his dream.
Testing times Leaks: Economics paper for Class XII was leaked on March 23; exam was held on March 26; Class X maths paper was leaked hours before the exam on March 28 Arrests: Two teachers of a private school and a coaching centre owner in Delhi; student, coaching centre coordinators, school teacher and a former office-bearer of ABVP in Jharkhand; a teacher, clerk and support staff of a public school in Una, Himachal Pradesh, and a woman in Punjab What CBSE says: A high-powered committee headed by a former HRD secretary will suggest measures to make the process "secure and foolproof through the use of technology".
7. No CBSE Class 10 Maths re-test after scientific evaluation, CBSE told HC: The CBSE told the Delhi High Court that it decided not to hold re-examination of class 10 Maths test as a scientific evaluation of random answer sheets did not indicate any unusual pattern to believe that there was a widespread benefit of the alleged paper leak. The Central Board of Secondary Education made the submission in an affidavit in which it said it was not conducting the re-test for another reason -- class 10 is a gateway to class 11 and therefore "remains largely an internal segment of school education system".
ALSO READ: Six lakh CBSE students to give economics exam again on Wednesday
8. CBSE to re-conduct postponed exams in Punjab on April 27: The Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) will re-conduct Class 10th and 12th examinations on April 27. The examinations were cancelled earlier this month due to a Bharat bandh. In a statement issued on Tuesday, the board announced the new schedule for the exams that were originally scheduled for April 2. For Class Xth - French, Sanskrit and Urdu Course-B exams will be re-conducted while for Class XIIth Gujarati, Nepali, Kashmiri, Hindi- Elective and Core exams will be done.
9. No re-test for CBSE Class 10 students anywhere in India: The government on Tuesday said no re-examination of the Class 10 maths paper will be conducted anywhere in the country, bringing major relief to nearly two lakh CBSE Class 10 students in Delhi, NCR and Haryana. The decision was taken in the interest of Class 10 students who had already written their exams on March 28 but were told to sit again after it was learnt that the maths question paper had been leaked.
"Consequent to the preliminary evaluation of the impact of reportedly leaked CBSE Class 10 maths paper and keeping in mind the paramount interest of students, the CBSE has decided not to conduct re-examination even in Delhi, NCR ( Capital Region) and Haryana," said Human Resource Development Ministry Secretary Anil Swarup. Swarup had earlier announced that the Central Board of Secondary Examination (CBSE) may re-conduct the maths examination possibly in July for Delhi, its suburbs in NCR and Haryana. The decision has brought a major relief to over 16 lakh Class 10 students, including nearly two lakh from Delhi, NCR and Haryana.
10. What Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on CBSE Paper leak
Prime Minister Narendra Modi who conducted an interactive session, "Pariksha Par Charcha" with the "exam warriors" before the Board examinations, expressed his displeasure over the CBSE paper leak. He dialed the HRD Minister Prakash Javadekar to express unhappiness and demanded strict action against the perpetrators.


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American cable giant NBC is moving ahead with plans to air a feature interview of Alex Jones — the Texan conspiracy theorist whose paranoid fantasies of government plots have earned him influence in red state America, all the way up to Donald Trump’s White House.
The decision comes despite a growing advertiser boycott and demands that Jones be denied this prominent platform, especially from relatives of victims of the Sandy Hook massacre, which Jones has falsely called a hoax designed to restrict gun rights.
“You can’t just put him in a box and say he’s just a character,” said Nelba Márquez-Greene, whose daughter Ana Grace died at Sandy Hook. “He’s really hurting people.”
Even Chelsea Clinton, daughter of Hillary and Bill, pressured producers of Sunday Night with Megyn Kelly to scrap the show, tweeting: “There is no justification for amplifying lies (or a liar), particularly about unimaginable tragedy. I hope no parent, no person watches this.”
There is no justification for amplifying lies (or a liar), particularly about unimaginable tragedy. I hope no parent, no person watches this https://t.co/nSt1MGGM2U — Chelsea Clinton (@ChelseaClinton) June 12, 2017
Though it has so far failed, this effort to spike the interview makes Jones the most high-profile recent target of “no-platforming,” an activist strategy that originated in British student politics, but has found its most fertile ground in the American culture wars.
No-platforming has risen to prominence in the U.S. over the last year or so, thanks to episodes involving Milo Yiannopoulos and Ann Coulter, and several lesser-known controversial speakers, including the political scientist Charles Murray. Calls for this form of civil censorship have become so common and predictable that, for seasoned provocateurs, getting uninvited can seem like half the point of getting invited in the first place.
Those American cases followed similar disputes in the U.K. that initially focused on racist political candidates, but grew ever more narrow in focus, such that pioneering feminist Germaine Greer became a target for disagreeing with aspects of transgender identity politics, and longtime gay rights activist Peter Tatchell became a target for signing a letter in support of Greer.
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Usually, the disputes are about campus talks, where the considerations of free expression and inquiry are different than on the public airwaves.
“The purpose of the university is to engage with ideas,” said Darren L. Linvill, associate professor of communication at Clemson University in South Carolina. From the academic perspective, Jones is “just spouting things that he thought of in the shower. There’s no need to listen to him.”
But conspiracy theorists can be important news topics, as Trump himself illustrated with his pursuit of Barack Obama’s birth certificate.
“The purpose of a news show is to engage with issues important to the public, and (Jones) is certainly important to the public. The value I see in engaging with him is that his audience is growing. As his name becomes spoken more commonly, people are going to go seek him out and listen to him and I would much rather that the first time somebody listen to Alex Jones be in a pre-taped conversation with Megyn Kelly, where she has an opportunity to bring some level of reason, some level of accountability to the conversation and, you know, take apart his nonsense and his invalid arguments,” Linvill said. “Ultimately, I think it depends on what that interview looks like.”
“Everybody always has ulterior motives for being interviewed,” he added. “That’s the job of Megyn Kelly, NBC and the show editors, to make sure that it’s not just about Alex Jones, that it’s about Alex Jones’ ideas and where those ideas fall short on the fact test.”
But in the hyper-connected world of online media, where Jones thrives, there is a sense of hopelessness, Linvill said. The traditional liberal intellectual safeguard known as the “marketplace of ideas” appears to have failed, with Jones as a prime example. Here is a shameless fabulist with a huge following who has been granted White House press credentials, and even once interviewed Trump himself, before the election, in which Jones blithely accepted the future president’s false claim to have “predicted Osama bin Laden.”
“Your reputation is amazing,” Trump told Jones. “I will not let you down.”
Criticizing Jones only emboldens him, and so it is tempting to ignore him on principle, to no-platform him, to deny him the satisfaction and the clicks. This is the “signal boost” theory of journalism, a view that emphasizes the value of publicity for publicity’s sake, regardless how badly an interview subject might come off to an enlightened viewer. It involves a tacit assumption that a journalist’s role is to dole out attention to the worthy, ignore the unworthy, and police the borders of civil discourse.
Like the demand to ignore killers who are imagined to desire attention, this view can stigmatize curiosity, and confuse attention with approval. It also would have prevented some important reporting. Peter Bergen interviewed terrorist Osama bin Laden for CNN. Diane Sawyer interviewed murderer Charles Manson for ABC. Even Kelly herself interviewed Vladimir Putin the other week, although she has been criticized for letting him get the upper hand.
Jones is not in that league. He runs InfoWars.com and related shows on radio and YouTube. He is a conspiracist in the classic mould, fixated on fluoride, chemtrails, mind control, 9/11, the Moon landings, Bildergbergers and the New World Order. His schtick is to fit every new tragedy into a pre-determined narrative about false flag operations, delivered in a rapid-fire, frothing rant.
The Waco seige of 1993 was a formative episode for him, followed shortly by the Oklahoma City bombing, but his imagination reaches back to the Reichstag fire, the sinking of the Lusitania, Pearl Harbor, and the Kennedy assassination.
True to form, Jones has already called for the NBC interview to be cancelled because of dishonest editing and “misrepresenting my views on Sandy Hook.”
Every indication, however, is that NBC is sticking to its guns.
“As journalists it’s our job to interview newsmakers and people of influence no matter how abhorrent their views may be,” said Liz Cole, the show’s executive producer, to NBC News. “Megyn does a strong interview, we’re not just giving him a platform.”
Kelly has also responded, after she was removed as emcee of a Wednesday night gala for Sandy Hook Promise, which advocates for the prevention of gun violence.
“I find Alex Jones’s suggestion that Sandy Hook was ‘a hoax’ as personally revolting as every other rational person does,” she said in a statement. “It left me, and many other Americans, asking the very question that prompted this interview: how does Jones, who traffics in these outrageous conspiracy theories, have the respect of the president of the United States and a growing audience of millions?”
As Linvill put it: “Alex Jones is a story whether we like it or not.”
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At a recent pretrial hearing, Texas attorney Randall Wilhite told state District Judge Orlinda Naranjo that using his client Alex Jones’ on-air Infowars persona to evaluate Alex Jones as a father would be like judging Jack Nicholson in a custody dispute based on his performance as the Joker in “Batman.”
“He’s playing a character,” Wilhite said of Jones. “He is a performance artist.”
But in emotional testimony at the hearing, Kelly Jones, who is seeking to gain sole or joint custody of her three children with Alex Jones, portrayed the volcanic public figure as the real Alex Jones.
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“He’s not a stable person,” she said of the man with whom her 14-year-old son and 9- and 12-year-old daughters have lived since her 2015 divorce. “He says he wants to break Alec Baldwin’s neck. He wants J-Lo to get raped.
“I’m concerned that he is engaged in felonious behavior, threatening a member of Congress,” she said, referring to his recent comments about California Democrat Adam Schiff. “He broadcasts from home. The children are there, watching him broadcast.”
Beginning Monday, jury selection gets underway at the courthouse in Travis County, Texas that in the next two weeks will be asked to sort out whether there is a difference between the public and private Alex Jones, and whether, when it comes to his fitness as a parent, it matters.
For Naranjo, who has been the presiding judge of the 419th District Court since January 2006, it is about keeping her eyes, and the jury’s eyes, on the children.
“This case is not about Infowars, and I don’t want it to be about Infowars,” Naranjo told the top-shelf legal talent enlisted in Jones v. Jones at the last pretrial hearing Wednesday. “I am in control of this court, not your clients.”
But for Alex Jones, at the peak of his power and influence, what emerges from the art deco courthouse on Guadalupe Street might shape whether he comes to be seen by his faithful as more prophet or showman.
Alex Jones is an Austin original who, 21 years after he got his own show on Austin public access television, has become an unlikely popular and political force in the Donald Trump era, an ingenious and indefatigable conjurer of conspiracy theories about sinister global elites seeking to enslave the masses, who found, in Trump, a hero open to his shadowy narratives.
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“Alex Jones and his Infowars’ umbrella of radio shows, YouTube and Facebook broadcasts, Internet website and tweets turned out to be Trump’s secret weapon,” Roger Stone, probably Trump’s oldest and closest political confidant, wrote in his book “The Making of the President 2016.” “His fiery words have struck a chord in the nation and he speaks for millions. In fact, more people follow Alex than watch Fox News or CNN.”
In addition to broadcasting his radio show on some 150 stations, Infowars.com had 7.6 million global unique visitors between March 16 and April 14 according to Quantcast, which measures web audiences and ranked Infowars.com 387th among all U.S. websites, not far behind Texas.gov, MLB.com and PBS.org.
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